Biomes of the World

1. Biomes of the World Gabrielle Fleetwood and Tianna Smith

2. Tropical Rainforests • Located in Belize , Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, French Guyana, Peru, Venezuela. • Organisms that you would find here include insects such as butterflies and beetles, arachnids such as spiders and tics, and bamboo. • Mountains, hills, flat lands, streams, swamps and wet grasslands are some physical landforms located here. • The average yearly rainfall is up to 400cm a year, and the average temperature in the daytime is 93f and 68f at night.

5. Deserts • The Sahara, Atacama, Iranian, Arabian, Namib, Thor, and Patagonian are some of the many deserts there are. • Organisms here include cacti, bushes and shrubby plants, and lizards and other reptiles. • Deserts are known as the hottest biome in the world with temperatures that exceed 100f in the summer and 45f in the winter. • It’s such a dry place because it can get less that 25cm of rainfall a year.

6. Cacti (the most common plant in the desert) is important to this biome. It provides ground cover in hostile environments. • Snakes are also important they serve as a pest control by consuming rodents and insects.

9. Savannah • East African Savanna, Serengeti Plains of Tanzania, South America, Brazil, Columbia are some places where Savannahs are located. • The organisms here are elephants, giraffes, ungulates, herbivores, and carnivores. • Rolling grasslands, grassy ground layer, distinct upper layer of woody plants, dense as wood lands. • The average yearly rainfall is 150cm. Average temperatures are 150f in the dry season, and 61f in the wet season.

10. Animals have adaption of body parts. • Biotic Factors are: elk, bears, and deer. • Abiotic Factors are: Temperature, water, and rainfall • Inter-Relationships include: Predation (lions attacking zebras) Mutualism (the oxpeckers, and the rhinoceros; the oxpecker gets the ticks that are on the rhinos for its food, the rhino gets the ticks taken off it. the oxpeckers also warn the rhinos of any danger that may be lurking.)

13. Taiga • Stretches over Eurasia and North America, Canada, Siberia, Scandinavia, Alaska, and Sweden. • Pine, moose, elk, wolves, grizzly bears, wood peckers, lynx, foxes, and conifer trees are some of the many organisms that you would find here. • Landforms here such as plains only exist at high latitudes and mountains at low latitudes. They typically exist in mountain ranges.

14. Average yearly rainfall in this biome is 150 cm and the average temperature is 93f in the dry season and 61f in the wet season. • Producers here are oak trees, maple trees, coneda, and fortuna. • Consumers here are opossums, cardinals, squirrels, and gray fox.

17. Tundra • Stretches over Antarctica, North Pole, South Pole, Northern portions of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and North America. • Millions of ducks, loons, gulls, geese, sandpipers, artic tern, foxes, moose, songbirds and hare. • Landscapes here are formed by the freezing, thawing, and the freezing of soggy soil.

18. Yearly rainfall in this biome is 30 to 50 cm. a year and the average temperature is 54f in the summer and -14f in the winter.

21. Fresh Water • Fresh water biomes are found all throughout the world. Includes wetlands, streams, lakes, rivers, and ponds. Specific locations include: Lake Baikal located in Central Asia, and Lake Tahoe. • Organisms that live there include: Algae, cattails, brine-spike, deer flower, swamp frond, and tamarack . • Landforms are corral reefs, islands, sea mounts, and beaches.

22. Climate is cooler at the source than it is at the mouth, during the summer temp. ranges from 39f to 4c in the winter. They ranger from top to bottom. • Abiotic factors here are rocks, water, temperature, and soil. • Biotic factors here are algae, fish such as bass, trout, and salmon.

25. Deciduous Forest • Found in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Russia, Japan, Eastern China, Southern Chile, Middle East Paraguay. • Organism found here are American bald eagles, American black bear, Coyote, Duckbill platypus, Eastern Chipmunk, European Red Squirrel, Least Weasels, and many more. • Landforms here are mountains, Appalachian, , Cumberland mountains, Mountain Mitchell, Blue Ridge, and the green mountains. • Yearly rainfall is 29-47 inches a year. And the average temperature in the summer is 82f and 42f in the winter.

26. The things that provide life (producers) are oak trees, maple trees, and Fortuna. Consumers are opossums, cardinals and squirrels. • Symbiotic relationships here are parasitism (ticks feed on deer) and mutualistic (bees feed on nectar and spread it to other flowers).

29. Salt Water • Found in Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Artic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Bays, Gulfs, and Reefs. • Organisms that live here are, sea urchins, sea veggies, angler fish, and poisonous crown. • Landscape includes, underwater volcanoes, sea mounts, corral reefs, and tombolo. • Coldest temp. for the Pacific Ocean is 32f the warmest is 82f.

30. Sea urchins in the 1980’s caused a sea urchin population and sea weed decreased. • Imperial shrimp and sea cucumbers are an example of a mutualistic relationship. (shrimp rides on cucumber’s back and gets off at food source)

33. Thanks For Watching!