VICTORIA: junio 2013

Tundra

Taiga

Desert

Savanna

Grasslands

Chaparral

Alpine

RainForest

Decidious

Location

Almost all tundras are located in the Northern Hemisphere. Small tundra-like areas do exist in Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere

A biome is the type of habitat in certain places, like mountain tops, deserts, and tropical forests, and is determined by the climate of the place

Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's land surface.

. They are found in a wide band on either side of the equator on the edges of tropical rainforests.

The settlers found both on their journey west. When they crossed the Mississippi River they came into some very tall grass, some as high as 11 feet. H

The chaparral biome is found in a little bit of most of the continents - the west coast of the United States, the west coast of South America, the Cape Town area of South Africa, the western tip of Australia and the coastal areas of the Mediterranean.

Alpine biomes are found in the mountain regions all around the world.

There is usually a brief season of less rain. In monsoonal areas, there is a real dry season. Almost all rain forests lie near the equator.

Deciduous forests can be found in the eastern half of North America, and the middle of Europe. There are many deciduous forests in Asia. Some of the major areas that they are in are southwest Russia, Japan, and eastern China. South America has two big areas of deciduous forests in southern Chile and Middle East coast of Paraguay. There are deciduous forests located in New Zealand, and southeastern Australia also.

Climate

It is cold through all months of the year Summer is a brief period of milder climates when the sun shines almost 24 hours a day.

Taiga is in Köppen's Dfc climate category. The Dis a snow climate,

A Hot and Dry Desert is, as you can tell from the name, hot and dry.

it is actually a little cooler during this dry season. But don't expect sweater weather; it is still around 70° F.

There are two different types of grasslands; tall-grass, which are humid and very wet, and short-grass, which are dry, with hotter summers and colder winters than the tall-grass prairie.

Chaparral is characterized as being very hot and dry. As for the temperature, the winter is very mild and is usually about 10 °C. Then there is the summer. It is so hot and dry at 40 °C that fires and droughts are very common.

The Alpine biome is like winter is to people in New England; snow, high winds, ice, all the typical winter thing

in forests belong to the tropical wet climate group. The temperature in a rain forest rarely gets higher than 93 °F (34 °C) or drops below 68 °F (20 °C); average humidity is between 77 and 88%; rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year.

The average annual temperature in a deciduous forest is 50° F. The average rainfall is 30 to 60 inches a year.

Flora

Arctic Moss
Arctic Willow
Bearberry
Caribou Moss
Diamond-leaf Willow
Labrador Tea
Pasque Flower
Tufted Saxifrage

Balsam Fir
Black Spruce
Douglas-fir
Eastern Red Cedar
Jack Pine
Paper Birch
Siberian Spruce
White Fir
White Poplar
White Spruce

Barrel Cactus
Brittle Bush
Chainfruit Cholla
Creosote Bush
Crimson Hedgehog Cactus
Desert Ironwood
Joshua Tree
Jumping Cholla
Mojave Aster
Ocotillo
Palo Verde
Pancake Prickly Pear Cactus
Saguaro Cactus
Soaptree Yucca
Triangle-leaf Bursage
Animals

Acacia Senegal
Baobab
Bermuda Grass
Candelabra Tree
Elephant Grass
Gum Tree Eucalyptus
Jackalberry Tree
Jarrah tree
Kangaroo Paw
Manketti Tree
River Bushwillow
Umbrella Thorn Acacia
Whistling Thorn

The most common types of plant life on the North American prairie are Buffalo Grass, Sunflower, Crazy Weed, Asters, Blazing Stars, Coneflowers, Goldenrods, Clover, and Wild Indigos.

Blue Oak
Coyote Brush
Common Sagebrush
Fairy Duster
French Broom
King Protea
Lebanon Cedar
Manzanita
Mountain Mahogany
Saltmarsh Bird's Beak
Olive Tree
Torrey Pine

Alpine Phacelia
Bear Grass
Bristlecone Pine
Moss Campion
Polylepis Forest
Pygmy Bitterroot
Wild Potato

Africa Forest Elephant

Bengal Bamboo

Fauna

Arctic Fox
Caribou
Ermine
Grizzly Bear
Harlequin Duck
Musk Ox
Polar Bear
Snowy Owl

American Black Bear
Bald Eagle
Bobcat
Canadian Lynx
Gray Wolf
Grizzly Bear
Long-Eared Owl
Red Fox
River Otter
Snowshoe Rabbit
Wolverine

Armadillo Lizard
Banded Gila Monster
Bobcat
Cactus Wren
Coyote
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Desert Kangaroo Rat
Desert Tortoise
Javelina
Cactus Ferruginoug Pygmy Owl
Sonoran Desert Toad
Sonoran Pronghorn Antelope
Thorny Devil

African Elephant
African Wild Dog
Black Mamba
Caracal
Chacma Baboon
Egyptian Mongoose
Emu
Grant's Zebra
Koala Bear
Lion
Nigriceps Ants
Nile Crocodile

Some common animals in the grasslands are Coyotes, Eagles, Bobcats, the Gray Wolf, Wild Turkey, Fly Catcher, Canadian Geese, Crickets, Dung Beetle, Bison, and Prairie Chicken

Aardwolf
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Cactus Wren
Golden Jackal
Grey Fox
Isand Grey Fox
Puma
San Joachin Kit Fox
Spotted Skunk
Wild Goat

Alpaca
Andean Condor
Chinchilla
Llama
Mountain Goat
Snow Leopard
Vicuña
Yak