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Biomes

Explore the diverse biomes of the Earth, from tropical rainforests to tundras, and learn about the unique characteristics of water ecosystems like estuaries and freshwater habitats. Discover the importance of these ecosystems and the impact of human activity on their health.

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Biomes

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

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

  19. Phytoplankton • Microscopic Algae

  20. Zooplankton • Tiny herbivores

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

  22. Characteristics • They cannot live in salt water

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

  24. 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

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