Terrestrial Biome
Rainforest
Tundra
Taiga
Common Plants/
Animals
 Bamboo
 Bearded Pig
 Brazilian Tapir
 Capybara
 Chimpanzee
 Common Tree
Shrew
 Crested Guan
 Flying Dragon
 Gorilla
 Indian Cobra
 Orangutan
 Slow Loris
 Vine Snake
 Lichen
 Cotton grass
 Gyrfalcon
 Rock Ptarmigan
 Ruddy
Turnstone
 Snow Bunting
 Snowy Owl
 Tundra Swan
 Arctic Fox
 Caribou
 Musk Ox
 Norway
Lemming
 Polar Bear
 Sled Dogs
 Evergreen trees
(Conifers)
 Needle
Evergreens
 Bohemian
Waxwing
 Hawk Owl
 Pine Grosbeak
 Red-Throated
Loon
 Ermine
 Eurasian Beaver
 European Red
Squirrel
Interesting Features
Weather/Climate
Endangered biome,
trees can live to 1000
years old, home to a
large variety of species
Hot, humid, abundant
rainfall
Small plants, very little
vegetation
Very cold (avg temp 1020 degrees F), low
precipitation,
permafrost
Freezing temps for half
the year,
12-33 in. rainfall,
seasonal temperatures
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Desert
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Temperate
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Lynx
Marten
Moose
Snowshoe
Rabbit
Wolverine
Saguaro Cactus
Barrel Cactus
Old Man Cactus
Prickly Pear
Dragon Tree
Fish Hook
Cactus
Desert Spoon
Aloe
Yucca
Joshua Tree
Addax
Cactus Wren
Desert Lark
Dingo
Fat Sand Rat
Fennec Fox
Gila Monster
Great Jerboa
Great MouseTailed Bat
Lappet-Faced
Vulture
Sidewinder
Thorny Devil
Deciduous trees
Bank Vole
Black Bear
Gray Squirrel
Raccoon
White-tailed
Deer
Wild Boar
Cardinal
Goshawk
Turkey
Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker
Rat Snake
Spring Peeper
Flowers bloom after
rains, cold night
because it is dry
Extreme heat, extreme
dryness, sudden floods,
cold nights
Leaves change color
every fall and are shed
every winter
High amount of rainfall,
relatively moderate
temperatures
Grasslands
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Aquatic Biomes
Rivers & Streams
Ponds & Lakes
Milkweed
Prairie
Blazingstar
Coneflower
Stinging Nettle
Poison ivy
Box Elder tree
Silver Maple
tree
Red Bud tree
Bluestem grass
African
Elephant
Bison
Black
Rhinoceros
Black-footed
Ferret
Brown Hyena
Giraffe
Greater Prairie
Chicken
Lion
Ostrich
Prairie Dog
Pronghorn
Warthog
Common Plants/
Animals
 Anaconda
 Arrau River Turtle
 Barbel
 Boutu
 Central
Stoneroller
 Common
Pufferfish
 Dipper
 Eurasian Otter
 Gavial
 Hellbender
 Red Piranha
 Sunbittern
 Blue-green algae
Found on every
continent except
Antarctica
10-30 in. of rain,
between deserts and
forests, fertile soil
Interesting Features
Weather/Climate
Covers only .3% of the
Earth’s surface
Varies with location of
the river
Pond can freeze solid if
Large amounts of wind,
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Wetlands
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Shorelines
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Green algae
Euglenoids
Dinoflagellates
Diatoms
Bitterling
Bullfrog
Common Carp
Great Crested
Grebe
Great White
Pelican
Green and Gold
Bell Frog
Lake Trout
Largemouth Bass
Platypus
Rough-skinned
Newt
Spectacled Caiman
Zambesi Softshell
American Alligator
American Bittern
Boat-billed Heron
Black-winged Stilt
Cape Lopez
Lyretail
Common Snipe
Dwarf Siren
Gold Spiny Reed
Frog
Siamese
Fightingfish
South American
Lungfish
Two-toed
Amphiuma
Walking Catfish
Conger Eel
Avocet
Crab Plover
Herring Gull
Magnificent
Frigatebird
Snowy Sheathbill
White-collared
Kingfisher
it is cold enough
temperature varies
with pressure
Has different habitants
for different seasons
1-6 feet of water,
constantly fluctuating
Sand mixed by tides,
which bring nutrients
as much as they take
them
High levels of salt and
calcium, very windy,
cool
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Tropical Oceans
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Diamondback
Terrapin
Estuarine
Crocodile
White-bellied
Mangrove Snake
California Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
Atlantic Hagfish
Atlantic Salmon
Basking Shark
Greenland Halibut
Lanternfish
Skate
Spiny Eel
Black-legged
Kittiwake
Emperor Penguin
Gray Whale
Northern Bottlenosed Whale
Sowerby's Beaked
Whale
Cnidarians
Crustaceans
Echinoderms
Mollusks
Sponges
Blue Marlin
Clown
Anemonefish
Great Barracuda
Porcupinefish
Skipjack Tuna
Smooth
Hammerhead
Stonefish
Brown Booby
Green Turtle
Hawksbill
Dugong
Finless Porpoise
Cnidarians
Crustaceans
Echinoderms
Mollusks
Produces nearly half of
all available oxygen
because of
phytoplankton
Surface is warm, deep
ocean is cold
Contain the coral reefs
Cold, sea floor, very
fragile
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Sponges
Biomes
Rainforest
Tundra
Taiga
Desert
Temperate
Grasslands
Rivers & Streams
Ponds & Lakes
Wetlands
Shorelines
Temperate Oceans
Plant/Animal Adaptations
 Bark
 Lianas
 Drip tips
 Buttresses
 Prop and Stilt roots
 Epiphytes
 Bromeliads
 Mangroves
 Nepenthes
 Resistance to humidity and hot
temperatures
 Don’t need much soil
 Don’t need much water
 Adapted to cold temperature
 Grow red leaves to absorb more heat
 Grow in clumps
 Brightly colored to spread seeds
 Thick fur
 Hibernation
 Thick Bark
 Large coats
 Store water in waiting for rain
 Expands to hold more water
 Thorns to protect themselves from
predators
 Trees shed their leaves in the winter to
help them survive
 Toxin in milkweed helps the monarch
butterfly become poisonous to predators
 Constantly moving
 Allows for nutrients to be cycled
constantly
 Mixed with the seasons to expose the
whole lake to the environment
 Serve as disaster protection
 Holds water from floods
 Plants used to add nutrients to the lake
 Migration to this area for specific breeding
 Tougher skin/scales
 Eat small organisms in large amounts
 Larger eyes for areas with little light
 Reflective colors to escape predators
Tropical Oceans
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Light producing for areas with no light
Shapes and colors create camouflage
Appearing as a non-living object