Biomes Quiz

What is a biome?

• A region with similar temperature and rainfall

• A region with different temperature and rainfall

• A small-scale ecosystem defined by the plants and animals

• A large-scale ecosystem defined by the plants, animals, and the climate

Which ocean zone is home to schools of fish and large numbers of algae?

• Near-shore zone

• Intertidal zone

• Open-ocean zone

• Deep-sea zone

What is the most productive ecosystem on earth?

• Taiga

• Desert

• Tundra

• Estuaries

What are the three factors that determine a biome?

• Animals, Plants, Climate

• Animals, Plants, Water temperature

• Plants, Climate, Amount of sunlight

• Amount of oxygen, Water temperature, Animals

Which biome has the greatest diversity of life?

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Desert

• Tropical rainforest

What is the region in which the yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and amount of sunlight are similar throughout.

• Climate Zone

• Interdital Zone

• Open-Ocean Zone

• Near-shore zone

The area at the shore where waves and tides reach.

• Intertidal zone

• Near-shore zone

• open-ocean zone

• Climate zone

Ocean life that lives in water and in sand lives here.

• Climate-Zone

• Intertidal Zone

• Near-shore zone

• Open-ocean Zone

The tide and churning water provide nutrients and oxygen for living things in this zone.

• Climate zone

• Open-ocean zone

• Intertidal zone

• Near-Shore zone

Area of very deep water where most organisms and plant organisms live at the surface. Water is dark and cold here.

• Near-shore zone

• Intertidal zone

• Open-ocean zone

• Climate zone