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Does anyone have a master cheat sheet for biomes that they are willing to share?
EDIT
Here is my personal Biomes Cheat Sheet. After researching around I picked the most relevant information to use.
TERRESTRIAL BIOMES
Desert:
Highest
Tundra
Taiga
Temperate Coniferous
Temperate Deciduous
Lowest
Aquatic Biomes
Marine:
IMPORTANT: Freshwater biomes are more hypotonic than marine biomes so water will enter the cell of organisms. These organisms are adapted to pump out excess water through the use of contractile vacuoles (protozoa) and increased excretory rate (fish).
EDIT
Here is my personal Biomes Cheat Sheet. After researching around I picked the most relevant information to use.
TERRESTRIAL BIOMES
Desert:
- <10 inches of rain a year
- Animals burrow into the sand to stay cool and hunt at night
- Vegetation: Cactus, sagebrush, mesquite
- 10 - 30 inches of rain a year
- No shelter for animals to hide from predators
- Animals in grasslands tend to have long legs to out run their predators.
- Torrential rainfall
- Includes rain forests and jungles
- Thick vegetation, leaves are not shed. Includes epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants i.e. vines)
- Very little light reaches the forest floor so saphrositic vegetation thrives there
- High temperatures and humid
- Cold winters, warm summers (Think North Eastish US i.e. Maine, Massachusetts, NY)
- Vegetation: Beech, maple, oaks, and willows. Leaves are shed.
- Animals: Squirrel, fox, deer
- Cold, dry
- Vegetation: Fir, pine, spruce, have needle shaped leaves
- 20-30 inches of rain a year
- Hot and dry summers
- Basically a Mediterranean biome so oaks, small deciduous shrubs, and vineyards and olives grow well here
- Less rain than forests
- Long cold winters
- Forest floor has moss and lichen
- Vegetation: Spruce only
- Animals: Moose, bear, wolf
- Very short summer
- Frozen soil (permafrost)
- Treeless
- Has lichen and moss
- Animals: Polar bears and oxen
- Frozen ice
- At the poles
- No vegetation
- Think about Happy Feet
Highest
Tundra
Taiga
Temperate Coniferous
Temperate Deciduous
Lowest
Aquatic Biomes
Marine:
- Intertidal zone: exposed region at low tide
- Littoral zone: on the continental shelf and has depths of up to 600ft
- Pelagic zone: open sea
- Photic zone - sunlit layer containing photosynthetic organisms.
- Aphotic (no light) zone - under the photic zone that receives no sunlight, only heterotrophic organisms reside there
IMPORTANT: Freshwater biomes are more hypotonic than marine biomes so water will enter the cell of organisms. These organisms are adapted to pump out excess water through the use of contractile vacuoles (protozoa) and increased excretory rate (fish).
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