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BIOME CHART BIOME

TUNDRA

TIAGA

TEMPERATE DECIDOUS FOREST

TROPICAL RAIN FOREST

NAME ___________________________________ PD __________ CLIMATE Transitional climate between the Subarctic and ice cap climate. Characterized by very cold temperatures and generally dry conditions.

LOCATION Tundra regions are found in the northern and southern hemispheres between the ice-covered poles and the taiga or coniferous forests.

BIOTIC FACTOR - Fungi - Mosses - Shrubs - Insects - Fish - Birds - Mammals

ABIOTIC FACTOR - Temperature - Wind - Rain - Snow - Sunlight - Soil - Rocks - Permafrost

Cold, harsh climate, low rate of precipitation, and short growing season. Summers are short, and long severe winters last up to 6 months.

Northern Canada, Alaska, and Siberia The taiga is a forest of the cold, subarctic region. The subarctic is in an area of the northern hemisphere that lies just south of the arctic circle.

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Black bear Bald eagle Red fox Wolverine Balsam fir Siberian spruce White poplar

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Sunlight Water Boulders Soil Clouds Lightning Hail Floods Temperature

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Plants Animals Bacteria Leaves

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Sunlight Temperature Water Soil Clouds

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Toucans Frogs Snakes Lizards

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Humidity Soil composition Temperature Sunlight

Have temperatures that range from -22 to 86 degrees. Annual rainfall 30-60 in, and snow.

Temperature rarely gets higher than 93 or drops below 68 degrees. Average humidity between 77&88%; rainfall is more than 100 in a year.

Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia Located primarily in the eastern half of the United States, Canada, Europe, parts of Russia, Chile, and Japan

Tropical rainforests are typically found in central and south America, western and central Africa, western India, and Southeast Asia, the island of New Guinea and Australia.

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DESERT

TEMPERATE GRASSLAND/SAVANNA

CHAPARRAL

NAME ___________________________________ PD __________ CLIMATE Temperatures may reach 100 degrees or more. Deserts receive less than 10 in of rain a year. Cold deserts have short, moist, and moderately warm summers. In winter, temperatures can plummet below 0 degrees, but in the summer they can reach over 90 degrees. Receive low to moderate precipitation a year (25-30 in) Very hot, and dry. Winters tend to be very mild, temperatures around 50 degrees. The winter is not very rainy, but moist. Fires and droughts are very common over the summer.

LOCATION The hot deserts of the world are located between 15 and 30 degrees north or south of the equator, where the air is subsiding or sinking. Include the plains and prairies of eastern Washington State, and other grasslands in the southwest. They can also be found between the Ukraine and Russia

In the west coast of continents. North America, South America, South Africa, and Australia. Also along the Mediterranean Sea.

BIOTIC FACTOR - Desert grass - Cacti - Yucca plant - Prickly pears - Desert cottontail - Rattle snakes - Hawk - Grass - Trees - Antelope - Prairie dogs

ABIOTIC FACTOR - Precipitation - Water availability - Sunlight - Temperature

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Rocks Dort River Temperature

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Soil Precipitation Sunlight

Plants Animals Birds Fish Mammals Insects Reptiles

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