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5th Ecosystems 3
Biomes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tropical Rain Forests | is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) of rain falls yearly. |
| Deciduous Forests | has four distinct seasons, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The average annual temperature in a deciduous forest is 50° F. It has moderate rainfall. The average rainfall is 30 to 60 inches a year. |
| Grasslands | are large, rolling terrains of grasses, flowers and herbs. Precipitation is low and so erratic that drought and fire prevent large forests from growing. |
| Deserts | cover about one fifth of the Earth's surface and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm/year. |
| Hot and Dry Deserts | are warm throughout the fall and spring seasons and very hot during the summer. The winters usually have very little if any rainfall. |
| Cold Deserts | have quite a bit of snow during winter. The summer and the beginning of the spring are barely warm enough for a few lichens, grasses and mosses to grow. |
| Taiga | is the largest biome in the world. The winters in the taiga are very cold with only snowfall. The summers are warm, rainy, and humid. |
| Tundra | is the coldest of all the biomes. It is noted for its frost-molded landscapes, extremely low temperatures, little precipitation, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons. |
| Biome | a large, scale ecosystem |
| Climate Zone | a region in which yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and the amount of sunlight are similar throughout |
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