• 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
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