1. Biomes

2. Biomes
One of the Earth’s large ecosystems, with its climate, soil, plants, and animals.

3. Climate Zone
A region that has the same patterns of temperature, rainfall, and sunlight

4. Tropical Rain Forest Location: Near Equator
Climate: Hot, Humid, Lots of Rainfall
Soil: Poor Soil
Plants: Wide variety of plants
Animals: Reptiles, amphibians, mammals, etc.
Important Characteristics: Most complicated food web

5. Little sunlight and water penetrates the thick canopy (tons of trees)

6. Deciduous Forest
Location: Every continent except Africa and Antarctica
Climate: Hot summers, cold winters
Soil: Rich soil
Plants: Many kinds of trees that lose leaves every fall
Animals: All types
Important Characteristics: “We live here”
Deciduous means “decay”

7. Grasslands Location: All continents except Antarctica
Climate: Rainfall irregular, cool winters, hot summers
Soil: Rich Soil
Plants: Grass, Small Shrubs, Farmlands
Animals: Small animals, large herds
Important Characteristics: Important for world agriculture

8. “Bread basket of the world”
Most crops are grown there (wheat and oats)

9. Desert Location: Midlatitudes Climate: Little precipitation, very hot\
Soil: Sandy and rocky
Plants: very little plants, cacti
Animals: Reptiles, small mammals
Important Characteristics: Plants grow deep roots to find scarce water

10. Sahara Desert

11. Taiga Location: Northern Hemisphere (Europe, Asia, North America)
Climate: Cool
Soil: Mineral Poor Soil
Plants: Forest with numerous conifers (evergreens)
Animals: Birds, wolves, bears
Important Characteristics: Covers 11% of Earth’s land

12. Tundra Location: Far North Climate: Cold all year long
Soil: Spongy Topsoil-
permafrost (permanently frozen)
Plants: Treeless, small plants that have short growing seasons
Animals: Caribou, polar bears, etc
Important Characteristic: No sunlight during the winter

13. Three types of water ecosystems
Saltwater, Freshwater, Brackish Water (Estuaries)

14. Intertidal Zone
Area near the edge of the ocean where organisms must be able to live on land and water

15. Animals
Crabs, clams, sea stars

16. Zone has most organisms
More sunlight
Producers
Consumers
Shelter

17. After the intertidal zone with calm waters
Near-shore Zone
After the intertidal zone with calm waters

18. The deepest, biggest part of the ocean
Open-Ocean Zone
The deepest, biggest part of the ocean

19. Phytoplankton
Microscopic Algae

20. Zooplankton
Tiny herbivores

21. Lakes, streams, rivers, ponds Animals: Frogs, turtles
Freshwater
Lakes, streams, rivers, ponds
Animals: Frogs, turtles

22. They cannot live in salt water
Characteristics
They cannot live in salt water

23. An ecosystem with a mixture of fresh and salt water
Estuary
An ecosystem with a mixture of fresh and salt water

24. They cannot live in shallow waters
Why not?
They cannot live in shallow waters

25. Harmed by human activity
Close to the mouths of the rivers, where ships and boats travel
Close to ocean where people live and vacation