• 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