Savanna & Tundra Biome

1
Savanna Tundra Biome

• Mike, Kelly, and Tina

2
Savanna Biome

• It occurs in regions that has a distinct wet/dry
  climate category.
• Dry season in the winter and wet season in the
  summer. Subtropical region.
• During dry season most plants die and most
  animals migrate to find food.
• Temp. ranges from 68-86 degrees F
• Mainly in low latitudes (between 30S-30N)

3
Savanna Areas
4
Savanna Areas
5
Savanna Biome

• Precipitation is 15- 30 inches a year

6
Human Impact

• Human impact humans create savannas by burning
  the grasslands and cutting down trees in order to
  plant crops.
• Big game hunting
• Poaching animals

7
Animals

• Animal adaptations animals have adapted to great
  variability in the food supply.

• Africa - aardvark, African elephant, African wild
  cat, antelopes, buffalo, Cape hunting dog,
  caracal, cheetah, eland, gerenuk, giraffe, gnu,
  Grant's gazelle, hippopotamus, hyena, impala,
  jackal, kudu, leopard, lion,
• Australia - kangaroo, wallaby, pigeon, dove,
  parrot, finch, wombat
• South America - rodents (like the capybara),
  rhea, and deer.
• India - Asiatic water buffalo, Asian elephant,
  Indian rhinoceros, Indian wolf, tiger, savanna
  nightjar
• Myanmar-Thailand - Asian elephant, Asiatic Water
  buffalo, pygmy hog, tiger

8
Animal pictures
9
Plants

• Plant adaptations many plants have developed
  adaptations that allow them to grow quickly when
  there is water. When the water is scares they
  turn brown to limit water loss
• Type of plants Baobab tree, sausage tree,
  Strangle fig, Wild date palm, Tooth brush tree,
  Umbrella tree, Elephant grass, and Bermuda grass.

10
Savanna Biomes

• Woodland trees are spaced rather broadly apart
  because of soil moisture during the dry season is
  not sufficient to support a full tree cover.
• Thorn-tree-tall-grass trees are more widely
  scattered, and open grassland is more extensive
  than in the savanna woodlands

11
Savanna Woodland
12
Savanna Thorn-tree-tall-grass
13
Tundra Biome

• This tundra is the coldest of all biomes
• Tree-less plane
• Little precipitation (less than 10 in.), poor
  nutrients, and poor growing seasons
• Gets energy and nutrients from dead or organic
  material
• Temps cold most of year, maybe short periods
  warmer than 0C (32F)
• Mainly in high latitudes (60 - 80N) and high
  elevations

14
Tundra Biome
15
Human Impact

• Increase in Earth temp melts polar ice caps.
• Pollution for mining and drilling of oil has
  polluted the natural resources. Nickel minds in
  Russia are so polluted plants around mine have
  died off.
• Big game hunting

16
Plants and Animals

• Plants
• Arctic low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses,
  liverworts, and grasses,400 varieties of flowers,
  and crustose and foliose lichen
• Alpine tussock grasses, dwarf trees,
  small-leafed shrubs, and heaths
• Animals
• Arctic Herbivorous mammals lemmings, voles,
  caribou, arctic hares and squirrels, Carnivorous
  mammals arctic foxes, wolves, and polar bears
  Migratory birds ravens, snow buntings, falcons,
  loons, ravens, sandpipers, terns, snow birds, and
  various species of gulls, Fish cod, flatfish,
  salmon, and trout
• Alpine Mammals pikas, marmots, mountain goats,
  sheep, elk, Birds grouselike birds, Insects
  springtails, beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies

17
Animal Pictures
18
Tundra Biomes

• Arctic It is located in the areas around the
  poles, the growing range is 50-60 days, the
  precipitation is 6-10 in., and where there is
  permafrost.
• Alpine It is located in the mountains at high
  latitudes where trees cannot grow. The growing
  season is 180 days in the summer.

19
Arctic Biome
20
Alpine Biome
21
Bibliography

• 1. Col, Jeananda. "Savanna Animal Printouts."
  Enchanted Learning. 2000. 18 Nov 2008
  lthttp//www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/savanna/s
  avanna.shtmlgt.2. Benders-Hyde, Elizabeth.
  "Savanna." Blue Planet Biome. 2000. 18 Nov 2008
  lthttp//www.blueplanetbiomes.org/savanna.htmgt.3.
    "Biomes." COTF. 2004. Wheeling Jesuit
  University. 18 Nov 2008 lthttp//www.cotf.edu/ete/m
  odules/msese/earthsysflr/savannah.htmlgt. 4. 
  Thomas, Robert. "The Grassland Biome." UCMP.
  2002. California Academy of Sciences. 18 Nov 2008
  lthttp//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/gras
  slands.phpgt.