Viewing Guide: Land Biomes
Fill out the following viewing guide while watching the Land Biomes Brain Pop movie. Use the word bank below to help you select your answers.
Extinct / fertile / Tropical rainforests / Taigas / EvolvedChange / Altitude / People / Adapted / Deserts
Grasslands / Tundra / Interdependent / Temperate forests / 150
1. A biome is an ______system of plants, animals and land. Temperature, precipitation and ______all determine what kinds of plants and animals a biome can support.
2. There are thousands of species of plants and animals living on earth and they have each ______to become specially ______to their environments.
3. One biome, ______are found along the Earth’s equator. With over ______centimeters of rainfall each year, they are humid and hot.
4. ______have a rainy season and a dry season every year, but not many trees.
5. ______are found in areas of mid-latitude. They have moderate amounts of rain and four seasons each year. Oak and maple trees grow here and the soil is very ______.
6. ______get less than 10 centimeters of rain all year. They are hot all day and cold at night.
7. ______have cool summers and cold winters. The soil is rocky and evergreen trees grow here.
8. In the ______it is cold year round. The soil is always frozen, so not much can grow here besides lichen and moss.
9. Biomes have been around for thousands of years, but they do ______from time to time. North America, for example, was once covered by icy glaciers and then by a shallow sea. These changes take millions of years, however, so the plants and animals have time to adapt.
10. ______have changed all of that, though. Their actions can change a biome almost overnight, and without the proper habitat to support them, plants and animals can become ______.