Sample Biome Project Answer Page
Name: ___________________________
Biome # 1: ________________________
1. Climagraph Map (temperature, precipitation, and months, example on p. 86 of your textbook)
2. World Location Map (example on p. 86 of your textbook)
3. Biome Geography (mountains, swampy, rainfall, temperatures, lines of latitude, etc.)
4. Human Interaction With Biome:
A. Housing:
What kinds of houses? How are the houses arranged? Are there any limits to the number and kinds of houses this biome can support? Explain. What is more important, cooling or heating the house? Explain. What are the unique features of this biome that can be seen in the average house? What are the environmental side affects of these kinds of uses?
B. Transportation:
How do people get around? Are there any limits to the kinds of transportation this biome can support? Explain. What are the unique features of this biome that can be seen in the way people move around? What are the environmental side affects of these kinds of uses?
C. Food Resources:
What kinds of food do people eat in this biome? Where and how is the food grown (i.e. nomads, subsistence farming, small farms, large farms, plantations, imports, fish, others)? How valuable is water and how is it used? Are there any limits to the kinds of foods and water use this biome can support? Explain. What are the unique features of this biome that can be seen in the kinds of food and how people eat? What are the environmental side affects of these kinds of uses? List 2-3 ways in which the geology, rainfall, soils, plants, or animals affect the economics, politics, or the culture of the biome?
D. Recreation:
What are some common recreational ways humans use this biome? What is unique about this biome that either attracts or repels people? What are the environmental side affects of these kinds of uses?
5. Human Impacts on Biome
A. Positive:
B. Negative:
6. Common Vegetation and Adaptions (at least 2-3 examples) The adaptations must be unique to that biome.
7. Common Animals and Adaptions (at least 2-3 examples) The adaptations must be unique to that biome.
8. Soil Profiles for the 3 land biomes
A. Include a healthy mix of facts and personal observations, opinions, comparisons, etc.
B. Use your own words, do NOT just simply copy others' words.
C. Write a 3-5 sentence conclusion.
D. Everything typed
E. Neatness
F. Project binder cover