Land Biomes

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Date
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Chapter 22
Content Practice B
LESSON 1
Land Biomes
Directions: On each line, write the term from the word bank that correctly completes each sentence. Some terms
may be used more than once or not at all.
aquatic
biome
community
deciduous forest
deserts
ecosystem
grasslands
rain forest
taiga
temperate
tropical
tundra
1. The living and nonliving parts of an environment together make up
a(n)
.
2. A(n)
is a geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems
that have similar biotic and abiotic factors.
3. Forests that grow near the equator and receive large amounts of rain are
rain forests.
4. Regions of Earth between the tropics and the polar circles are
regions.
is a moist forest ecosystem.
6. A temperate
grows in a region where winter and summer
climates have more variation than climates in a temperate
.
7. Biomes that receive very little rain and are the driest ecosystems
are
.
8. Areas where grasses are the dominant plants are
.
9. A(n)
is a cold, dry, treeless biome located south of the
North Pole; it also exists in mountainous areas at high altitudes.
10. A(n)
is a forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing
evergreen trees.
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Biomes and Ecosystems
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5. A temperate