What is a Biome? A biome is a large geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region determines what type of biome can exist in that region. Major biomes include deserts, forests, grasslands, tundra, and several types of aquatic environments. Each biome consists of many ecosystems whose communities have adapted to the small differences in climate and the environment inside the biome. All living things are closely related to their environment. Any change in one part of an environment, like an increase or decrease of a species of animal or plant, causes a ripple effect of change in through other parts of the environment. The earth includes a huge variety of living things, from complex plants and animals to very simple, one-celled organisms. But large or small, simple or complex, no organism lives alone. Each depends in some way on other living and nonliving things in its surroundings.
To understand a world biome, you need to know:
What the climate of the region is like.
Where each biome is found and and what its geography is like.
The special adaptations of the vegetation.
The types of animals found in the biome and their physical and behavioral adaptations to their environment.
Ecological Relationships of Biomes The survival and well being of a biome and its organisms depends on ecological relationships throughout the world. Even changes in distant parts of the world and its atmosphere affect our environment and us. The eruption of a volcano in Mexico, or Southeast Asia can bring the temperature of the whole world down a few degrees for several years.
Virtual Biome Project What to Do
Create a virtual biome using “Photo Story.” Your group will select, by a random draw, one of the following biomes.
Arctic Tundra,
Boreal (Coniferous) Forest
Temperate Rainforest (Western North America),
Tropical Rainforest (Amazon),
Desert (Sahara)
Temperate (Deciduous) Forest,
Prairie Grasslands (North America),
Savannah (African Serengeti),
The Abyssal Zone,
Fresh Water Biomes,
The Intertidal Zone
You will create a virtual biome using “Photo Story,” illustrating the types of organisms which live there. In addition, your presentation needs to show how organisms interact with other organisms and the abiotic factors in the biome. Your particular biome must contain the following information:
A map showing the location of the biome.
Several biotic factors including: plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. You must explain how the various organisms interact with each other.
A minimum of four abiotic factors, such as water, soil, etc.
Each of the biotic factors must be part of your particular biome. Your particular biome has to make sense.
A detailed food web illustrating the energy relationships between producers and consumers.
The food web must include pictures and common names of each of the following:
1. Ultimate source of energy that starts it all for most food webs 2. 4 Producers 3. 3 First order / primary consumers 4. 2 Second order/ secondary consumers 5. 1 Third order/ tertiary consumers 6.2 Decomposers
The text on your slides needs to clearly:
Use the correct scientific vocabulary that you have learned so far in this unit.
Tell what your biome is about.
Show the abiotic factors in your biome.
Show the biotic elements (plants and animals) in your biome.
Show how the abiotic factors support the biotic elements in the biome.
Showhow certain organisms are specially adapted to the biome.
Your Photo Story must be narrated. That is to say that the Photo Story requires a voice track that explains each picture of the Photo Story.
How to do it.
Carefully follow the instructions for the research project because your photo story needs to have all the information that the project outlines.
Carefully plan all elements of the presentation, pictures, text, narration and music. Create a new folder on your desktop. Name it "Biome Photo Story Project" All content must be saved in this folder.
Experiment with Photo Story.
Search for suitable and appropriate images Import your photos.
Assemble your pictures.
Add your effects and transitions
Write your text.
Add your text.
Add narration.
Add music.
Use your imagination.
Be creative.
Have fun!!!!!
A biome is a large geographical area of distinctive plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. The climate and geography of a region determines what type of biome can exist in that region. Major biomes include deserts, forests, grasslands, tundra, and several types of aquatic environments. Each biome consists of many ecosystems whose communities have adapted to the small differences in climate and the environment inside the biome.
All living things are closely related to their environment. Any change in one part of an environment, like an increase or decrease of a species of animal or plant, causes a ripple effect of change in through other parts of the environment.
The earth includes a huge variety of living things, from complex plants and animals to very simple, one-celled organisms. But large or small, simple or complex, no organism lives alone. Each depends in some way on other living and nonliving things in its surroundings.
The survival and well being of a biome and its organisms depends on ecological relationships throughout the world. Even changes in distant parts of the world and its atmosphere affect our environment and us. The eruption of a volcano in Mexico, or Southeast Asia can bring the temperature of the whole world down a few degrees for several years.
Virtual Biome Project
What to Do
Create a virtual biome using “Photo Story.”
Your group will select, by a random draw, one of the following biomes.
Arctic Tundra,
Boreal (Coniferous) Forest
Temperate Rainforest (Western North America),
Tropical Rainforest (Amazon),
Desert (Sahara)
Temperate (Deciduous) Forest,
Prairie Grasslands (North America),
Savannah (African Serengeti),
The Abyssal Zone,
Fresh Water Biomes,
The Intertidal Zone
You will create a virtual biome using “Photo Story,” illustrating the types of organisms which live there. In addition, your presentation needs to show how organisms interact with other organisms and the abiotic factors in the biome. Your particular biome must contain the following information:
1. Ultimate source of energy that starts it all for most food webs
2. 4 Producers
3. 3 First order / primary consumers
4. 2 Second order/ secondary consumers
5. 1 Third order/ tertiary consumers
6. 2 Decomposers
The text on your slides needs to clearly:
- Use the correct scientific vocabulary that you have learned so far in this unit.
- Tell what your biome is about.
- Show the abiotic factors in your biome.
- Show the biotic elements (plants and animals) in your biome.
- Show how the abiotic factors support the biotic elements in the biome.
- Show how certain organisms are specially adapted to the biome.
Your Photo Story must be narrated. That is to say that the Photo Story requires a voice track that explains each picture of the Photo Story.How to do it.
Carefully follow the instructions for the research project because your photo story needs to have all the information that the project outlines.
Carefully plan all elements of the presentation, pictures, text, narration and music.
Create a new folder on your desktop. Name it "Biome Photo Story Project" All content must be saved in this folder.
Experiment with Photo Story.
Search for suitable and appropriate images
Import your photos.
Assemble your pictures.
Add your effects and transitions
Write your text.
Add your text.
Add narration.
Add music.
Use your imagination.
Be creative.
Have fun!!!!!
http://drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/photostorytelling/storytelling_PhotoStory.htm http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=be2ed7ab7fc46d58
http://www.mbgnet.net/
www.enchantedlearning.com
www.blueplanetbiomes.org
www.ask.com
www.wikipedia.org
www.pics4learning.com
www.discovery.com
www.worldwildlife.org/photogalleries/
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1951-biomes-of-the-world-aquatic
http://room19vv.tripod.com/
Virtual Biome Photo Story Project
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