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What is a biome?
Tundra Forest
An area of the planet that can be classified according to the plants and animals that live in it.
A place on earth
A biome is determined mostly by its climate
True
False
Climate is characterised by ____________ & ___________ over a period of time?
Weather & altitude
Day & night
Altitude and latitude
Temperature & precipitation
Which biome has vegetation limited to small shrubs, herbs, grasses, moss and lichen as its soil is frozen for most of the year resulting in short growing seasons when the ground thaws.
Forest
Tundra
Grassland
Desert
Which biome is typically closer to the equator?
Temperate Forest
Tundra
Grassland
Tropical Forest
What does "arid" mean?
wet
hot
dry
An area having relatively little precipitation due to the effect of a barrier, especially a mountain range, that causes the prevailing winds to lose their moisture on the windward side, causing the leeward side to be dry is referred to as what?
Rainfall effect
Altitude effect
Rainshadow effect
Cloud effect
On a climate graph, what depicts rainfall?
Column
Line
Meeting the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is known as what?
Unsustainable agriculture
Thoughtful agriculture
Sustainable agriculture
The amount of useful product gained from agriculture, expressed in relation to units of land, livestock, capital or labour applied, is known as what?
Yields
Crops
Products
Agriculture grown for profit that uses chemicals to improve productivity is what type of agriculture?
Subsistence
Commercial
Industrial
What type of agriculture produces the highest yields?
Subsistence
Commercial
Industrial
Farming techniques that use crop rotations, slash and burning of land is what type of agriculture?
Subsistence
Commercial
Industrial
Which are the BENEFITS of subsistence agriculture? Hint: there is more then one correct answer - click all that apply.
Releases stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
Uses no herbicides
Often large trees can be left
Slow regeneration of land
What percentage of packaged foods are estimated to contain Palm Oil?
10%
30%
50%
70%
What is an anomaly?
a deviation from the common rule or type
a similar occurrence
something that is normal
Predict the biome
Tundra
Tropical Rainforest
Temperate forest
Desert
What is a trend?
a general direction in which something is developing or changing.
A pattern
A fashion
All of the above
What is this an example of?
A colourful picture of Australia
A climate map
A choropleth map
A climate graph
The biome commonly found between the two tropics is?
Polar lands
Tundra
Tropical forest
Boreal forests
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