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    WHS BIOMES MATRIX

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    This document provides a matrix for students to complete with information about different biomes, including their location, climate, plant life, animal life, and important characteristics. It lists several biomes like tropical rainforest, desert, temperate deciduous forest, grassland, tundra, taiga, freshwater, coastal waters, and open ocean. For each biome, it gives a brief description or examples of where they are located, typical temperature and rainfall, common plant and animal species, and other defining features.

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    BIOMES MATRIX

    Use this website (UCMP Berkeley) to complete the matrix below (This would normally be a double sided worksheet)

    NAME LOCATION CLIMATE PLANT ANIMAL IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS


    LIFE LIFE

    About 20-25 degrees Mostly evergreen Birds/bats/mammals Poor soil


    TROPICAL Near the celsius trees /insects Rainy and dry are the only two seasons
    RAINFOREST equator Over 200cm of Orchids/bromeliads/ Half the worlds rainforests are destroyed
    rainfall per year ferns/moss

    Existing all over the Yucca/ocotillo/turpe Kangaroo rats/ Cover ⅕ of Earth’s surface
    DESERT world but I’d imagine
    Rainfall is less ntine bush/prickly arachnids/ little rainfall in winter
    closer to the equator than 50cm (12”) pears reptiles/birds
    per year

    Above the equator -30 - 30 Squirrels, rabbits, Very distinct winter


    TEMPERATE (Temperature)
    Oak/Maple/Elm skunks, mountain 4-6 frost-free months
    DECIDUOUS 75-100cm of rainfall Spring flowering lion, deer
    FOREST plants

    Argentina/Uruguay/ 50.8-88.8cm of Different species of Would make great farmland -rich soil
    GRASSLAND Hungary/land of rainfall grass
    Lions, wolves,
    former the Soviet -40 - 38 degrees C Flowers: rabbits, hawks,
    Union asters/blazing snakes, spiders
    stars/coneflowers

    Arctic Tundra - Average Plants are short and Caribou/Polar


    TUNDRA Northern temperature- -34C grouped together Bears/Snow
    Contains permafrost
    Hemisphere -Mostly flowers Bird/Bumble
    Bees/Salmon
    BIOMES MATRIX
    NAME LOCATION CLIMATE PLANT ANIMAL IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS
    LIFE LIFE

    Eurasia/North Low temperature Evergreen pine, fir, Woodpeckers/hawks Poor soil


    TAIGA America/Siberia/Sca Low rainfall, mostly and spruce trees /moose/bear/weasel
    ndinavia/Alaska/Can snow /lynx/fox
    ada

    LAKES Pond Lillies/ cattails/ Amphibians/reptiles. NUTRIENT RICH


    WETLANDS sedges/ tamarack/ birds/furbearers
    FRESHWATER VARIED black spruce

    RIVERS Less plant life Catfish and carp NUTRIENT POOR


    STREAMS because of low
    oxygen

    COASTAL
    WATERS

    Ocean. Wet. Coral Reefs Worms/Clams/Crust Oceans are separated into four zones:
    OPEN OCEAN aceans/Crabs/Shore Intertidal/pelagic/abyssal/benthic
    birds

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