Terrestrial Biome Puzzle TERRESTRIAL BIOME PUZZLE KEY

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Terrestrial Biome PuzzleTERRESTRIAL BIOME PUZZLE KEY

TEMPERATE TAIGA TEMPERATE TUNDRA DECIDUOUS (Boreal Forest) GRASSLAND FOREST 0oC to 25oC 6oC to 28oC AVERAGE -26oC to 12oC -10oC to 14oC Has both cool and warm Has both cool and TEMPERATURE cold year round Cool year round seasons warm seasons

35-75 cm 75-125 cm 25 – 75 cm ANNUAL <25 cm Adequate Rainfall to Adequate Rainfall to Wet season and dry PRECIPITATION dry support trees support trees season Thin, nutrient poor soil Moist with moderately Deep layer of nutrient Low in nutrients and SOIL over frozen thick topsoil, Rich in rich topsoil; Good for Acidic Permafrost nutrients (humus) farming Strong, very cold winds Coniferous forest with with little long winters but mild 4 seasons (spring, warm to hot summers DESCRIPTION precipitation, short & summers when ground summer, winter, fall) and cool to cold winters soggy summers thaws Grasses, sedges, moss, Pines, cedars, spruce, Oaks, pecan, maples, Lush, perennial grasses, PRODUCERS lichens fir trees hickories, willows few scattered trees Moose, hares, Geese Squirrels, rabbits, Lemmings, Caribou, & Deer, prairie dogs, HERBIVORES and Migratory white-tailed deer, musk oxen buffalo waterfowl songbirds

Snowy owls, Arctic wild hogs, fox, raccoon, Wolves, coyotes, badgers, CARNIVORES Bears, wolves, lynx foxes, Migratory birds coyotes, bears grizzly bears, armadillo Name: ______Period: ______

TERRESTRIAL BIOME PUZZLE KEY TROPICAL TROPICAL RAIN DESERT SAVANNA FOREST 7oC to 38oC AVERAGE 16oC to 34oC 20oC to 34oC May be very cold or TEMPERATURE Always warm Always warm and humid very hot 75-150cm 200-400cm ANNUAL < 25cm 6 month rainy season Rains almost daily; long, PRECIPITATION Very dry year round (monsoon) wet season Dry, thin layer of Dry, often sandy soil, Moist thin topsoil that SOIL topsoil; porous; low in low in nutrients is low in nutrients nutrients Alternating wet and Low precipitation with dry seasons with large Located near the extreme temperature DESCRIPTION number of herbivores equator; called jungles changes ( hot in day & & lots of migratory or tropics cold at night) animals Cacti, succulents, Canopy layer of Creosote bushes, vegetation, vines, Tall grasses, acacia PRODUCERS vegetation that stores epiphytes like orchids trees water with waxy & bromeliads, tropical cuticles ferns Parrots, monkeys, Lizards, tortoises, mule Giraffe, elephant, HERBIVORES chimpanzees, gorillas, deer, camels zebra, wildebeest large insects & spiders CARNIVORES Roadrunners, peccary, Lions, hyenas, vultures, Anaconda, emerald rattlesnakes, kit fox meerkats tree boa, jaguars, giant Name: ______Period: ______

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