Welcome to the Amazing world of Biomes.

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World's Biomes

• Welcome to the Amazing world of Biomes.

Taiga
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The Amazing Desert

• By Clay Rathman, Jordan Wakefield, Esme Opp, and
  Sydnie Stilley

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Animals and Biodiversity

• Most animals hide in places out site
• Few animals are very fast
• Some animals are muscular and powerful
• Some snakes are very poisonous
• Some birds are well covered in black feathers
• Some animals have salt glands or sweat glands

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Plants and Biodiversity

• Animals store water in flesh
• Few plants have over 1400 of their species
• Some plants have developed taproots
• Plants must grow flowers and seed before harsh
  conditions
• Deserts have a short life cycle of plants
• Some plants are able to escape a drought

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Climate of Desert

• Gets less than 10 inches a year
• Only some of the Deserts are dry
• In summer it gets up to 85-100 Fahrenheit and
  29-39 Celsius
• It gets cold in the winter
• It doesnt rain often
• Gets very dry

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Location of Biome

• Most Continents have Deserts
• Most of the deserts are in Africa
• Few deserts are in North America
• Deserts cover most of Australia
• Desert in the eastern part of the Earth

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Theatened/Endangered/ Extinct

• Duck, Sidewinder, and the Gila Monster are
  Threatened
• Scorpion, Camel, Cheetah, Cobra, Arabian Oryx
  are endangered
• Desert mouse is extinct

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Animals and Adaptations

• Most animal stay in the shade
• Some burrow in the ground
• Few animals hunt at night
• Some store fat in humps or tails
• Most get water from insects, bulbs, and seeds
• Some remain inactive during the day
• Some animals develop salt glands

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Next on our stop, is the major biome of
grasslands!
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Grasslands

• By Aric, Brock,Devin,Emelia

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Animals

• Most animals eat grass in the grasslands
• Most animals stay year-round
• Most animals are grazers
• Invertebrates to large mammals
• Some animals are browsers
• Some animals migrate
• Most animals have adaptations

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• Grass is common
• Few trees except along streams
• Tall and short grasslands
• There are thousands of grasses
• Many wildflowers
• Many grasses will not die if stepped on
• Wide range of plant life

Plants
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Climate

• 10 -30 inches of rain
• Some snow
• There are droughts
• In savanna mostly hot all day
• Very windy
• partly-dry biome
• few Tornadoes

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Location

• All around the world
• Often found between deserts rainforests
• north and south American grasslands
• 1-5th of the earths surface is grasslands
• About 800 million people in grasslands
• Everywhere except Antarctica

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Threatened/Endangered/Extinct

• Most animals are endangered
• Few animals are extinct
• Few animals are threatened
• Here are some threatened animals mountain
  lions, McCowns,Longspur
• Here are some endangered animals bison,
  cheetahs,sand hill crane,red wolf,
  lion,zebras,elephants
• Here some extinct animals auruba sheep, great
  plains wolf

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Our next stop is the Rainforest!
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Rainforest

• ByAlex,Taylor,Sara,and Jack

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location

• Near Earths Equator
• Biggest is in Brazil
• In South America
• South East Asia
• West Africa
• Southern Mexico
• Australia
• Caribbean
• South Pacific Islands

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Climate

• Very humid
• Very hot
• 12 hours of sunlight
• Receives from 60-160 inches of rain each year

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Plants

• Trees
• Brazil Nut Tree
• Kapok Tree
• Fig Tree
• Cecropia Tree
• Trees may grow as high as 200 feet
• 2.
• Overlapping leaves keep the forest floor from
  getting hot
• Ferns
• Vines
• Bushes

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Animals

• Most animals hunt for their food
• A lot of animals eat fruits
• Most mammals hunt at night
• Many different kinds of birds
• Some monkeys are primates

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Threatened/Endangered

• Threatened
• Bearded pig
• Red crowned parrot
• Proboscis monkey
• Endangered
• Gibbon
• Aye-Aye
• Mantled howler monkey
• Hoolock gibbon
• Red necked parrot
• There many plants becoming close to being extinct

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Extinct

• Bali tiger
• Passenger pigeon
• Iguanodon
• Giant moa
• Aurochs
• Some plants are extinct

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This biome is important because it has very
many animals and plants that are regional to this
world.
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The next major Biome is the Taiga.
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The Amazing Taiga

• Calen Middendorf Sydney Mickells Dylan Baker
  Tyson Lam

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Animals

• Few animals live in the Taiga because of climate
  
• Some birds live in Taiga
• Most mammals
• live in the Taiga
• Some of the animals migrate to warm places
• Most animals have fur to blend in with
  surroundings
• Many swans, otters, and weasels live in the
  taiga

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Climate

• Cold winters,cool summers
• Moisture moderate varies throughout year
  
• Very cold
• Climate in winters
• Gets 13 inches of rain
• In a year
• Cold climate
• Winters long and cold
• Summers short and cool

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Plants

• Not much plant life
• Common plant is conifer tree
• Rarely found club moss
• Some trees dont drop there leaves
• Ground freezes so plants are unable to get water
• Trees grow close together
• Trees in the Taiga need to adapt to the climate

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Threatened\Endangered\Extict

• The wooly mammoths are extinct
• Some animals in the Taiga are poached and killed
• Anancus is a extinct dinosaur
• The brown bear is threatened by being poached
• Stellers sea lion is threatened because of
  fisher men
• Corythosaurs is extinct

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Location

• Found in the northern hemisphere near polar
  region
• In Russia,North America,Europe,and Asia
• Mostly found in Canada
• Most of the taiga grows in the Artic circle
• Taiga is far up north
• Taiga is mostly unpopulated

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The Taiga is near the Tundra where we will visit
next, in our biome adventure.
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The Icy Tundra

• By Kara, Maddie, Jackson, and Hayden

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Animals/Biodiversity

• Break ice to drink
• Dont live year round
• Eat anything found
• They have thick coats
• Food is stored under skin as fat
• Most animals migrate or hibernate
• Some animals lay eggs in other animals

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Plants/Biodiversity

• Treeless
• Shallow roots
• About 1,700 kinds of plants
• Seeds carried by wind
• Grow low and close together
• Grow up to about 4 feet
• Grow quickly

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Climate

• Snows until June
• Cold climate
• In Winter temperature drops to -70ºF
• Very Dry and icy
• Winter is dark/Summer is light
• Ground is soggy

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Location

• North of Taiga Across northern Alaska
• Russia
• Canada
• Finland and Norway
• Greenland
• Iceland
• Denmark

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Threatend/ Endangered/ Extinct

• Threatened
• Weasel
• Red Fox
• Polar bear
• Endangered
• Yak
• Bighorn sheep
• Shrew
• Extinct
• Mexican Grizzly

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These biomes are very important to our world!
These biomes are really important to our world!