Terrestrial Biome
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Common Plants/
Animals
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Interesting Features
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Weather/Climate
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Rainforest
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Bamboo
Bearded Pig
Brazilian Tapir
Capybara
Chimpanzee
Common Tree Shrew
Crested Guan
Flying Dragon
Gorilla
Indian Cobra
Orangutan
Slow Loris
Vine Snake
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Endangered biome, trees can live to 1000 years old, home to a large variety of species
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Hot, humid, abundant rainfall
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Tundra
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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
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Small plants, very little vegetation
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Very cold (avg temp 10-20 degrees F), low precipitation, permafrost
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Taiga
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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
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Freezing temps for half the year,
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12-33 in. rainfall, seasonal temperatures
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Desert
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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
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Flowers bloom after rains, cold night because it is dry
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Extreme heat, extreme dryness, sudden floods, cold nights
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Temperate
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Deciduous trees
Bank Vole
Black Bear
Gray Squirrel
Raccoon
White-tailed Deer
Wild Boar
Cardinal
Goshawk
Turkey
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Rat Snake
Spring Peeper
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Leaves change color every fall and are shed every winter
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High amount of rainfall, relatively moderate temperatures
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Grasslands
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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
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Found on every continent except Antarctica
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10-30 in. of rain, between deserts and forests, fertile soil
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Aquatic Biomes
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Common Plants/
Animals
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Interesting Features
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Weather/Climate
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Rivers & Streams
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Anaconda
Arrau River Turtle
Barbel
Boutu
Central Stoneroller
Common Pufferfish
Dipper
Eurasian Otter
Gavial
Hellbender
Red Piranha
Sunbittern
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Covers only .3% of the Earth’s surface
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Varies with location of the river
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Ponds & Lakes
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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
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Pond can freeze solid if it is cold enough
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Large amounts of wind, temperature varies with pressure
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Wetlands
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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
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Has different habitants for different seasons
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1-6 feet of water, constantly fluctuating
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Shorelines
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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
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Sand mixed by tides, which bring nutrients as much as they take them
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High levels of salt and calcium, very windy, cool
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Temperate Oceans
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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
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Produces nearly half of all available oxygen because of phytoplankton
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Surface is warm, deep ocean is cold
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Tropical Oceans
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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
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Contain the coral reefs
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Cold, sea floor, very fragile
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Biomes
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Plant/Animal Adaptations
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Rainforest
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Bark
Lianas
Drip tips
Buttresses
Prop and Stilt roots
Epiphytes
Bromeliads
Mangroves
Nepenthes
Resistance to humidity and hot temperatures
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Tundra
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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
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Taiga
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Desert
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Store water in waiting for rain
Expands to hold more water
Thorns to protect themselves from predators
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Temperate
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Trees shed their leaves in the winter to help them survive
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Grasslands
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Toxin in milkweed helps the monarch butterfly become poisonous to predators
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Rivers & Streams
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Constantly moving
Allows for nutrients to be cycled constantly
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Ponds & Lakes
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Mixed with the seasons to expose the whole lake to the environment
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Wetlands
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Serve as disaster protection
Holds water from floods
Plants used to add nutrients to the lake
Migration to this area for specific breeding
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Shorelines
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Tougher skin/scales
Eat small organisms in large amounts
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Temperate Oceans
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Tropical Oceans
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Shapes and colors create camouflage
Appearing as a non-living object
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