Research Questions

Biomes

Temperate Deciduous Forest

1. What type of biome are you researching?

2. Are there different subtypes of your biome?

3. List all of the locations where your biome can be found.

4. What are some distinctive characteristics of your biome?

5. What is the temperature range of your biome?

6. What is the climate and weather like in your biome?

7. What are some problems that people might encounter that live in your biome?

8. What type of plants and trees can be found in your biome?

9. Pick one plant and describe how it is important to animals and/or humans.

10. What type of animals can be found in your biome?

11. Pick one animal and describe how it is important to the environment and/or humans.

12. What is the least/most common animal in the deciduous forest?

13. What is the oddest looking tree in the deciduous forest?

14.  What is the biggest tree in the deciduous forest?

15.  What other products besides wood are produced by things in the deciduous forest?

16. Do all deciduous trees change color during the fall?

17. What kinds of animals live in the deciduous forest?

18. What is the tallest broadleaf tree in the deciduous forest?  

19. Do broadleaf leaves change color or fall off in warmer climates such as Florida? What are the standards for the broadleaf tree to live and grow?

20.  What is the lifespan of some of the broadleaf trees?

21. How much water do broadleaf trees take in each day?

22. Where does a gray squirrel live in a deciduous forest?

23. What is a deciduous forest?

24. What is the highest temperature a deciduous forest can reach?

25. What is the lowest temperature that it can reach?

26.  Why aren't deciduous forests all over the country; why are they just on the Eastern coast?

27. Why do some raccoons live in trees? Is it for protection?

28. Why do deciduous forests grow where there is 75-150 cm of rainfall?

Tundra

1. What type of biome are you researching?

2. Are there different subtypes of your biome?

3. List all of the locations where your biome can be found.

4. What are some distinctive characteristics of your biome?

5. What is the temperature range of your biome?

6. What is the climate and weather like in your biome?

7. What are some problems that people might encounter that live in your biome?

8. What type of plants and trees can be found in your biome?

9. Pick one plant and describe how it is important to animals and/or humans.

10. What type of animals can be found in your biome?

11. Pick one animal and describe how it is important to the environment and/or humans.

12. Describe the origin and meaning of the word “tundra”.

13. What is permafrost?

14. What adaptations have plants had to make due to the environment of the tundra?

15.  Why aren’t there many reptiles or amphibians in the tundra?

16. How long is the growing season in the arctic tundra?

17. How long is the growing season in the alpine tundra?

18. What are some of the adaptations animals have to survive the very cold winters?

19. What do tundra animals eat?

20. What geological events are related to the formation of the tundra?

21. Why is the tundra referred to as the simplest of biomes?

22. Why isn’t there a lot of soil in a tundra biome?

23. How do migratory species adapt to the tundra?

Taiga – Boreal Forest

1. What type of biome are you researching?
2. Are there different subtypes of your biome?
3. List all of the locations where your biome can be found.
4. What are some distinctive characteristics of your biome?
5. What is the temperature range of your biome?
6. What is the climate and weather like in your biome?
7. What are some problems that people might encounter that live in your biome?
8. What type of plants and trees can be found in your biome?
9. Pick one plant and describe how it is important to animals and/or humans.
10. What type of animals can be found in your biome?
11. Pick one animal and describe how it is important to the environment and/or humans.
12. What natural disaster is a continual threat to a taiga biome?
13. Why do birds migrate to the taiga?
14. What is the origin and meaning of the word taiga?
15. Describe four adaptations that trees have made in order to survive in the taiga.
16. What type of water bodies can be found in a taiga/boreal forest biome?
17. What types of industry are attracted to a taiga/boreal forest biome?
18. How are dams harmful to the taiga/boreal forest biome?

Rainforest

1. What type of biome are you researching?
2. Are there different subtypes of your biome?
3. List all of the locations where your biome can be found.
4. What are some distinctive characteristics of your biome?
5. What is the temperature range of your biome?
6. What is the climate and weather like in your biome?
7. What are some problems that people might encounter that live in your biome?
8. What type of plants and trees can be found in your biome?
9. Pick one plant and describe how it is important to animals and/or humans.
10. What type of animals can be found in your biome?
11. Pick one animal and describe how it is important to the environment and/or humans.
12. What geological events are related to the formation of this biome?
13. What does a drip tip refer to on plants?
14. What is the function of prop and stilt roots?
15. What is the main difference between the types of rainforests?
16. How do rainforests recycle their rain?
17. What food sources are there in the rain forest?
18. How come there are not a lot of lakes or ponds in a rain forest?
19. Why is a day in the rainforest more hot than a day in the desert?
20. What are the forest layers in the tropical rain forest?
21. What types of animals live in the different layers of a tropical rain forest?
22. What kinds of medicine are developed in the rain forest?

Grasslands

1. What type of biome are you researching?
2. Are there different subtypes of your biome?
3. List all of the locations where your biome can be found.
4. What are some distinctive characteristics of your biome?
5. What is the temperature range of your biome?
6. What is the climate and weather like in your biome?
7. What are some problems that people might encounter that live in your biome?
8. What type of plants and trees can be found in your biome?
9. Pick one plant and describe how it is important to animals and/or humans.
10. What type of animals can be found in your biome?
11. Pick one animal and describe how it is important to the environment and/or humans.
12. What type of grassland covers almost half of Africa?
13. Describe the soil of a savanna grassland.
14. How are most fires started in a savanna grassland?
15. What are some of the environmental concerns regarding savanna grasslands?
16. How is the soil of a temperate grassland different from that of a savanna?
17. What is an environmental concern regarding temperate grasslands?
18. What are steppes?

Desert

1. What type of biome are you researching?
2. Are there different subtypes of your biome?
3. List all of the locations where your biome can be found.
4. What are some distinctive characteristics of your biome?
5. What is the temperature range of your biome?
6. What is the climate and weather like in your biome?
7. What are some problems that people might encounter that live in your biome?
8. What type of plants and trees can be found in your biome?
9. Pick one plant and describe how it is important to animals and/or humans.
10. What type of animals can be found in your biome?
11. Pick one animal and describe how it is important to the environment and/or humans.
12. How do mountain ranges affect a desert?
13. What is desertification?
14. How do animals keep cool in a desert?
15. Describe some of the adaptations that camels have that help them to survive in a desert biome.
16. If deserts get very little rainfall, then how do plants survive?
17. Explain how there can be a desert in Antarctica.
18. Give some examples of limiting factors in a desert biome.