Name: Justine Rio Lovina

Year and Section: BAIT1A

Assignment # 1
Make a research on the characteristics of terrestrial biomes fill in the missing information. Give 2
example on each biomes on how human activity disrupt these Biomes.

Terrestrial Amount of Plant Animal Examples on how

precipitation human disrupt
this
biome

Tropical High (80 to 400 kapok trees, Jaguars, Deforestation;

Rain Forest inches/year) Orchids, Toucans, Hunting and
Ferns. Monkeys. Poaching

Tropical Moderate (20 to Grasses, elephants, Overgrazing; Fire

Grassland 50 inches/year), Acacias, zebras, lions Mismanagement
seasonal rainfall. Baobabs.

Temperate Moderate (10 to grasses, bison, Overgrazing;

Grassland 30 inches/year), herbs, pronghorn, Urbanization
seasonal rainfall. shrubs. foxes.

Desert Very low (less cacti, camels, Urban

than 10 succulents, coyotes, and Development;
inches/year) sparse scorpions. Water Extraction
vegetation.

Boreal Moderate (15 to spruce, pine, moose, wolves, Deforestation;

Forest 40 inches/year) and fir lynx, Mining and Energy
Development

Temperate Moderate to high oak, maple, Deer, squirrels, Deforestation; Air

Forest (30 to 60 and beech owls, and and Water
inches/year) salamanders. Pollution

Tundra Low (6 to 10 mosses, caribou, Arctic Pollution ;Infrastruc

inches/year) lichens, small foxes, and ture Construction
shrubs polar bears