Biome Scavenger Hunt Extra Credit

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Directions: Answer the following questions by looking on the linked website to find the answer. Write your answer to the right of each question. 1. What are the six major biomes of the world? Answer is: marines, freshwater, desert, forest, grassland, tundra What does the Finnish word “tunturia” mean? Answer is: treeless land 3. How many species of plants and animals live within the tropical rainforest? Answer is: 15 million 4. What are the four major types of deserts? Answer is: hot and dry, coastal, cold, semiarid 5. Name five different names for the grasslands within the world Answer is: prairies, pampas, savannas, steppes( I only found 4) 6. What six places are temperate (deciduous) forests found? Answer is: tree stratum, small tree or sapling layer, shrub layer, herb layer, ground layer 7. Another name for a coniferous forest is “Taiga”, what language does this come from? Answer is: the Russian name for the forest 8. What are the four different “zones” of the marine biome? Answer is: intertidal zone, pelagic zone, benthic zone, abyssal 9. How long is the longest river in the world? * Answer is: the Amazon river 10. Where is the “Chaparral” found in the world? Answer is: USA, south America, Australia, the Mediterranean 11. What is an “estuary”? Answer is: where the fresh water meets up with the salt water 12. What is the “canopy” in the tropical rain forest? Answer is: the roof 13.What is the deepest lake in the world, and where is it located? * Answer: is: Caspian sea it is located in Asia- Europe 14.What is “brackish water”? Answer is: a mixture of seawater and freshwater 15. How many inches of rain does the tropical rain forest receive? Answer is: 50 to 260 inches »»»»When you see an asterisk (*), next to the answers for number 9 and 13, make sure you look on the left hand side of the webpage for an

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