Biome Quiz
Practice
AP Environmental Science
South Sevier High School
Question 1
1. 
What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Taiga
Cold Desert
Savanna
Warm Desert
Question 2
2. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Boreal Forest
Cold Desert
Prairie
Warm Desert
Question 3
3. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Boreal Forest
Tundra
Prairie
Taiga
Question 4
4. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Boreal Forest
Deciduous Forest
Prairie
Taiga
Question 5
5. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Boreal Forest
Deciduous Forest
Temperate Rainforest
Tropical Rainforest
Hint: Washington State
Question 6
6. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Boreal Forest
Deciduous Forest
Coniferous Forest
Taiga
Question 7
7. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Taiga
Deciduous Forest
Chaparral
Savanna
Question 8
8. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Boreal Forest
Deciduous Forest
Chaparral
Tropical Rainforest
Question 9
9. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Coral Reef
Open Ocean
Pelagic Zone
Benthos Zone
Question 10
10. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Estuary
Swamp
Mangrove
Marsh
Question 11
11. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Estuary
Swamp
Mangrove
Marsh
Question 12
12. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Cold Desert
Hot Desert
Chaparral
Swamp
Question 13
13. What biome is this?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Cold Desert
Hot Desert
Chaparral
Boreal Forest
Question 15
15. Which biome below would be the
coldest?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Estuary
Tundra
MangroveHint
H
Hint: Elk, Moose, Deer
Question 16
16. What environmental factors are the most
important in the determination of the
location of a biome?
Question 17
17. Which biome has the greatest
biodiversity?
Question 18
18. Which biome makes up most of the
Eastern United States?
Question 19
19. Which African biome would you be in if
you saw elephants, giraffes, and lions in
the wild?
Question 20
20. The open ocean (hundreds of miles from
shore) is referred to as an aquatic
rainforest because of the large amounts
of biodiversity found there.
A.  True
B.  False
Question 21
21. What biome to we live in here in Monroe,
Utah?
Question 22
22. What biome covers most of Northern
Canada?
Question 23
23. What type of forest exists in high
mountain areas where fog and mists
keep things constantly wet?
Question 24
24. What is the name of the predominate
biome in California (Spanish for thicket)?
Question 25
25. If the average rainfall in an area is
around 4-5 feet per year, and the
temperature varies only +/-9.5 degrees,
what biome would you be in?
Question 26
26. What is the typical biome found
circumventing the Earth at 80N degrees
latitude?
Question 27
27. What biome covers most of Greenland?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Tundra
Boreal Forest
Tropical Rainforest
Snow and Ice
Question 30
30. Name one important feature (from an
ecological standpoint) of swamps,
marshes, bogs, and fens.
32. The picture below depicts what
climatic condition?
Monroe, Utah
You are here!
Question 34
34. What biome would you be in if the trees
where growing right in the water, and an
alligator was chomping on your foot?
Question 35
35. 
Look at the picture. This is an
example where two distinct
biomes meet. This area is
called a/an ________.
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Ecosystem
Ecotone
Estuary
Continental Divide
Question 36
36. What biome makes up most of Japan?
A. 
B. 
C. 
D. 
Tropical Rainforest
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Cold Desert
Grassland
Question 37
37. What biome would you be in if you
visited Brazil?
Question 38
38. What biome would you be in if you went
to Kenya?
Question 40
40. What biome would you be in if you
visited Central Mexico?