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Tropical Rainforest

-Very Warm and Tropical Temperature

-Over 200 cm of rain a year

-Plants have waxy coating

Facts

-Tropical Rainforests are located in Chile,New Zealand,United Kingdom,etc.

-Covers 6-7% of the earths surface

-They are important because they control the global patterns of the weather

-Biome that gets the most rain

Trees from the TR-they have thin and smooth bark which prevents from drying out.

Epiphyte-grows on trunks and branches from trees and gets sunlight from the canopy

New World Monkey

Adaptation and Description-has a tail that curls around branches that allow them to hang on trees.

Forest

-experience all seasons

-40-50 cm of rain a year

-plants change colors during seasons

Facts

-Forests are located in the United States,Canada,Europe,China,Japan and Russia

-These "leaf-shedding" forests are split into 5 zones

-The tree stratum zone have trees 60-100 feet tall

-There are over 10 kinds of berries in the third zone (shrub zone)

Deciduous Trees-these are trees with leaves rather than pine needles and the leaves change colors during 

seasons

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Black Bear-has a heavy coat of fur and is filled with layers and has sharp claws that allow it to climb trees

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Marine

-Temperature for the ocean is 39 degrees

-Can be either cold or warm water depending on motions of water

-Has a big influence and terrestrail climate

Facts

-covers 70% of the earths surface

-marine regions are very salty

-divided into 3 vertical zones

-looks like a twilight in our land

Marine Algae-Allows us to breathe

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Blue Whale-These are so large that a small person could crawl through their artieries and about 20 

could stand on their own tounge

Desert

-extremely hot temperatures

-less than 25 cm of rain a year

-plants have spines to protect from animals

Facts

-covers 1/5 of the earth's surface

-there are hot and cold deserts

-In North America there are 5 major hot deserts

-Antarctcia and Greenland are examples of cold deserts

Cacti-their waxy coating can't let water escape (traps water)

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Kangaroo Rat-builds home out of cacti spines to protect from foxes and eagles

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Tundra

-extremely cold climate

-About 20 cm or more a year (permafrost)

-plants are low to ground for warmth

Facts

- coldest and driest out of all biomes

-winters are long and summers are short there

-largest biome out of all biomes

-the tundra is close to the North Pole

Lichens,Mosses,and Shrubs-adapt to weather by being short and grouped together to protect

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Polar Bear-eats fatty meat to survive and adapts to weather by breeding and raising their young 

animals.

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