Biomes
This biome is hot, dry, and gets very little rain. You’ll find cacti and lizards here.
What is the desert?
This top ocean layer gets the most sunlight and is where most sea life is found.
What is the epipelagic zone (sunlight zone)
This covers about 70% of Earth’s surface and is filled with salt water.
Only about 3% of all the water on Earth is this type of water we can drink.
What is freshwater?
We have this many main oceans on Earth.
What is 5 oceans?
This biome is the largest on Earth and is made up of salt water.
What is the ocean?
This ocean layer lies just below the sunlight zone, is darker, and home to animals like squid and lanternfish.
What is the mesopelagic zone (twilight zone)?
The largest ocean on Earth, it touches the coasts of Asia, Australia, and the Americas.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Most of Earth’s freshwater is frozen in these icy landforms found at the poles.
What are glaciers (or ice caps)?
What is fishing and swimming?
This biome has four seasons—spring, summer, fall, and winter—and trees that lose their leaves in autumn.
What is the temperate deciduous forest?
This layer, starting around 3,300 feet deep, is completely dark and very cold.
What is the bathypelagic zone (midnight zone)?
The ocean’s salt comes mostly from these tiny bits of rock that get washed into the sea by rivers.
What are minerals?
This is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, located between the U.S. and Canada.
What is Lake Superior?
This is the deepest part of the ocean explored by humans.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This biome covers much of northern Canada, Russia, and Alaska. It is very cold, with permafrost and very few trees.
What is the tundra?
This zone is found near the ocean floor, where pressure is extremely high, but creatures like anglerfish and giant squid can survive.
What is the abyssopelagic zone (the abyss)?
The ocean’s salt comes mostly from these tiny bits of rock that get washed into the sea by rivers.
What are ocean currents?
This freshwater animal hops between water and land and has smooth, moist skin.
What is a frog?
This is the name for the never-ending movement of water between the ocean, land, and sky.
This biome is known for having the greatest biodiversity on Earth. It is warm, rainy, and located near the equator.
What is the tropical rainforest?
This narrow ocean layer is found in deep trenches, where pressure is the greatest on Earth.
What is the hadalpelagic zone (the trenches)?
Because of all the salt, if you swim in this salty body of water between Israel and Jordan, you’ll float easily.
What is the Dead Sea?
This freshwater predator has sharp teeth, a long body, and can be found in rivers around the world.
What is an alligator?
These big mammals live in the ocean and include species like blue and humpback types.
What are whales?