WORLD'S BIOMES

WORLD´S BIOMES


Worksheet for Inglés II students of the ETSI de Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid



Consult the web page The world’s biomes to help you with these tasks and questions:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

1. What are biomes? State briefly what their significance is.

2. Create a pie-chart which shows in different colours the proportion of the five biomes in percentage.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/


CLASSIFICATION OF BIOME TYPES

3. Use and consult the following web pages in order to create a table of all biome types, and their subdivisions, indicating in each biome type the position in the world, the altitude, climate, vegetation, fauna and use. Pay special attention to forest types. Translate all divisions and subdivisions into Spanish.

Shades of green: Earth´s forests

http://library.thinkquest.org/17456/main1.html

The world´s biomes

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/

All about Nature

http://www.allaboutnature.com/biomes/tempdecid/tempdecid.shtml
NOT ONLY FOR KIDS! VERY HELPFUL!


4. Put together a bilingual (English-Spanish) glossary of terms you did not know (names of plant and animal species are optional)


NOTE: In all the tasks make use of the glossaries and taxon help to work with unknown vocabulary. The site All about Nature includes pictures of species in each biome and their names in Latin.