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Geography · Grade 5

Climate, Biomes and Resources

Learners discover that climate, above all temperature and precipitation, decides which plants and animals can live in a place, creating Earth's great biomes: tundra, taiga, temperate deciduous forest, grassland, desert, tropical rainforest and the ocean. They read climographs to identify a biome, find biome patterns on the world map, and trace the resources each biome gives people, from maple syrup to copper, along with ways to use them without using them up.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 minutes
  • Climate, biomes and resources check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, pin a map, pick map regions, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Describe the major biomes (tundra, taiga, temperate deciduous forest, grassland, desert, tropical rainforest and ocean) and the climate that makes each one.
  • Read a climograph or climate table (average temperature and precipitation by month) and use it to identify a biome.
  • Locate examples of biomes on a world map and describe the pattern from the equator toward the poles.
  • Identify resources that come from each biome and explain ways people can conserve them.

Lessons

  1. What makes a biome? 8 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  2. Reading climographs 7 steps4 practiceabout 23 min
  3. Biomes on the world map 8 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Resources and conservation 7 steps4 practiceabout 23 min
  5. Climate, biomes and resources check 9 questions at the end

Keep exploring

Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Mapmaker QuestFollow directions to make a map, then read its legend, compass rose and scale.

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