Land Biomes Of the World
•Tropical Rain Forest
•Desert
•Grassland
•Temperate Forest
•Boreal Forest
•Tundra
• Climate: It rains almost everyday. Very warm (humid)
Tropical Rainforests
• Consumers: Tigers, leopards, pythons, insects,
spiders, tree frogs, monkeys, snakes, colorful birds,
ants, firefly, orangutan, and three-toed sloth
• Producers: more kinds of plants grow in the tropical
rainforest than other biomes. Palm trees, ferns,
banana leaf vines, and flowers.
• Extra facts: located near the equator ½ of all animals
on earth live in the rainforest. More tree dwelling
creatures than any other biome. Insects have
evolved to have lots of predator adaptation due to
the numerous amount of predators.
Website with great pictures
Emergent Layer
Canopy
Understory
Forest Floor
Nocturnal
• Animals that are active at night and sleep
during the day
Diurnal
• Organisms active during the day and sleep
at night.
DesertDesert
• Climate: Very dry, little precipitation, hot days, cool
nights
• Consumers: Snakes, lizards, kangaroo rats,
tortoises, jackrabbits, and camels.
• Producers: Very few; cacti, saguaro, yucca. Plants
store water and have very small leaves and thorns.
• Extra facts: Animals active during day are called
diurnal. Active at night called nocturnal. Very few
large animals live in the desert because large
amounts of food and water are hard to find.
Different types of Deserts. Sahara vs. Arizona
desert
Sahara Desert – Lots of Sand, few
producers and Camels.
Arizona Desert = Cacti, Joshua trees,
I do not want to see a picture of a cactus next to a camel
they do not live in the same Desert!
Grassland
• Climate: moderate to very warm most of the
year, short winters, & humid summers. Average
amount of precipitation.
• Consumers: Antelope, badgers, prairie dogs,
moles, ground squirrels, hares, gophers, & many
birds.
• Producers: grasses, very few trees
• Extra facts: also called savannas, velds, papas,
prairies, and steppes
• Deciduous Trees trees that drop their
leaves and grow
new ones each
year. Leaves
change color.
• Video about different types
of trees.
• Coniferous Trees(evergreens) trees that
produce their seed in
cones and have
needle shaped leaves.
They stay green all
year.
• All Bulldogs are
dogs. (true)
• All Dogs are Bull
dogs. (false)
All Conifers are Evergreens (true)
• All Conifers
are are Conifers
All Evergreens
Evergreens
(true)
• All Evergreens
are Conifers.
(false)
• All Conifers are
Evergreens (true)
• All Evergreens are
Conifers
CCMS Tree Observation
• Hypothesis: If we walk around CCMS then
we will see more __________________
trees.
• As we walk the campus we will discuss the various
trees around campus and tally up how many of
each type of tree we have.
Evergreen Trees
Deciduous Trees
Conifers
Other
Deciduous Forest
• Climate: warm summers, cold winters, moist
spring, four seasons. Precipitation varies
• Consumers: bears, deer, foxes, raccoons,
opossums, squirrels, insects, and birds.
• Producers: wildflowers, ferns, mosses, some
evergreens, most are deciduous, such as oak,
hickory, beech and maple tree. MOST OF THE
TREES ARE DECIDUOUS (leaves change color in
fall)
• Extra Facts: leaves fall off the tree in fall therefore
there is lots of dead leaves on the ground. Many
animals hibernate. (video)
Boreal Forest
(Coniferous Forest, Taiga)
• Climate: cold, some rain, large amounts of snow
fall. Winter 6 months of the year.
• Consumers: deer, ducks, geese, moose,
mountain goats, bears, bighorn sheep, rabbits,
squirrels, porcupine.
• Producers: spruces, firs, pines, aspens, poplars,
mosses, lichens, wildflowers MOST OF THE
TREES ARE CONIFERS (trees with cones)
• Extra facts: Most trees are evergreens (trees that
stay green all year).
