Biomes

Biomes

Period 1
Std. An understanding of the interrelationships among organisms and the biotic and
abiotic indicators of their enviroments.

Biomes Comparison Chart
Biomes | AverageTempertureºC | Average Annual Precipitation | Biodiversity | Primary ProductivityKilo, calories per square meter per year | Geographical Location |
Desert | 16 ºC | 18cm | soil- lowbats,bilby,civet,coyotes, desert elephants,dingo, gerbil, hyena, ibex | <200 | between 15º and 35º north and south latitude around the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn |
Tundra | -22ºC to 6ºC | 10.5cm |soil- lowlabrador tea, artic willow, artic moss, snowy owl, ermine, carobou, musk ox, polar boar, bearberry, artic fox | 600 | northern hemisphere, around the north pole and south to the coniferousforests of the taiga; mountains throughout the world at high altitudes |
Tropical Rain Forest | 18ºC | 249cm | soil- mediumanaconda, orquids, orangutan, king cobra, africa forest elephant, toco toucan,vampire bat, silvery gibbon, chimanzee, bengal tiger | 9,000 | latitudes 23.5º noth and 23.5ºC south, near the equator |
Savanna | 16ºC | 102cm | soil-mediumkangaroo paw, candelabra tree, baobab,african wild dog, black mamba, egyptian mongoose, chacma baboon, acacia senegal, grant’s zebra, manketti tree | 3,000 | Africa, Australia, India, South America; in the tropics near the equator |Grassland | 20ºC | 20cm | soil-lowironweed, joe pye weed, hummingbord clearwing., common teasel,dogbane, queen ann’s lace, red milkweed beetle, yellow-eyed grass, southern white rhino, killdeer | 2,000 |interior of continents where there is little rainfall; western north america; eurasion interior |
Desiduous Forest | 31ºC | 115cm | soil- highamerican bald eagle, brown bear, beaver, coyote, duckbillplatypus, porcupine, opossum, nightingale, muskrat, raccoons | 6,000 | eastern Noth America, northeastern Asia, and western and central Europe; between 30-50º north latitudes |
Open Ocean |...