Biomes

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Biomes
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• A biome is one of Earths large ecosystems, with
  its own kind of climate, soil, plants, and
  animals.

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Six major biomes

• Desert
• Tropical rain forest
• Temperate rainforest
• Grassland
• Deciduous forest
• Boreal
• Tundra

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Desert

• A sandy or rocky biome, with less than 25 cm of
  precipitation and little plant life. Temperatures
  changes during the course of the day.

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Animals of the Desert

• Rodents, snakes, lizards, tortoises, insects, and
  some birds. The Sahara Desert in Africa is home
  to camels, gazelles, antelopes, small foxes,
  snakes, lizards, and gerbils

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Rain-Forest Temperate and Tropical

• Temperate More than 300 cm or rain, moderate
  temperatures
• Tropical A hot, humid biome near the equator,
  with much rainfall and a wide variety of life

equator
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Animals of the Tropical Rain Forest

• More species of insects, reptiles, and amphibians
  than any place else monkeys, other small and
  large mammals, including in some places
  elephants, all sorts of colorful birds

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Grassland

• A biome where grasses, not trees, are the main
  plant life. Prairies are one kind of grassland
  region.
• 25-75 cm of rain per year, moderate temperatures

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Grassland animals

• American Grasslands Prairie dogs, foxes, small
  mammals, snakes, insects, various birds

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Grassland animals

• African Grasslands/Savanna(more rain than
  grasslands) Elephants, lions, zebras, giraffes

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Deciduous Forest

• A forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose
  their leaves each autumn
• At least 50 cm of rain per year. Temperatures
  vary throughout year.

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Animals of the Deciduous Forest

• Wolves, deer, bears, and a wide variety of small
  mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and insects

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Boreal Forest/Taiga

• A cool forest biome of conifers in the upper
  Northern Hemisphere
• Cold climate. Water frozen most of year. Low
  amounts of precipitation.

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Animals of the Boreal Forest/ Taiga

• Rodents, snowshoe hares, lynx, sables, ermine,
  caribou, bears, wolves, birds in summer

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Tundra

• A cold biome of the far north the ground is
  frozen even in summer.
• Very cold and dry. Dry as a desert.

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Animals of the Tundra

• Musk oxen, migrating caribou, arctic foxes,
  weasels, snowshoe hares, owls, hawks, various
  rodents, occasional polar bear.