Types of biomes

Desert

• Little water• Extreme temperature changes• Hot and Dry• Difficult to adapt

• Includes: Hot and Dry, Semiarid, Coastal, and Cold deserts

Forests

• Dominated by trees and plants• Diverse in terms of kinds of species

• Includes: Tropical, Decidiuous, and Taiga

• Recit: Destroy a forest. Give a side effect.

Freshwater

• Has water that has a salt level < 1%• A lot of plants and animals• Source of drinking water

• includes: Ponds, lakes, Streams, Rivers and Wetlands

Grassland

• Filled with grasses • Length of grasses depend on amount of

rainfall

Marine

• covers more of the Earth’s surface than any other – about 70%

• provides most of the rainwater

Tundra

• Cold climate• Remains wet because of the cold temp that

delays evaporation• What does tunturi mean?

• Mosses and lichens