Biome Coloring Book

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Biome Coloring Book

• Our Names are
• Period

Draw a small picture of Earth
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Directions

• 1. Use page 417 of the Biology book and color
  code the biomes of the world (pg3 of this guide)
• 2. Use page 418-428 of your book to draw pictures
  of each biome, describe average temperature and
  precipitation, abiotic factors, dominant plants,
  dominant wildlife, and geographic distribution
  (where you find the biomes).
• 3. Table 12-1 on pp. 418 may help you for all
  biomes rain and temp.

Grading rubric Points Possible
World Biomes Coloring is accurate     5
9 Biomes with a picture (2 pts each x9)   18
6 Information boxes (temp., factors wilflife, etc.) per biome (1 point each x 9)       54
Facts about each Biome (2 pts. Each x9) 18
Everything is neat, stapled together, has a picture on the front, and with names on it 5
Total 100
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World Biomes
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Nothing
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Tropical Rainforest

• Facts about this biome
• Average Temperature
• Average Precipitation
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw the biome below
5
Desert

• Facts about this biome
• Average Temperature
• Average Precipitation
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw the biome below
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Temperate Grassland

• Facts about this biome
• Average Temperature
• Average Precipitation
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw the biome below
7
Temperate Forest

• Facts about this biome
• Average Temperature
• Average Precipitation
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw the biome below
8
Savanna/Chaparral

• Facts about this biome
• Average Temperature
• Average Precipitation
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw the biome below
9
Boreal Forest- Taiga

• Facts about this biome
• Average Temperature
• Average Precipitation
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw the biome below
10
Tundra

• Facts about this biome
• Average Temperature
• Average Precipitation
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw the biome below
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Ocean Zones/Neritic Zone

• Facts about this ecosystem
• Describe the aphotic zone
• Describe the photic zone
• Explain the neritic zone
• Dominant Plants

Draw figure 21-8 pg. 423

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Estuaries/Wetlands

• Facts about these ecosystems
• Examples of estuary communities
• Examples of wetland communities
• Abiotic Factors
• Dominant Plants

Draw one of these ecosystems below