Biology Biome Paper: Amazon Basin

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CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY BIOME VACATION PLANNING REPORT (Research Report = 50 pts) YOUR GOAL: You have decided to get away on a vacation for two weeks. You will pick one of the following biomes at random and then answer the questions that follow. The different types of biomes are capitalized and bolded. Underneath each biome are examples. You can pick one of the example location or find an alternative location (must be approved by instructor). BIOME CHOICES TAIGA (NORTHERN CONIFEROUS FOREST, BOREAL FOREST) Northern Canada, Europe, and Asia (Need to specify your destination) CHAPARRAL (SCRUB FOREST) Sierra Nevada, California Mediterranean Coast Southern Australian coast HOT DESERT Kalahari Desert in southwestern Africa Sonoran Desert in southwestern U.S Thar Desert in India and Pakistan Death Valley National Park LAKES The Finger Lakes in Upstate New York The salty Caspian Sea Lake Baikal, Russia Great Lakes: Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan Lake Victoria (East Central Africa) COLD DESERT Gobi Desert in China Atacama on the coasts of Peru and Chile Great Basin in the western United States ALPINE Himalayan Mountains (e.g., Mt Everest) Rocky Mountains Andes Mountains RIVERS Mississippi River Watershed Nile River in North/East Africa Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River in China Lena River in Russia CAVES Solution caves: Limestone caves in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, or Karst cave in southeast Alaska Lava caves in Malpais National Park, New Mexico Glacier caves in Iceland TEMPERATE RAINFOREST Pacific Northwest SAVANNA Australian Tropical Savanna African Savanna GRASSLANDS Pampas Grasslands of Argentina OCEAN BEACH Key West in Florida TEMPERATE FOREST Adirondack Mountains in New York TROPICAL RAIN FOREST Amazon Basin in Brazil TUNDRA Denali National Park in Alaska ESTUARY San Francisco Bay in California Chesapeake Bay in Maryland CONIFEROUS FOREST Banff in Canada TEMPERATE OCEANS Atlantic and Pacific (deep ocean) TROPICAL OCEANS (Specify the “island” or “marine life” in the ocean) Caribbean Sea 1 Answer the following questions in your Biome Vacation Report 1. What month of the year do you plan to visit? What will be the climate (specify the temperature in Celsius, average amount of rainfall, wind conditions, etc.) during that month of your visit? Why did you pick that specific month? (5 points) 2. Tell me about the plants, animals, etc. that you expect to see while you are visiting your biome. What do these animals eat? Based on their eating habits, next to each organism label each as a producer, primary consumer (herbivore), secondary consumer (carnivore) or decomposer. (5 points) 3. Scientists often demonstrate these feeding types by putting them in a pyramid of energy in different trophic (“feeding”) levels, with the producer on the bottom level, the herbivore in the middle, and the carnivore(s) on the top. If there are carnivores that eat carnivores (tertiary consumer), these tertiary consumers would then be placed on the highest level of the energy pyramid. Place your plants and animals listed in Question #2 into a Pyramid of Energy. The easiest way to do this is to draw the pyramid by hand, take a photograph, and insert the picture into your document. (5 points) 4. Suppose a disease destroys all the primary consumers. What effect will this loss of primary consumers have on the producers? On the secondary consumers? Explain your answer. (5 points) 5. You may see different species of organisms living closely together (but not eating each other for food) in a symbiotic relationship. These different organisms may both benefit from the relationship (mutualism); one organism may benefit while the other one is unaffected (commensalism); or one organism may be harmed as the other one benefits (parasitism). Which one of these relationships will you see on your vacation? Specify the names of these two symbiotic organisms (e.g., plant & plant, plant & animal, animal & animal, decomposer & animal, etc.). (5 points) 6. Often animals have a particular behavior or anatomy (shape, color, etc.) that help them to survive in their natural environment. What plant or animal will you see that illustrates an organism’s adaptation to its environment? How does its adaptation allow the plant (or animal) to survive in your vacation spot? (10 points) 7. Of course, other humans have been to your vacation area before you. Name two ways in which humans have altered the environment of your vacation destination in the past 100 years for better or for worse consequences. (5 points) 8. You have heard that in some areas of the world that meat is contaminated with mercury or pesticide chemicals due to biological magnification. Is this a problem at your vacation destination? Consider this question regardless if your vacation spot has a documented contamination problem or not. Please specify; if contamination were a problem, which organism in your Pyramid of Energy would be most affected? Explain your answer based on your understanding of biological magnification. (5 points) 9. Properly format your paper, cite your library references and/or internet articles that you used to help you answer the above question using APA format. (5 points) 2
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Introduction

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Biome Paper: Amazon Basin
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Question 1
I plan to visit the Amazon rainforest in October. Amazon is typically hot and humid,
and it receives high rainfall throughout the year. The month of October is the best time
because it falls between august and November, which is the period the biome experiences a
dry season – less rainfall. The average temperature throughout the year is 28 degrees Celsius,
but October, which is the hottest, has a temperature of 32 degrees, and this is because the sun
is overhead the region around the period. The ...


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