www.mrnussbaum.com world biomes scavenger hunt

Directions: Use the interactive map on www.mrnussbaum.com/biomeflash.htm to answer the following questions.

1.) A desert receives less than ___________ inches of precipitation per year.

2.) This is the world's largest desert. _____________________

3.) A patch of vegetation that surrounds a spring or water source in the desert is called an ____________.

4.) What is the only continent that has no desert (Not Antarctica)? ___________________

5.) Most animals that live in the desert are ___________________, which means they hunt at night.

6.) This is the world's largest rainforest. __________________

7.) This layer of the rainforest filters out about 80 percent of the sunlight. _________________

8.) Name three products that come from the rainforest. ________________ , _________________,

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9.) Rainforests receive between _____________ and _______________ inches of rain per year.

10.) This northern biome is characterized by large evergreen forests. ___________________

11.) _______________ allow sunlight to reach the forest floor and new plants to grow in the Taiga belt.

12.) The tundra biome is characterized by a __________ growing season and by a frozen layer of subsoil called __________________.

13.) Many tundra animals have ______________ fur or coloring and thick layers of _________.

14.) Grasslands may be called ______________ in North America, _______________ in South America and Africa, and _______________ in Australia.

15.) __________________ grasslands are hot all year while ________________ grasslands are hot in the summer and cold in the winter.