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Chapter 7 Organizer
Biodiversity and Climate Organizer
1. Illustrate how solar energy is distributed on the earth.
2. What are the effects of the rotation of the earth?
3. What is the difference between a high pressure system and a low pressure system?
4. Why do the currents in figure 7-5 behave the way they do?
5. Explain the rain shadow effect.
6. Give examples of where the rain shadow effect takes place.
7. Explain why the country of Greenland is mostly snow covered while areas of northern Canada (even further north than Greenland) are not snow covered?
8. How do latitude and altitude effect biomes?
9. What is your current altitude?
10. Choose one desert: discuss its characteristics, graph its precipitation and temperatures.
11. What are the three steps you would take to survive in the open desert if you had to?
12. Choose one grassland: discuss its characteristics, graph its precipitation and temperatures.
13. What are the ecological benefits of permafrost?
14. Choose one forest: discuss its characteristics, graph its precipitation and temperatures.
15. Discuss at least one ecological role of mountains.
16. Create a table of Major Human Impacts of Terrestrial Ecosystems and list at least two impacts for each biome. Choose one impact and discuss its importance.
17. What is natural capital degradation?
18. What are the three principles of sustainability?
19. Use the computer to go to (www.weather.com), choose Athens, GA – you must type in
the city – find the monthly icon and click on it, this will bring you to the current month’s data, then click on averages – the default should be monthly – be sure that all five boxes are checked (average high, average low, record high, record low and average precipitation). Use this information to answer the questions below.
· What is average yearly total precipitation?
· What is the highest precipitation month and amount?
· What is the lowest precipitation month and amount?
· What is the record high temperature and month?
· What is the record low temperature and month?
· What may be a limiting factor of this biome?
· What is the biome of this city?
20. Use the computer to go to (www.weather.com), choose any city in the US – you must type in
the city – find the monthly icon and click on it, this will bring you to the current month’s data, then click on averages – the default should be monthly – be sure that all five boxes are checked (average high, average low, record high, record low and average precipitation). Use this information to answer the questions below.
· What is average yearly total precipitation?
· What is the highest precipitation month and amount?
· What is the lowest precipitation month and amount?
· What is the record high temperature and month?
· What is the record low temperature and month?
· What may be a limiting factor of this biome?
· What is the biome of this city?
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