Animal and its Biome REPORT
BY:______DATE______
Biomes______Animal______
SCORE______/24
ON TOP OF THE WORLD(3) / NEARING THE TOP
(2) / MOVING ON UP
(1) / STUCK IN THE GROUND
(0)
ANIMAL EATS or its PREY / Names at least 5 or more things they eat / Names 4 things they eat / Names 2-3 things they eat / Names 0-1 things they eat
PREDATOR What eats it / Names at least 5 or more animals / Names 4 animals / Names 2-3 animals / Names 0-1 animal
HOW IT REPRODUCES
Asexual
Sexual / Names way it reproduces and explains it correctly / Names way it reproduces or explains reproduction / Names a way it reproduces but is wrong / Doesn’t name way it reproduces
ANIMALS DEFENSE / Name ways it defends itself and explains it correctly / Name ways it defends itself / Names a way it defends itself but is wrong / Doesn’t name way it defends itself
Describe your Biome including location, soil, climate, producers and consumers found in your biome / Includes 5/5
Location
Soil
Climate
Plants
animals / Includes 3-4/5
Location
Soil
Climate
Plants
animals / Includes 2/5
Location
Soil
Climate
Plants
animals / Includes 0-1/5
No idea what Biome it is
Location
Soil
Climate
Plants
animals
Biotic factors (living things) / Names 6 or more / Names 4-5 / Names 2-3 / Names 0-1
Abiotic factors
(nonliving) / Names 5 or more / Names 4-5 / Names 2-3 / Names 0-1
Sources / List 4 or more places found information:
Author
Copyright
www. web site / List 3 places found information:
Author
Copyright
www. web site / List 2 places found information:
Author
Copyright
www. web site / List 0-1 places found information:
Author
Copyright
www. web site
Every paragraph includes at least 4 sentences.
Making of an Actual Diorama
BY:______
DATE______
Biome______
SCORE______/12
ON TOP OF THE WORLD(3) / NEARING THE TOP
(2) / MOVING ON UP
(1) / STUCK IN THE GROUND
(0)
Things to Include in Biome should come from your report and poster / Things to Include in Biome should come from your report and poster / Things to Include in Biome should come from your report and poster / Things to Include in Biome should come from your report and poster / Things to Include in Biome should come from your report and poster
Make one poster that includes the items below / Make a poster that includes the items below / Make a poster that includes the items below / Make a poster that includes the items below / Make a poster that includes the items below
DRAWS A PICTURE of their animal / Neat, colorful and applies to their animal / Colorful and applies to their animal / Sloppy and colorful / Not colored, sloppy, and thrown together
Used pencil only
Food Chain on the one poster / Includes all the steps in food chain / Missing 1 step in food chain / Missing 2 -3 steps in food chain / Missing 4 or steps in food chain
Community on the one poster / 20 Biotic or Abiotic factors found in that environment:
List or draw / 15-19 Biotic or Abiotic factors found in that environment:
List or draw / 8-14 Biotic or Abiotic factors found in that environment:
List or draw / 0-7 Biotic or Abiotic factors found in that environment:
List or draw
Types of Biomes to make and research
· RAINFOREST TUNDRA TAIGA DESERT
· TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS MOUNTAINS
· RIVERS & STREAMS PONDS & LAKES WETLANDS
· SHORELINES TEMPERATE OCEANS TROPICAL OCEANS
What is a Biome?
A biome is a large area with similar flora, fauna, and microorganisms. Most of us are familiar with the tropical rainforests, tundra in the arctic regions, and the evergreen trees in the coniferous forests. Each of these large communities contain species that are adapted to its varying conditions of water, heat, and soil. For instance, polar bears thrive in the arctic while cactus plants have a thick skin to help preserve water in the hot desert. To learn more about each of the major biomes, click on the appropriate heading to the right.
What is an Ecosystem?
Most of us are confused when it comes to the words ecosystem and biome. What's the difference? There is a slight difference between the two words. An ecosystem is much smaller than a biome. Conversely, a biome can be thought of many similar ecosystems throughout the world grouped together. An ecosystem can be as large as the Sahara Desert, or as small as a puddle or vernal pool.
Ecosystems are dynamic interactions between plants, animals, and microorganisms and their environment working together as a functional unit. Ecosystems will fail if they do not remain in balance. No community can carry more organisms than its food, water, and shelter can accomodate. Food and territory are often balanced by natural phenomena such as fire, disease, and the number of predators. Each organism has its own niche, or role, to play.
A complete study of Earth's ecosystems includes learning about the non-living environment in which living things exist. The non-living parts of an organism's environment are called abiotic factors. Examples of abiotic factors include such things as air currents, temperature, moisture, light, and soil type.
Abiotic factors have large effects on living things and often determine which species of organisms will survive in a given area. For example, a lack of rainfall in an area will only allow drought tolerant plants and animals to survive. Continued drought would reduce the total amount of plant matter in the area, which would then reduce the number of plant-eating animals that could survive in the area.
Biotic Factors
Biotic, meaning of or related to life, are living factors. Plants, animals, fungi, protist and bacteria are all biotic or living factors.
Abiotic Factors
Abiotic, meaning not alive, are nonliving factors that affect living organisms. Environmental factors such habitat (pond, lake, ocean, desert, mountain) or weather such as temperature, cloud cover, rain, snow, hurricanes, etc. are abiotic factors.
A System
Biotic and abiotic factors combine to create a system or more precisely, an ecosystem. An ecosystem is a community of living and nonliving things considered as a unit.
The Impact of Changing Factors
If a single factor is changed, perhaps by pollution or natural phenomenon, the whole system could be altered. For example, humans can alter environments through farming or irrigating. While we usually cannot see what we are doing to various ecosytems, the impact is being felt all over. For example, acid rain in certain regions has resulted in the decline of fish population.