Name: KEY Date: World Geography Period: – Unit 3 Test Review Ecosystems/Biomes; Population; Culture Directions: Use your notes and your knowledge of World Geography identify and complete the following topics of Unit 3. Biomes/Ecosystems Characteristics; What climate regions are they found? – Lush, thick vegetation Tropical Rain Forest 50% of worlds plants and Tropical Wet animals Broad leafed trees that loses Deciduous Forest there leaves once a year Humid Sub-Tropical (usually autumn/fall) Evergreen trees; small or needle Coniferous Forest Subarctic leaves; cones to protect seeds Mixture of Deciduous and Forest Marine West Coast Coniferous forests Small evergreen trees, and low Chaparral Mediterranean bushes Grasslands called savannas; Tropical Grasslands herbivore and carnivore Tropical Wet/Dry animals Fertile soils and tall grasses that Temperate Grasslands Humid Continental can survive cold winters Deserts Very dry, scarce vegetation Arid Permafrost; grasses and Tundra Tundra other cold weather vegetation Population density (Define and give the formula) Population density you how concentrated the numbers of people are in an area. (Population / Land Area) What are the major population trends for the world and the U.S.? World rapid population growth (beginning in the 1800s); Urbanization – U.S. Westward Expansion (1800s); Southern Expansion (1950s) – Population Growth Rate World = birth rate death rate – Country = rate + immigration) (death rate + emigration) –
Name: KEY Date: World Geography – Period: Unit 3 Test Review Ecosystems/Biomes; Population; Culture Directions: Use your notes and your knowledge of World Geography identify and complete the following topics of Unit 3. Biomes/Ecosystems – Characteristics; What climate regions are they found? Tropical Rain Forest Lush, thick vegetation 50% of worlds plants and animals Tropical Wet Deciduous Forest Broad leafed trees that loses there leaves once a year (usually autumn/fall) Humid Sub-Tropical Coniferous Forest Evergreen trees; small or needle leaves; cones to protect seeds Subarctic Forest Mixture of Deciduous and Coniferous forests Marine West Coast Chaparral Small evergreen trees, and low bushes Mediterranean Tropical Grasslands Grasslands called savannas; herbivore and carnivore animals Tropical Wet/Dry Temperate Grasslands Fertile soils and tall grasses that can survive cold winters Humid Continental Deserts Very dry, scarce vegetation Arid Tundra Permafrost; grasses and other cold weather vegetation Tundra Population density (Define and give the formula) Population density you how concentrated the numbers of people are in an area. (Population / Land Area) What are the major population trends for the world and the U.S.? World – rapid population growth (beginning in the 1800s); Urbanization U.S. – Westward Expansion (1800s); Southern Expansion (1950s) Population Growth Rate World = birth rate – death rate Country = rate + immigration) – (death rate + emigration)
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