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Biome Project – an online write-in quiz

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To answer the following questions, use your Camp resources and also follow this link to the University of California at Berkeley

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/index.html

  1. What are the five principal biomes in the world ?

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  2. Those biomes have subdivisions. There are eight total in California – name them :

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  3. Which of those are part of California’s Backcountry ?

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  4. What are the two biomes in the world that most impact on our global environmental health ?

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  5. Does California’s Wilderness include plants and animals in these two biomes ?

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  6. Why are biomes important to understand ? Who do they affect ?

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  7. What is endangering these two biomes, on a global scale, today ?

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  8. What do you think is endangering them in California today ?

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  9. What proportion of the earth’s surface is desert ?

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  10. California’s deserts are of the Hot and Dry type. What types of plants live in the California desert wilderness ?

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  11. Where is the alpine tundra located ?

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  12. Is there tundra in the California Backcountry ?

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  13. What is it like on the tundra ?

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  14. Are there any trees on the tundra ?

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  15. What types of plants can survive on the tundra ?

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  16. What plants made up the first forests in the Paleozoic era (544-245 million years ago) ?

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  17. How much of the earth is currently forest ?

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  18. How much of the worlds leaf surface is made up of forests ?

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  19. What climate factor determines the type of forests in different areas of California ?

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  20. California’s Backcountry has temperate forests. What are the different types of temperate rainforests in California?

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  21. What type of forest is on the Sierra Nevadas ?

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  22. What type of forest is west of Mount Shasta towards to California coast ?

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  23. What type of forest is on the western side of the southern California coastal mountains and out on the Channel Islands ?

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  24. Are there any forests in the deserts of the world ?

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  25. How much of the earth’s surface is made up of water ?

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  26. What are the two types of aquatic environments ?

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  27. Streams and rivers support plant life. What part of a river supports the most plant life and why ?

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  28. What types of plants live in wetlands ?

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  29. If you were a tree for a year, what type would you chose to be and where would you live ?

 

30. If you were a flower for a month, what type would you be and where would you live ?