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Tundra Boreal Forest Temperate Tropical Rain Grassland Desert (Taiga) Deciduous Forest Forest
It is flat and covered Spotted with many It ranges from flat to It is masked, for the It is flat, with very It is flat, with either with snow most of the lakes, much of the mountainous. most part, by thick fertile soils. rocks or sand covering year. Bogs and ground is marshy. vegetation. the ground. marshes form in the Terrain summer due to the permafrost.
It is cold and dry with Temperatures range There are four It is warm and humid There are two types: It is dry, with less temperatures ranging from -76°F in the distinct seasons—fall, with more than 200 the warm and hot than 10 inches of rain from -76°F to 50°F. winter to 104°F in the winter, spring, and rainy days a year. savannas, and the falling each year. Climate summer. summer, and rainfall temperate prairies. There are both hot is moderate. and cold deserts.
There are mostly There are mostly This is characterized There are four levels Grasses, wildflowers, Species here, like the perennials because of coniferous evergreen by trees that lose of unique plant life— and very few trees cactus and the aloe the short growing trees such as spruce their leaves in fall and emergent, canopy, make up this biome. plant, are adapted to Plants season. Moss, arctic and jack pine. winter. understory, and store water. wildflowers, sedges, forest floor. and dwarf trees are common.
Some live here year Moose, ducks, bears, Wild turkey, whitetail At least half of Grazing animals and Most animals found round, like the polar and wolves are all deer, and opossums Earth’s species live small ground species here, including snakes bear, while others, inhabitants of the are common in this here, including such as prairie dogs and scorpions, are Animals like snow geese, taiga. biome in North monkeys, parrots, are common in North nocturnal. migrate to warmer America. snakes, etc. America. Meerkats climates in winter. are a common species in Africa.