•
Video (2 minutes)
Brain pop on Taiga
Tundra
Brain bop on Tundra
•Tundra video
•Review Video of all 6
land biomes.
• Climate: very cold, little
precipitation, snow on the
ground all but two months of the
year.
• Consumers: reindeer, arctic
foxes, wolves, snowy owls,
hawks, eagles, falcons,
lemmings, voles, marmots,
mosquitoes, and flies.
• Producers: during two summer
months Mosses, grasses, shrubs,
lichens NO TREES because the
soil is frozen called permafrost.
• Extra facts: very, very cold
Permafrost
Permanently
Frozen Soil
No trees in the tundra. Willow is technically a
tree and this is as big as it gets!
Warm-up # 1
1. What is a Biome?
2. What are the 6 main land biomes?
3. What two factors make up the climate
of a biome?
4. What are the levels of ecological
organization starting with the smallest
unit and going up.
Warm-up # 1
1. Why do rainforest plants have large
leaves?
2. Which biome is located at the
equator?
3. What two factors make up the
climate of a biome?
4. What are the levels of ecological
organization starting with the
smallest unit and going up.
Warm-up # 2
1. Explain why desert plants have small
leaves and TRF plants have large wide
leaves.
2. What are two abiotic factors you can
compare between biomes?
3. What are the four layers of the tropical
rain forest name an organism found at
each level.
4. What are 3 carnivores that live in the
desert?
Warm-up # 3
1. What makes the American
Desert and the Sahara Desert
both Deserts? What makes them
different?
2. What ecological role do both the
Lion from the African Savannah
and the Giant Anteater from the
Brazilian Savannah play?
Warm-up # 3
1. What is the difference between a
Deciduous Tree and a Evergreen
tree?
2. Why are conifers triangle in shape and
have needle shaped leaves?
3. What are two abiotic factors you can
compare between biomes?
Warm-up # 4
1. What is a biome?
2. What is the difference between
producers in the Boreal Forest and
the Deciduous Forest?
3. Explain why desert plants have
small leaves and TRF plants have
large wide leaves.
4. Create a food chain found in the
Boreal Forest?
5. What are two abiotic factors you
can compare between biomes?
Warm-up # 4
1. What is the difference between a
Deciduous Tree and a Coniferous Tree?
2. What are 2 herbivores that live in the
grassland?
3. List a producer found in the TRF,
Grassland and Desert.
4. What role do mushrooms play in the
Tropical Rain Forest?
Warm-up # 4
1. What
are the four layers of the
tropical rain forest name an organism
found at each level.
2. What are 3 carnivores that live in
the desert?
3. Why can’t trees grow in the Tundra?
4. List 4 organisms found
predominately in the Deciduous
Forest?
Warm-up # 5
• Create a Venn diagram of the three forest
biomes.
Warm-up #3
1. Name four Biotic factors found mostly in the
Deciduous Forest.
2. Describe the 4 layers of the Tropical Rain
Forest.
3. Which 2 Biomes have evergreen trees?
4. Which biome has warm temperatures all year
long.
5. What is a large ecosystem which has similar
populations and climate throughout.
Warm-up # 6
1. Name the 6 biomes that you have studied.
2. What is permafrost?
3. What 2 abiotic factors determined climate,
therefore the type of biomes that can exist?
4. What are some ways that humans can alter
(change) a biome?
5. Recall the cycles that you learned about
(water, carbon, nitrogen). Give an example of
how altering a biome would impact one of
these cycles?
Emergent Layer
Canopy
Understory
Forest Floor
Warm-up # 5
• Create a Venn diagram of the three treeless biomes.
Desert Article Questions
1. What is a Joshua Tree?
2. What are five different producers found
in the desert?
3. What is causing some deserts to
expand? Is this a bad thing? (explain)
4. How do desert flowers survive droughts?
5. What is a resurrection plant?
6. How do cactus survive the desert?