Terrestrial Biome Common Plants



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Terrestrial Biome

Common Plants/

Animals


Interesting Features

Weather/Climate

Rainforest

  • Bamboo 

  • Bearded Pig

  • Brazilian Tapir

  • Capybara

  • Chimpanzee

  • Common Tree Shrew

  • Crested Guan

  • Flying Dragon

  • Gorilla

  • Indian Cobra

  • Orangutan

  • Slow Loris

  • Vine Snake

Endangered biome, trees can live to 1000 years old, home to a large variety of species

Hot, humid, abundant rainfall

Tundra

  • Lichen

  • Cotton grass

  • Gyrfalcon

  • Rock Ptarmigan

  • Ruddy Turnstone

  • Snow Bunting

  • Snowy Owl

  • Tundra Swan

  • Arctic Fox

  • Caribou

  • Musk Ox

  • Norway Lemming

  • Polar Bear

  • Sled Dogs

Small plants, very little vegetation

Very cold (avg temp 10-20 degrees F), low precipitation, permafrost

Taiga

  • Evergreen trees (Conifers)

  • Needle Evergreens

  • Bohemian Waxwing

  • Hawk Owl

  • Pine Grosbeak

  • Red-Throated Loon

  • Ermine

  • Eurasian Beaver

  • European Red Squirrel

  • Lynx

  • Marten

  • Moose

  • Snowshoe Rabbit

  • Wolverine

Freezing temps for half the year,

12-33 in. rainfall, seasonal temperatures

Desert

  • Saguaro Cactus

  • Barrel Cactus

  • Old Man Cactus

  • Prickly Pear

  • Dragon Tree

  • Fish Hook Cactus

  • Desert Spoon

  • Aloe

  • Yucca

  • Joshua Tree

  • Addax

  • Cactus Wren

  • Desert Lark

  • Dingo

  • Fat Sand Rat

  • Fennec Fox

  • Gila Monster

  • Great Jerboa

  • Great Mouse-Tailed Bat

  • Lappet-Faced Vulture

  • Sidewinder

  • Thorny Devil

Flowers bloom after rains, cold night because it is dry

Extreme heat, extreme dryness, sudden floods, cold nights

Temperate

  • Deciduous trees

  • Bank Vole

  • Black Bear

  • Gray Squirrel

  • Raccoon

  • White-tailed Deer

  • Wild Boar

  • Cardinal

  • Goshawk

  • Turkey

  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

  • Rat Snake

  • Spring Peeper

Leaves change color every fall and are shed every winter

High amount of rainfall, relatively moderate temperatures

Grasslands

  • Milkweed

  • Prairie Blazingstar

  • Coneflower

  • Stinging Nettle

  • Poison ivy

  • Box Elder tree

  • Silver Maple tree

  • Red Bud tree

  • Bluestem grass

  • African Elephant

  • Bison

  • Black Rhinoceros

  • Black-footed Ferret

  • Brown Hyena

  • Giraffe

  • Greater Prairie Chicken

  • Lion

  • Ostrich

  • Prairie Dog

  • Pronghorn

  • Warthog

Found on every continent except Antarctica

10-30 in. of rain, between deserts and forests, fertile soil



Aquatic Biomes

Common Plants/

Animals


Interesting Features

Weather/Climate

Rivers & Streams

  • Anaconda

  • Arrau River Turtle

  • Barbel

  • Boutu

  • Central Stoneroller

  • Common Pufferfish

  • Dipper

  • Eurasian Otter

  • Gavial

  • Hellbender

  • Red Piranha

  • Sunbittern

Covers only .3% of the Earth’s surface

Varies with location of the river

Ponds & Lakes

  • Blue-green algae

  • Green algae

  • Euglenoids

  • Dinoflagellates

  • Diatoms

  • Bitterling

  • Bullfrog

  • Common Carp

  • Great Crested Grebe

  • Great White Pelican

  • Green and Gold Bell Frog

  • Lake Trout

  • Largemouth Bass

  • Platypus

  • Rough-skinned Newt

  • Spectacled Caiman

  • Zambesi Softshell

Pond can freeze solid if it is cold enough

Large amounts of wind, temperature varies with pressure

Wetlands

  • American Alligator

  • American Bittern

  • Boat-billed Heron

  • Black-winged Stilt

  • Cape Lopez Lyretail

  • Common Snipe

  • Dwarf Siren

  • Gold Spiny Reed Frog

  • Siamese Fightingfish

  • South American Lungfish

  • Two-toed Amphiuma

  • Walking Catfish

Has different habitants for different seasons

1-6 feet of water, constantly fluctuating

Shorelines

  • Conger Eel

  • Avocet

  • Crab Plover

  • Herring Gull

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

  • Snowy Sheathbill

  • White-collared Kingfisher

  • Diamondback Terrapin

  • Estuarine Crocodile

  • White-bellied Mangrove Snake

  • California Sea Lion

  • Harbor Seal

Sand mixed by tides, which bring nutrients as much as they take them

High levels of salt and calcium, very windy, cool

Temperate Oceans

  • Atlantic Hagfish

  • Atlantic Salmon

  • Basking Shark

  • Greenland Halibut

  • Lanternfish

  • Skate

  • Spiny Eel

  • Black-legged Kittiwake

  • Emperor Penguin

  • Gray Whale

  • Northern Bottle-nosed Whale

  • Sowerby's Beaked Whale

  • Cnidarians

  • Crustaceans

  • Echinoderms

  • Mollusks

  • Sponges

Produces nearly half of all available oxygen because of phytoplankton

Surface is warm, deep ocean is cold

Tropical Oceans

  • Blue Marlin

  • Clown Anemonefish

  • Great Barracuda

  • Porcupinefish

  • Skipjack Tuna

  • Smooth Hammerhead

  • Stonefish

  • Brown Booby

  • Green Turtle

  • Hawksbill

  • Dugong

  • Finless Porpoise

  • Cnidarians

  • Crustaceans

  • Echinoderms

  • Mollusks

  • Sponges

Contain the coral reefs

Cold, sea floor, very fragile



Biomes

Plant/Animal Adaptations

Rainforest

  • Bark

  • Lianas

  • Drip tips

  • Buttresses

  • Prop and Stilt roots

  • Epiphytes

  • Bromeliads

  • Mangroves

  • Nepenthes

  • Resistance to humidity and hot temperatures

Tundra

  • Don’t need much soil

  • Don’t need much water

  • Adapted to cold temperature

  • Grow red leaves to absorb more heat

  • Grow in clumps

  • Brightly colored to spread seeds

  • Thick fur

  • Hibernation

Taiga

  • Thick Bark

  • Large coats

Desert

  • Store water in waiting for rain

  • Expands to hold more water

  • Thorns to protect themselves from predators

Temperate

  • Trees shed their leaves in the winter to help them survive

Grasslands

  • Toxin in milkweed helps the monarch butterfly become poisonous to predators

Rivers & Streams

  • Constantly moving

  • Allows for nutrients to be cycled constantly

Ponds & Lakes

  • Mixed with the seasons to expose the whole lake to the environment

Wetlands

  • Serve as disaster protection

  • Holds water from floods

  • Plants used to add nutrients to the lake

  • Migration to this area for specific breeding

Shorelines

  • Tougher skin/scales

  • Eat small organisms in large amounts

Temperate Oceans

Tropical Oceans

  • Shapes and colors create camouflage

  • Appearing as a non-living object


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