Tour of Biomes

Go to http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html

1. On a separate word document, create a table of 4 columns and 8 rows. Label the 4 columns of the top row as follows: Biome, Precipitation, Temperature, Characteristics.
2. On the website, click on the biome closest to the equator (0 latitude). If you found the correct latitude, you’ll be looking at a Tropical Rain Forest.
3. Click on the climograph link and learn how to read a climograph
4. Return to the Rain Forest page.
1. Read about the biome and scroll down to the climograph.
2. What does the climograph tell you about the seasons in this biome?
3. Fill in the information for this biome in your table.
5. Return to the Tour of Biomes home page (use the back arrow at the top of your screen)
6. Select the biome at the next highest latitude. If you found the correct latitude you’ll be looking at a Savanna.
7. Repeat a, b, and c as in step 4.
8. Return to the Tour of Biomes home page and continue to view the biomes at increasing latitudes, completing a, b, and c for each one.
9. The site has no information about Temperate Grasslands. Find that information at some other site and record the url in your table beneath the biome name.
10. If you have correctly listed the biomes on your table in order of increasing latitude, where would you place the temperate grassland?

Note:

· Tropical latitudes include the earth from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south of the equator.

· Sub-tropical latitudes are just beyond the tropics, i.e. South Florida is sub-tropical.

· Mid-latitudes extend from 23.5 degrees to 60 degrees of latitude, north and south

· The poles are at 90 degrees north and south latitude.

· Sub-polar latitudes begin at 60 degrees north and south