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The _______________ rain forest is a hot, humid biome near the equator, that has abundant rainfall and a wide variety of life.
a) tropical
b) temperate
c) taiga
d) grassland

The ________________ is a sandy or rocky biome that has little precipitation and limited plant life.
a) grassland
b) desert
c) tundra
d) temperate

The ______________________ is a cool, northern forest biome dominated by conifers.
a) temperate
b) tropical
c) taiga
d) grassland

A very rainy biome called the __________ rain forest is dominated by evergreen trees and has mild winters and cool summers.
a) tropical
b) deciduous
c) biome
d) temperate

With few trees, the _________________ biome is a biome in which the main form of vegetation is grass.
a) grassland
b) desert
c) tundra
d) taiga

Any of Earth’s major land ecosystems with its own typical plants, soil, and climate is a(an) _______________________.
a) grassland
b) biome
c) desert
d) tropical

The __________________ is a large, treeless biome where the ground is frozen all year.
a) desert
b) deciduous
c) tundra
d) grassland

The ______________ forest, a forest biome with four distinct seasons, has trees that lose their leaves each year in autumn.
a) biome
b) tropical
c) taiga
d) deciduous

The coldest, harshest biome is the tundra, which is a treeless area with a layer of ______________ under the surface.
a) permafrost
b) hardwood
c) climate
d) grassland

Another largely treeless biome is the _________________, where grasses are the main type of plant life.
a) desert
b) grassland
c) tropical rain forest
d) taiga

In the ________________ biome, deciduous trees dominate.
a) grassland
b) tundra
c) deciduous forest
d) temperate rain forest

These are ___________ trees that lose their leaves each autumn.
a) climate
b) taiga
c) tropical
d) hardwood

North of this biome is the __________________, with its cold, snowy climate and forests of conifers.
a) taiga
b) tundra
c) grassland
d) deciduous forest

The _______________ biome is hot and rainy all the time and has more types of plants and animals than any other biome.
a) desert
b) tropical rain forest
c) hardwood
d) permafrost

There are also ___________ rain forests, which are rainy, but have a cooler climate than tropical rain forest.
a) hardwood
b) desert
c) temperate
d) taiga

Earth has several major land ecosystems called biomes. Each of these has its own typical animals, plants, soil, and _____________.
a) tropical rain forest
b) tundra
c) temperate
d) climate

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