1. BIOMES
Created by Nancy Robbins, Sunnyside

2. What is a Biome? Environment Land Water Plants Animals
This is a biome map. What type of map it? What does it tell you?

3. Tropical Rain Forest
Receives high levels of precipitation, inches a year
Temperatures, degrees F
Tall trees, canopy
Thin soil, lacks nutrients
Animals live in tree branches – monkeys, birds, insects
Review what precipitation is: any form of water that falls to the earth

4. Desert
Receives very little precipitation, less than 10 inches annually – dry
Poor soil, little organic matter
Supports little life
Cacti, birds, snakes, rodents, big horn sheep

5. Temperate Deciduous Forest
Temperatures are moderate
Precipitation year round
Many deciduous trees
Rich soil – lots of organic matter
Deer, birds, fox, squirrel, earthworms

6. Grassland Area covered with grass
Not enough precipitation to support trees, more than 10 inches a year
Fertile and deep top soil – good farmland, wheat
Bison, cattle, sheep, horses

7. Chaparral Temperate shrub land Cool, rain in winter Hot summers
Very little rain
Poor soil, precipitation
leaches the soil
Short woody plants with
simple evergreen leaves
Flammable – fire helps seed germinate
Great horned owl, chipmunks, lizards

8. Temperate Rain Forest
High levels of precipitation, 150 – 200 inches annually
Moderate temperatures rarely drop below freezing
Tall coniferous trees, ferns, fungi
Deer, salmon, arachnids

9. Taiga Northern Coniferous Forest Long, cold winters Short summers
Soil is either very cold or very dry
Precipitation is mostly snow
Elk, deer, caribou, wolves, black bears

10. Tundra Treeless plains of northern region Dark, cold, long winters
Intense sun in summer
Thin layer of soil, frozen below
Low grasses and shrubs
Soil is mostly frozen