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What is a Biome?

What is a Biome?. Biomes are areas of the world defined by climate and geography Often referred to as large ecosystems What are some examples of biomes? rain forest desert grassland temperate deciduous forest others?. Climate. Climate is defined by 2 non-living factors

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What is a Biome?

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  1. What is a Biome? • Biomes are areas of the world defined by climate and geography • Often referred to as large ecosystems • What are some examples of biomes? • rain forest • desert • grassland • temperate deciduous forest • others?

  2. Climate • Climate is defined by 2 non-living factors • Annual average precipitation (rainfall) • Annual average temperature • Climate plays a major role in determining world biomes • Biomes can be represented on a graph • Rainfall on the X-axis • Temperature on Y-axis • This graph is called a Whittaker graph

  3. Whittaker Graph 30°C (86°F) savannah tropical dry forest rainforest desert tropical 20°C (68°F) rainforest temperate deciduous forest temperate grasslands 10°C (50°F)  colder hotter  taiga Average Temperature Biomes of the World tundra 0°C (32°F) -10°C (14°F) 80 120 160 40  drier wetter  Annual Precipitation (inches)

  4. What Biome Am I? I give you an image and the climate… …you give me the biome

  5. Desert • avg. precipitation: 5 in/yr • avg. temperature: 25 C

  6. Tropical Rainforest • avg. precipitation: 120 in/yr • avg. temperature: 25 C

  7. Grassland • avg. precipitation: 20 in/yr • avg. temperature: 10 C

  8. Temperate Rainforest • avg. precipitation: 100 in/yr • avg. temperature: 15 C

  9. Tundra • avg. precipitation: 5 in/yr • avg. temperature: -10 C

  10. Temperate Deciduous Forest • avg. precipitation: 45 in/yr • avg. temperature: 10 C

  11. Taiga • avg. precipitation: 40 in/yr • avg. temperature: 0 C

  12. Desert • avg. precipitation: 8 in/yr • avg. temperature: 0 C

  13. Savannah • avg. precipitation: 30 in/yr • avg. temperature: 25 C

  14. Taiga • avg. precipitation: 50 in/yr • avg. temperature: 5 C

  15. Tropical Deciduous Forest • avg. precipitation: 80 in/yr • avg. temperature: 25 C

  16. Tundra • avg. precipitation: 10 in/yr • avg. temperature: -8 C

  17. Ocean • avg. precipitation: 100 in/yr • avg. temperature: 20 C

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