ChestertonCC - Geo - Whose Rainforest? - biomes

Biotic components of an ecosystem are _____.

• non-living

• living

Which of these is an abiotic component of an ecosystem?

• soil

• fish

• trees

• bacteria

A biome is a _____ scale ecosystem.

• large

• small

Distribution is how something is _____.

• located

• spread

• positioned

• shared

Biomes are distributed in _____ around Earth.

• belts

• clusters

• lines

• groups

Warmer biomes, like tropical rainforests and hot deserts, are distributed in belts near the Equator.

• True

• False

Colder biomes, like tundra and taiga, are distributed in belts near the _____.

• Equator

• Poles

The Poles are extremely cold because solar heat energy is spread out over a _____ area.

• small

• large

Solar heat energy is spread out at the Poles because of Earth's _____.

• curve

• spin

• sphere

• tilt

At the Equator, solar heat energy is concentrated in a _____ area.

• large

• small