Biome and Climate Match

3rd Grade ScienceBiomes3 pages

About this worksheet

This 3rd grade science sheet asks students to match six biomes to short climate descriptions, then answer four questions about them. Page 1 shows a picture and a letter for the desert, tropical rainforest, tundra, grassland, deciduous forest and taiga. Students write the right letter beside clues such as "Hot and wet all year" and "Very cold, frozen ground, short summer". Page 2 asks which biome gets the most rain, which has no trees, which two have cold winters with snow and which is driest. It links to NGSS 3-ESS2-2, and page 3 is the answer key.

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Biome and Climate Match: Biomes - page 1

Biome and Climate Match: Biomes - page 2

Biome and Climate Match: Biomes - page 3

Curriculum objectives covered

3-ESS2-2

“Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.”

Page 1 pairs six climate descriptions with their biomes, and questions 1 and 4 on page 2 compare how much rain two of them get.

What's inside this worksheet

Match the Biome

Six picture cards labeled A to F sit above a table of six climate clues. Students write the letter of the matching biome in the box beside each clue.

Biome Questions

A word bank of the six biomes sits above four questions with two answer lines each. Students use their page 1 matches to name the biome with the most rain, the one with no trees, two with cold winters and snow, and the driest.

Answers

The letter and biome name for all six clues, then one-line answers to the four questions, with a note on other biomes the key accepts for question 3.

How teachers use it

Unit opener

Hand it out before any reading. Students who guess from the pictures first often change a letter once they read frozen ground or evergreen trees.

Question 3 talk

Several biomes here have cold winters, so ask students to point to the clue that mentions snow. It leads into a short chat about how tundra and taiga differ from deciduous forest.

Exit ticket

Use page 2 on its own at the end of a lesson. The word bank supports students who need it, and four short answers are quick to check.

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