Plants Climate Tropical Life Animals Deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in fall, This biome is known for Tropical rainforest Rainforests may contain as much as Carnivores such as bears, dominate this biome. Shrubs, ferns, herbs, and having four seasons. keep fairly constant 50% of all plant and animal species on wolves, and lynx feed on moose, mosses grow on the shady forest floor. Temperatures range from at 25℃ year round Earth. Almost every type of animal can snowshoe hare, and shrews. 30℃ to -30℃ from and can get 600 cm be found there. Animals summer to winter. The of rain yearly. Plants Climate Many birds, insects, amphibians, and average temperature is Layers Taiga have many The taiga (a cold The emergent layer is treetops protruding reptiles, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, 10℃, and an average of Temperate cone-bearing forest) is the world’s 100 cm of rain and snow out over the rest of the forest. wood mice, deer, bears, bobcats, Temperate evergreen trees. These largest biome. falls each year. The canopy consists of tall overlapping cougars, wolves, and coyotes live here. rainforests average block out the sunlight Precipitation trees that cover the rest of the forest. 10℃ in temperature so that only lichens averages 60 cm per The understory is small trees and shrubs and 300 cm in rain and mosses can grow year and average that receive little light and compete for each year. on the forest floor. temperature is 0℃. Temperate nutrients with the roots of canopy trees. Deciduous The forest floor is covered with detritus, dead or decaying organic matter. Fungi, Plants Climate Forest moss, and ferns may live here. Tundra have low A tundra is like a Taiga growing lichens, cold desert. Average Rainforest mosses, and grasses precipitation is 25 Climate adapted to drought cm/year and average Deserts are the driest biome, receiving and cold. temperature is -12℃. less than 25 cm of rain each year. The land is bare because the soil doesn’t Animals Biomes have much organic matter. Insects and migratory birds come Tundra during the summer. Caribou, lemmings, Desert Animals artic hare, fox, musk ox, and small Many animals are nocturnal and stay in rodents stay year round. the shade or underground to stay cool. They get most of their water from their Permafrost food and concentrate their urine to save Permafrost is the Freshwater fluids. Some animals go dormant and layer of permanently These ecosystems Aquatic Grasslands become active again during rainfalls. frozen soil present include flowing water (rivers, Plants in tundra. creeks) and Plants tend to be tough and standing water Plants wiry with small or no leaves, (lakes, ponds, Classification Climate Grasslands water-resistant cuticles, and support grasses Marine wetlands). 3% of The aquatic biome includes Grasslands get 25-75 cm spines to deter consumption. and grass-like These ecosystems Earth’s water is habitats that are dominated Definition of rain yearly. Dry contain a high salt freshwater, and by water. The amount of A large geographic seasons stop trees from plants. content and provide half of that is salt (salinity) in the water area with similar growing, so grasses nearly half of the oxygen frozen. Fish, determines whether it is ecosystems and prevail. Grasslands can be Animals climate (temperature on Earth. They include amphibians, considered freshwater or tropical (warm and Grasslands support high numbers of grazing and precipitation). oceans, seas, coastal crustaceans, marine. The amount of humid) or temperate (cold animals like buffalo, antelope, and zebras, which Biomes contribute to inlets, tide pools, and plants, and sunlight and oxygen it winters), so the yearly in turn support predators such as lions and coyotes. Earth’s biodiversity. estuaries. They make up microbes live in receives helps further temperature range can be - Many birds and small mammals also live in a large part of the planet. this environment. classify these habitats. 20℃ to 30℃. grasslands.