The Seven Biomes of the
World
By: Ms. Alisca
Taiga
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Climate:
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Location:
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Evergreens
Needle leaf
Coniferous
Animals:
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Northern hemisphere
Plants:
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cold winters; cool summers
About 20 inches of
precipitation per year
Animals specialized for all
types of weather like foxes,
otters and wolves.
Facts:
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The winters are up to six
months long with cold
temperatures and short
summers. They only have 50-100
frost free days.
The Caribou is becoming
extinct because of hunting,
fires, disease and wolves.
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Climate:
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Plants that have good water storage like
cacti.
Animals:
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Mostly in Africa, North America and
South America
Plants:
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Desert
Location:
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VERY hot days; cool nights
Less than 4 inches of precipitation per year
Elephants (who retain body heat through
their ears), lions, antelope, snakes and
lizards.
Facts:
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Mountains on the edge of deserts
prevent rain from entering. The rain
stays on the other side of the mountain
creating rain forests next to many
deserts. These deserts are called rain
shadows.
An increase in population has caused a
decrease in water, and animals are
finding it harder and harder to find
healthy plants to eat because the plants
aren’t getting their proper nutrients to
grow.
Rainforest
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Climate:
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Location:
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Shrubs, Cyprus and Cedar trees
Animals:
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Mostly near the Equator, Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, Central and South America
Plants:
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very hot and humid; about 100 inches of precipitation per year
due to the humidity, tropical rainforests have a larger variety of animals than any other
biome. Some animals there include monkeys, birds, frogs and rodents.
Facts:
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Rain forests cover only 2% of the earth's surface, but they contain more than half of the
planet's plant and animal species
Rain forests are becoming more and more extinct by the day because people keep on cutting
down trees, making it harder for the animals to find shelter to survive.
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Climate:
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tall grasses like buffalo grass, ryegrass, foxtail, wild oats, and purple needle grass.
Animals:
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South Africa, Central North America and the Soviet Union.
Plants:
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differ from summer to winter; about 30 inches of precipitation per year.
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Grassland
prairie dogs, coyotes, skunks, quails and bison
Facts:
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grasslands are usually in-between the desert and the forest; it could become a forest
if the grasslands received any more rain and a desert if it received any less rain.
Overgrazing is a growing problem in grasslands, and it is causing for the plants to
become weaker and drier, making them more vulnerable to fires.
Deciduous Forest
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Climate:
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Location:
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dogwood, maple and oak
trees
Animals:
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eastern half of the United
States, Canada, Europe,
parts of Russia and Asia
Plants:
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cool temperatures; about
40 inches of precipitation
per year.
raccoons, deer and
salamander
Facts:
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Deciduous means ‘tending
to fall off’, and since all of
the trees leaves fall off in
the forest, it got the name
deciduous.
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Climate:
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Moss, shrubs and liverworts (a
flat version of moss)
Animals:
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North America, Greenland,
Asia, Europe and the
mountains of Africa and
South America
Plants:
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extremely cold climate; about
10 inches of precipitation per
year (mostly snow)
Snowy owls, polar bears and
lemmings (similar to a hamster
or gerbil)
Facts:
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The word tundra comes from
the Finnish word tunturi,
which means a treeless plain.
Oil spills are becoming more
and more prevalent and
causing for animals to die and
lose their homes.
Tundra
Ocean
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Climate:
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Location:
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Pacific Ocean: the largest of the four
main oceans.
Arctic Ocean: is the smallest and
coldest of the four oceans.
Indian Ocean: bordered by Asia,
Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
Atlantic Ocean: the busiest because it
is the one used to transport cargo.
Oil spills, trash and toxic waste are
making it hard for the animals in the
underwater habitat to survive
Algae, coral and seaweed
Animals:
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Facts:
¾ or 75% of the Earth’s surface
Plants:
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The ocean temperature is normally
around 40˚F, but it changes in
different parts of the world.
Fish, sharks and dolphins
Sources
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Macmillan McGraw- Hill [science] North Carolina- textbook
Google Images
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