• Temperature: 68oF - 93oF• Rainfall: Up to 158 inches per

year!• Animals: Insects, Birds,

Monkeys, Wild Cats• Plants: Ferns, Canopy Trees,

Vines

• The rain forest has the greatest diversity of life!

• Temperature: 14oF - 52oF• Rainfall: Up to 30 inches per year• Animals: Hibernate and Migrate

(Deer, Moose, Squirrels, Lynx)• Plants: Evergreens (needle-like)

• Long cold winters

• Temperature: 43oF - 82oF• Rainfall: Up to 50 inches per year• Animals: Birds, Rabbits, Foxes• Plants: Trees that loose leaves,

moss, grasses

• We live here! Fall colors!

• Temperature: 32oF - 86oF• Rainfall: Up to 30 inches per year• Animals: Prairie dogs, mice,

bison, elephants, zebras, gazelles.• Plants: Grasses and seed-bearing

plants

• Can be called the steppe, savanna, prairie or pampas depending on where you live!

• Very good soil!

• Temperature: 45oF - 100oF• Rainfall: Less than 10 inches per

year• Animals: Kangaroo rats, jack

rabbits, lizards• Plants: Plants with roots close to

the surface of the ground.

• In animals and plants, water storage is the goal!

• Temperature: -14oF - 53oF• Rainfall: Less than 20 inches per

year• Animals: Caribou, oxen, wolves,

lemming.• Plants: Lichen, shrubs

• Has permafrost, soggy soil, lakes and ponds.

Tundra Deciduous Forest

SavannaTaiga Chaparral RainforestGrasslands Desert Alpine

Desert-scrub

• Where the Ocean meets the land

• Tide comes in and out

• Continental Shelf (fairly shallow)

• A lot of sunlight

• Warm, clear water

• Open/Deep Water

• No Sunlight more than 200 m

• Sea Floor

• Dark, Cold

• Organisms use chemosynthesis

Plants, no trees

Plants AND trees

•Where fresh water meets salt water

• Ponds

• Lakes

• Rivers