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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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Biome Matching Game
Match the appropriate biome with its characteristics.
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| Taiga | Dominated by coniferous forests, home to the Giant redwoods, cold, black bears, wolves, moose |
| Tundra | Northernmost land biome, covered by mosses, lichens, and grasses, caribou,permanently frozen subsoil |
| Temperate Deciduous Forest | Changing seasons and leaf fall, deer, moose, foxes, birds, humus layer in soil |
| Grassland | Usually found in the interior portions of continents, grasses and small leafy plants, tropical variations are called savannas |
| Tropical Rainforest | 200-400 centimeters of rainfall a year, large areas of South America, home to more species than can be found in all of the rest of the land biomes combined |
| Desert | Hot, dry, lizards, insects, scorpions, expanding biome |
| Freshwater Biome | Provides our drinking water, trout, Amazon, Nile |
| Intertidal Zone | Most difficult biome for animals to live in, radical changes in surroundings, pounding and surging waves, clams, seaweed, snails, sea urchins |
| Open Sea (Pelagic) | Phytoplankton, fish, sea birds, nutrients are scarce, suseptible to pollution |
| Deep Sea (Benthic) | Area of high pressure, cold temperature, and total darkness, gulper eels, giant squid, sea cucumbers |
| Estuaries | Boundaries between fresh and salt water, swamps, lagoons, sunlight penetrates the water completely |
| Biome | Environment that has a characteristic climax community |
| Ecosystem | A given area's abiotic factors and biotic factors |
| Climax Community | A stable collection of organisms |
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