Biomes Of The World

By: Kayla Wilson

Tundra• Climate: Normally winter is

about -34 degrees Celsius and summer is 3-12 degrees Celsius.

• Animals: Herbivores such as lemming, voles, caribou, arctic hares, and squirrels. Carnivores such as foxes, wolves, and polar bears. Migratory birds such as ravens, falcons, loons, sandpipers, terns, and snowbirds.

• Landscape: Cover in snow and stays in snow.

• Plants: Low scrubs, sedges, mosses, liverworts, and grasses. Lots of varieties of flowers. Lichens

Taiga • Climate: In winter -20 degrees Celsius

in normal . In summer 18 degrees Celsius.

• Animals: In march animals such as red squirrels and wolverines give birth. Other such as river otters, minks, martens, and ermines have young in spring. Such as gray foxes and red squirrels try to avoid the snow so have young latter on. Migrating animals include ducks, geese, water fowl, goshawks, red tailed hawks, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, red beasted nut hatches, golden and ruby crowned kinglets, robins, hermit thrushes, cedar waxwings, and woodpeckers.

• Plants: Spruce, fir, pine, deciduous larch, or tamarack. Contains many plants in the spring early summer.

• Landscape: low precipitation, low evaporation, soils poor in nutrients, contains many flora in the spring early summer.

Temperate Forest

• Climate: 50 degrees Fahrenheit, summer 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Animals: Squirrels, bears, and migratory birds.

• Plant: Majority is pine trees, that’s leave change color in the fall

• Landscape: - 30-60 inches of precipitation.

Grass land

• Climate: Range from 0-20 degrees Celsius for annual temperatures.

• Animals: Buffalo, deer, prairie dogs, gophers, migratory birds, antelope, bison, and many more.

• Plants: Many species of grass, purple needle grass, wild oats, foxtail, ryegrass, and buffalo grass. From: http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/grassland.html#plants

• Landscape: Very open, mainly level but have a few hills here and there.

Desert

• Climate: Hot in summers, Cool but not freezing in winters.

• Animals: Such as snakes, horn toads, Lizards, deer, coyotes,

• Plants: Palo Verde trees, cactus, and wildflowers.

• Landscape: Fairly open, has hills and mountains spread through biome, very low percipitation.

Salt water

• Climate: coldest in 32 degrees and the average is 88 degrees.

• Animals: Angular fish, sea dragons, sharks, dolphins, seals, killer whales, whales, sea slugs, seahorses, and many more.

• Plants: sea urchin, poisonous crown, coral reef,

• Landscape: Has drops here and there for animals that need a colder region and covered in rocks and plants.

Fresh water

• Climate: Mainly depends on the temperature outside but usually around 80 degrees.

• Animals: ducks, carp, blue gill, crawdads, cat fish, and algae eaters.

• Plants: Algae, water lilies, duck weed, and cattails.

• Landscape: Level mainly but land formations change it.