Animals
Plants
Climate
Interesting Facts
Vocabulary
100

musk oxen, polar bears, caribou, wolves and snow hares are found here

What are the animals you would find in the Tundra?

100

Has mostly trees with needles like spruce trees, fir trees, pine trees, bushes, shrubs, and ferns

What are plants of the Taiga?

100

Has a temperature of rarely above freezing, lots of snow and receives less than 25 cm of rain.

What is the Tundra?

100
Low rainfall, fires, and grazing animals prevent widespread growth of trees in this biome.
What is the Grassland?
100
What soil that stays permanently frozen is called.
What is permafrost?
200
insects, spiders, gray squirrel, deer, raccoon, red fox, blue jay birds, salamanders, woodpeckers, and small mammals
What are animals found in the Deciduous Forest?
200

Tumbleweeds, aloe plant, organ-pipe cactus, and mesquite

What are plants of the desert?

200

Receives 75-125 cm of rain and snow each year, and has four seasons.

What is the Deciduous Forest?

200
Rains almost daily and plants grow year-round in this biome.
What is the Tropical Rain Forest
200

The biome is also considered the largest land biome 

What is the Taiga?

300
giraffes, antelope, zebra, ostriches, bison, praire dogs, eagles, snakes, elephants, lions, and cheetahs
What are animals of the Grassland?
300
acacia trees, varieties of short and tall grasses, and grains
What are plants of the grasslands?
300

Receives less than 25 cm of rain each year, and has temperatures that reach freezing at night but very warm during the day. 

What is the Desert?

300

The trees in this biome have waxy needles to prevent freezing and water loss.

What is the Taiga ?

300
The type of trees which lose their leaves in the autumn to save water and keep from freezing.
What is a deciduous tree?
400
ocelots, boa constrictors, monkeys, jaguar, toucans, frogs, and sloth
What are animals of the Tropical Rain Forest?
400
mosses, lichen, birches, cotton grass, and blue lupine
What are plants of the Tundra?
400

Receives a few feet of rain yearly, has a dry and a wet season. During the summer it gets warm enough to cause many wildfires. 

What is the Grassland?

400
Permafrost in this biome prevents large trees from rooting.
What is the Tundra?
400
Another name given to the Grasslands.
What is a savanna, a plain, or a steepe?
500
moose, red squirrels, beavers, wolves, gray owls, snowshoe hare, weasels, and spruce grouse (bird)
What are the animals of the Coniferous Forest?
500
oak, maple, and hickory trees; wild flowers; grasses; ferns and shrubs
What are plants of the Deciduous Forest?
500

Has a temperature range from 80-100 degrees, and at least several feet of rain yearly.

What is the Tropical Rain Forest?

500
Plants in one of these biomes have widespread roots close to the surface to absorb water quickly.
What are the Desert, Tundra, or possibly Grassland?
500
The type of tree which produces cones and keeps its leaves (needles) in the cold weather.
What is a coniferous tree or a conifer?
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