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Land Biomes Of the World
•Tropical Rain Forest
•Desert
•Grassland
•Temperate Forest
•Boreal Forest
•Tundra
• Climate: It rains almost everyday. Very warm (humid)
Tropical Rainforests
• Consumers: Tigers, leopards, pythons, insects,
spiders, tree frogs, monkeys, snakes, colorful birds,
ants, firefly, orangutan, and three-toed sloth
• Producers: more kinds of plants grow in the tropical
rainforest than other biomes. Palm trees, ferns,
banana leaf vines, and flowers.
• Extra facts: located near the equator ½ of all animals
on earth live in the rainforest. More tree dwelling
creatures than any other biome. Insects have
evolved to have lots of predator adaptation due to
the numerous amount of predators.
Emergent Layer
Canopy
Understory
Forest Floor
DesertDesert
• Climate: Very dry, little precipitation, hot days, cool
nights
• Consumers: Snakes, lizards, kangaroo rats,
tortoises, jackrabbits, and camels.
• Producers: Very few; cacti, saguaro, yucca. Plants
store water and have very small leaves and thorns.
• Extra facts: Animals active during day are called
diurnal. Active at night called nocturnal. Very few
large animals live in the desert because large
amounts of food and water are hard to find.
Desert
Grassland
• Climate: moderately to very warm most of the
year, short winters, & humid summers.
• Producers: grasses, very few trees
• Consumers: Antelope, badgers, prairie dogs,
moles, ground squirrels, hares, gophers, & many
birds.
• Extra facts: also called savannas, velds, papas,
prairies, and steppes
Grassland
• Deciduous Trees trees that drop their
leaves and grow
new ones each
year. Leaves
change color.
• Video about different types
of trees.
• Coniferous Trees(evergreens) trees that
produce their seed in
cones and have
needle shaped leaves.
They stay green all
year.
Deciduous Forest
• Climate: Hot summers, warm falls, cold winters,
moist spring, four seasons. Precipitation varies
• Consumers: bears, deer, foxes, raccoons,
opossums, squirrels, insects, and birds.
• Producers: wildflowers, ferns, mosses, some
evergreens, most are deciduous, such as oak,
hickory, beech and maple tree. MOST OF THE
TREES ARE DECIDUOUS (leaves change color in
fall)
• Extra Facts: leaves fall off the tree in fall therefore
there is lots of dead leaves on the ground. Many
animals hibernate. (video)
Deciduous Forest
Boreal Forest
(Coniferous Forest, Taiga)
• Climate: cold, some rain, large amounts of snow
fall. Winter 6 months of the year.
• Consumers: deer, ducks, geese, moose,
mountain goats, bears, bighorn sheep, porcupine.
• Producers: spruces, firs, pines, aspens, poplars,
mosses, lichens, wildflowers MOST OF THE
TREES ARE CONIFERS (trees with cones)
• Extra facts: Most trees are evergreens (trees that
stay green all year).
•
Video (2 minutes)
Brain pop on Taiga
Tundra
Brain bop on Tundra
•Tundra video
•Review Video of all 6
land biomes.
• Climate: very cold, little
precipitation, snow on the
ground all but two months of the
year.
• Consumers: reindeer, arctic
foxes, wolves, snowy owls,
hawks, eagles, falcons,
lemmings, voles, marmots,
mosquitoes, and flies.
• Producers: during two summer
months Mosses, grasses, shrubs,
lichens NO TREES because the
soil is frozen called permafrost.
• Extra facts: very, very cold
Warm-up # 1
• Use your text book to answer the
following questions.
1. What is a Biome?
2. What two factors make up the
climate of a biome?
3. What are the 6 main land biomes?
Warm-up # 3
1. What are two abiotic factors you can
compare between biomes?
2. Why do Deciduous Trees loose their
leaves in the winter?
3. Describe the difference between the
trees in the 3 forest biomes.
4. Which biome has snow on the
ground 6 months of the year?
Warm-up # 2
1. Why do rainforest plants have large
leaves?
2. What is the climate like in the TRF?
3. Which biome is located at the equator?
4. Which Biome has more species than all
other Biomes put together?
Warm-up # 3
1. What is a biome?
2. What are the two major abiotic factors
that you can compare between biomes?
3. Explain why desert plants have small
leaves and TRF plants have large wide
leaves.
4. Create a food chain found in the desert.
5. Name 3 carnivores found in the TRF.
Warm-up # 4
1. What are the two abiotic factors that you
can compare between biomes?
2. What are 4 herbivores that live in the
Grassland?
3. List a producer found in the TRF,
Grassland and Desert.
4. What energy role does a lion, anteater
and scorpion play in their biome?
Warm-up #5
1. Name four Biotic factors found mostly in the
Grassland.
2. Name 2 Carnivores found in the Desert.
3. Describe the 4 layers of the Tropical Rain
Forest.
4. Which 2 Biomes have none or very few trees?
5. Which biome has warm temperatures all year
long.
6. What is a large ecosystem which has similar
populations and climate throughout.
Warm-up # 6
• Create a Venn diagram of the three forest
biomes.
Warm-up #7
• Create a Venn diagram of the three
treeless biomes.