54 Biome Notes pgs' 214223

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5-4 Biome Notespgs. 214-223

• Mr. Smith
• 6th Grade Science

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Temperate Rain Forest

• Temperature
• Moderate Cool winters, warm summers
• Precipitation
• Wet all year round, 300 cm
• Typical Organisms
• Mule, deer, redwood trees

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Tropical Rain Forest

• Temperature
• Warm all year
• Precipitation
• Wet all year
• Typical Organisms
• Orangutan, insects, mammals, birds, over 300
  species of trees in 100 km area

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Desert

• Temperature
• Usually hot with great daily extremes
• Precipitation
• Dry all year, 25 cm per year
• Typical Organisms
• Gambels quail, cactus, some trees, scorpions,
  reptiles

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Grassland

• Temperature
• Vary throughout the year, Comfortable
• Precipitation
• Mostly dry with a wet season, 25-75 cm/year
• Savannah 120 cm/year
• Typical Organisms
• Grasses, elephants, zebras, giraffes, antelope

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Deciduous Forest

• Temperature
• Warm in summer, cold in winter
• Precipitation
• Moderate rainfall, 50 cm per year
• Typical Organisms
• Red fox, chipmunks, skunks, whitetail deer, black
  bear, maple trees, pine, walnut trees

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Boreal Forest

• Temperature
• Warm to cool in summer, cold in winter
• Precipitation
• Abundant rain and snow
• Typical Organisms
• Red squirrel, lynx, bears, horned owls, fir and
  spruce trees

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Tundra

• Temperature
• Extremely cold all year
• Precipitation
• Dry all year, marshy areas in summer
• Typical Organisms
• Mosses, grasses, small shrubs, wolves, foxes,
  caribou, arctic hare

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Mountains Ice

• Temperature
• Mountain Changes from its base to its summit
• Ice cold all year
• Precipitation
• Mountain Varies by each biome
• Ice-Sheets of ice
• Typical Organisms
• Mountain Varies by biome
• Ice-Emperor penguins, polar bears, leopard seals

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Math-Analyzing Data, pg 223

• X-axis Month y-axis temperature
• Location A is steadyLocation B fluctuates
• A-Tropical RainforestB-Desert
• Location B, cold in winter and warm in the summer