1. Habitat, Microhabitat, & Biome

2. Draw a habitat with plants and animals on your right page “Habitat”!
Habitats
Draw a habitat with plants and animals on your right page “Habitat”!

3. Habitat Adjustment
Draw a close up of one section within their habitat, for example: under a rock, in the tree, etc.. along with its biotic organisms that live there. 

4. Habitat
Type of environment in which a population or species regularly lives.
Physical and biotic environment
Vegetation
Forest, meadow, pasture, coniferous forest, etc.

5. Microhabitat Habitats may be subdivided into layers or zones
Microhabitats “Micro-: tiny”
Forest canopy: leaves, branches
Shrub layer: leaves, branches, trunks
Herb layer: leaves, stems, mosses, ferns
Litter: dead fallen leaves, logs,
Varies in depth, quality
Soil: topsoil, subsoil

6. Biome
A geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features.
Classified by climate, vegetation, and animals.

7. TUNDRA
Print in color

8. TAIGA
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9. GRASSLAND
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10. DESERT
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11. TROPICAL FOREST
Print in color

12. TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST
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13. Color in Biome map
03 June 2010
Habitat.ppt

14. Where do I live? Why?

15. Where do I live? Why?

16. Where do I live?

17. Exit
Using your picture from the beginning of class explain what biome your picture is from and why? (what biotic and abiotic features make your picture from that biome)
03 June 2010
Habitat.ppt