1. Today is Tuesday, October 30, 2012
HOMEWORK:
- Chapter 5 Homework Packet Assigned (due Monday, Nov. 5)
- “A Closer Look at Land Biomes” Worksheet assigned (due Fri., Nov. 2)
Read Chapter 5, Lessons 3 and 4 (to be ready for class tomorrow)
WARM UP:
Be as quiet as you can so as to not miss any important information in the Brain POP video when it starts.

2. Today’s Goal:
SWBAT demonstrate the ability to describe characteristics of different land biomes by completing a reference worksheet giving characteristics and pictures of each biome

3. First up….. Some review……
Temperate Rainforest - Wet, cool climate; mosses cover rocks; lots of rain!!!!!!!!
- Plants: maple, spruce
- Animals: elk, cougar, bears, squirrels, raccoons, owls
- West coast of North America, far Southern Tip of West Coast of South America, and other places.

6. Tropical Rainforest
Most diverse land biome (greatest amount of different kinds of species)
Warm and relatively humid all year long; lots of rain!!!!!!!!!
Plants: orchids, palm trees, banyan trees, ginger, etc. (many!!!!)
Animals: monkeys, kinkajou, civet cat, lizards, tree frogs, etc. (many!!!!)
Found along the equator

9. Deciduous Forest
Cool winters and warm to hot summers; moderate precipitation
Plants: oak, elm, maple, hickory
Animals: bears, snakes, frogs, salamanders, foxes, deer
Eastern United States and Central Europe

11. Grassland
Generally inland and experience a Continental Climate (long bitter cold Winters and short hot Summers – depends how far North or South) with moderate low rainfall – less than deciduous forest
Plants: grasses and wild flowers – very few trees
Animals: prairie dogs, wolves, coyotes, zebra, bison, many types of antelope, re-introduced wild horses (Mongolia)
Central North America, Eastern South America, Central Asia, Central and Southern Africa

13. Taiga
Largest land biome; long, bitter cold Winters and cool Summers; moderate rainfall
Plants: conifers (spruce, fir, pine), tough grass and small tough shrubs (heather), rhubarb
Animals: bear, elk, moose wolves, Siberian tiger, deer
Northern North America and Northern Asia (Southern Siberia and all across Northern Russia into Finland)

15. Desert
Very dry (less than 25cm of rain all year); large temperature fluctuations between day and night. Winters and nights can be freezing cold and Summers and days can be roasting hot to the point of killing a person
Plants: cacti and other succulents; mesquite, acacia, and other tough bushes
Animals: emu, camels, scorpion, black widow spider, rattlesnakes
Found on every continent on Earth – even Antarctica = frozen desert – large deserts in Southwestern US and Northern Mexico, Southwestern Asia, Northern Africa, and Australia

17. Tundra
Very cold biome with very little precipitation; very long, cold, cold, biting cold Winters and short cold Summers; ground is frozen solid most of the year – top layer melts in Summer and stays frozen underneath
Plants: heather and small, short, tough grasses and shrubs
Animals: Rodents (lemmings), rabbits, caribou/reindeer, foxes, weasels, owls
Far Northern North America and far Northern Asia (far Northern Siberia)

19. Closing it up…
Write one thing you learned today in your science notebook and show me before you leave.