1. Chapter 11 Climate and Biomes
• What is the relationship between climate and the types of vegetation throughout the world?

2. What are the major patterns of vegetation found on Earth?

3. Are similar vegetation patterns found in different parts of the world?

4. What animals are associated with the different vegetation patterns?

5. What type of adaptations are selected for in different biomes?

6. Do climates change over time?

7. What influences the climate of a particular region?

8. What influences the climate of a particular region?
1. Altitude -  altitude,  temperature
2. Latitude – sun’s radiation is less direct as you move N or S from equator
Proximity to large body of water (moderates temperature)
Proximity to mountains
Albedo (albedo =
reflection = temperature
Humidity

9. Temperature and Precipitation Patterns
Humidity: Amount of water vapour in air (reported as % water that air can hold at a specific temperature).
Humidity  as temperature 
Humidex = combines temperature and precipitation to give an indication of what the air “feels like” to people

10. HUMIDEX CHART

11. Temperature and Precipitation Patterns
When air cools, thermal energy is removed from water vapor in the air, changes from gas to liquid (Hvap)
The temperature when water vapor in air condenses is called DEW POINT.

12. Precipitation
Rain (mm), snow (cm) 1 cm snow = 10 mm rain

13. Biomes Major geographic regions with similar environmental conditions
Examples????

14. Taiga (boreal), desert, tropical rainforest, grasslands, fresh water, oceans, temperate deciduous, tundra…..

15. Ecosystem
A community of living organisms that interact with each other and with the non-living (abiotic), physical environment.
Examples?

17. Habitat
Where an animal or plant lives (home)
Examples?

18. Match animal to its habitat

19. Adaptations 3 types 1) physiological – occurs inside organism
Examples?

20. Cold blooded vs. warm blooded
Gizzard in bird, 4 stomachs in cows (digestion)
Venom (snakes)
Poison dart frog
Blue-ringed octopus
Black widow spider

22. 2. Structural Adaptations
Physical features on outside
Examples?

23. Claws, teeth, camouflage, spines and thorns on cactus and plants

24. 3. Behavioral Adaptations
What an organism does
Examples?

25. Migration, hibernation, nocturnal behaviors, mating behaviors and dances, broken wing behavior in birds