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Aquatic Ecosystems
Directions: Complete the A large region characterized by
question or task found on a specific type of climate and
each of the cards. Record certain types of plants and
your answers on the
answer sheet or on your
animals is known as a _____.
notebook paper as
directed by your teacher.
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Which biome is this?

List eight major biomes found
on Planet Earth. This is a cold biome that is
characterized by the presence
of permafrost.

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Which biome is this? Which biome is this?

This biome receives less than This biome has rich and fertile
ten inches of rain per year. The soil and is dominated by
inhabitants of this biome must grasses and herds of grazing
have adaptations for animals. It has cold winters
conserving water. and hot summers.
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Which biome is this? Which biome is this?

This biome receives abundant This biome has hot, dry

rainfall, has a year-round summers and cool, moist
growing season, and has the winters. It is dominated by
highest species richness dense, low-growing shrubs.
of any biome.
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Which biome is this? Which biome is this?

This biome is dominated by This biome is a tropical

coniferous forests (cone- grassland with alternating wet
bearing evergreen trees.) and dry seasons.
Winters are bitterly cold,
but summers are mild.
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Use Diagram 1 to answer this
Which biome is this? question.

This biome has four distinct The colors on this world map are
seasons. It is dominated by used to indicate the major terrestrial
trees that lose their leaves biomes of the world. Give the name
in the fall season. of each biome indicated by the
colored circles.
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Use Diagram 1 to answer this Use Diagram 1 to answer this question.

question.
Note that on the biome map there
appear to be sharp boundaries
What factors are used to distinguish
between each biome. How is this
one biome from another?
misleading? What would you
actually see at one of these
boundaries?
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List examples of plants and List examples of plants and

animals that live in a tundra animals that live in a tropical
biome. rainforest biome.

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List examples of plants and List examples of plants and

animals that live in a temperate animals that live in a taiga
deciduous forest biome. biome.

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List examples of plants and List examples of plants and

animals that live in a temperate animals that live in a savanna
grassland biome. biome.

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List examples of plants and List examples of plants and

animals that live in a animals that live in a desert
chaparral biome. biome.

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Use Diagram 2 to answer this Use Diagram 2 to answer this
question. question.

Which biomes are shown in the List two distinguishing

pictures labeled A, B, C, and D? characteristics of the biome
shown at letter A.

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Use Diagram 2 to answer this Use Diagram 2 to answer this
question. question.

List two distinguishing List two distinguishing

characteristics of the biome characteristics of the biome
shown at letter B. shown at letter C.
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Use Diagram 2 to answer this Use Diagram 3 to answer this

question. question.

List two distinguishing Which biomes are shown in the

characteristics of the biome pictures labeled E, F, G, and H?
shown at letter D.
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Use Diagram 3 to answer this Use Diagram 3 to answer this
question. question.

List two distinguishing List two distinguishing

characteristics of the biome characteristics of the biome
shown at letter E. shown at letter F.
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Use Diagram 3 to answer this Use Diagram 3 to answer this
question. question.

List two distinguishing List two distinguishing

characteristics of the biome characteristics of the biome
shown at letter G. shown at letter H.

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What name is given to the

Why are no trees found
permanent layer of frozen soil
growing in the tundra?
in the tundra?

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Why are the soil conditions In a tropical rainforest the

so poor in the tundra? treetops form a continuous
layer called a _____?

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In a tropical rainforest, some
plants must use other plants for What are coniferous trees?
support. These plants are not
parasitic because they do make
their own food.
These plants are called?
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Tropical rainforests are being

What are deciduous trees? destroyed at a rapid rate. What
effect will this have on carbon
dioxide levels in the atmosphere?
Explain your answer.

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Explain why there is a high Only small fragments of

risk of fire in a chaparral. undisturbed prairie are left.
Explain why.

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Animals that are active at night in

What special adaptations are order to avoid the heat of the day
seen in plants that live in are said to be _____.
desert biomes?

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List three reasons why A body of salt water is

marine ecosystems are approximately what percent
important to life on Earth. salt?

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A body of fresh water is Aquatic ecosystems are

approximately what percent often grouped or classified
salt? according to what factors?

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Use Diagram 4 to answer this Use Diagram 4 to answer this

question. question.

Label the ocean zones as Label the ocean zones as

indicated by letters A – D. indicated by letters E – H.

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Two vertical ocean zones are
determined by the amount of light The ocean is divided
they receive. The ___a___ zone is the horizontally into what three
part of the ocean that receives
zones?
sunlight, while the ___b___ zone is the
dark area too deep for sunlight to
penetrate.

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Productivity in this ocean zone is What name is given to the area

very low per square meter, but along ocean shorelines that is
total productivity is high because repeatedly covered and
this zone covers a vast area. uncovered by ocean tides?

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Which ocean zone is the most This zone extends horizontally

productive and contains more along the ocean floor from the
species and numbers of neritic zone through the open
organisms than any other zone? ocean.

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The organisms in this ocean This ocean zone is the largest.

zone must have adaptations that It begins at the edge of the
protect them from dehydration continental shelf and extends
and temperature changes. outward to the open sea.

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Hydrogen sulfide gas flows from

The water in this ocean zone is cracks in the ocean floor creating a
relatively shallow and extends very warm, and mineral-rich
outward over the continental environment for living organisms.
shelf. These are called ____.

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What two factors make the What factor is responsible for

neritic zone the richest and the low productivity in the
most productive zone? oceanic zone?

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Strong currents that bring Communities of small, free-

nutrients upward from the ocean floating organisms that live in
floor are called _______. both salt and fresh water are
called _______.

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List two types of plankton. Plant-like algae which are

producers in aquatic
ecosystems are called _______.

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Small, animal-like organisms What hardships are faced by

that are primary consumers living organisms that live in very
of phytoplankton are deep water?
called _______.

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Highly productive areas where

Freshwater ecosystems are
rivers and streams flow into the
divided into what two types?
ocean are known as _______.

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This process occurs when

What name is given to a lake
nutrients, especially phosphorus
that is clear and lacking in
and nitrogen, become highly
nutrients?
concentrated in a body of water.

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What name is given to a lake that Describe the rate of

is murky and rich in nutrients? photosynthesis in a eutrophic
lake.

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What name is given to an

Explain the dangerous condition ecosystem in which fresh water
that might occur in a eutrophic either covers the soil or is
lake at night. present at the soil surface for at
least part of the year?

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What is the name of the A freshwater wetland that is

freshwater wetland in which dominated by cattails, rushes
water accumulates in and other tall grasses is
depressions and is dominated called a _______.
by mosses?

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This freshwater wetland looks

like a flooded forest because it is
dominated by shrubs and trees.

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