PORRAS, MARY JANE R.
LOVELY LANSANG
2BSC4B PEOPLE AND EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM
BIOME GEOGRAPHICAL
LOCATION
Tundra A Tundra is a treeless area
near the Arctic where the
ground is always frozen
and there's very little plant
life. Tundras are found just
below the ice caps of the
Arctic, across North
America, in Europe,
Siberia and Asia. Most of
Alaska and almost half of
Canada are located in the
Tundra biome.
Taiga stretches in the Northern
Hemisphere taking huge
chunks of North America
and Eurasia, especially
Canada and Russia
respectively. It also
stretches in Northern
Europe in countries such
as Finland, Norway and
Sweden and spans across
Alaska and Scandinavia.
Temperate deciduous Temperate deciduous
forests can be found in the
rainforest eastern part of the United
States and Canada, most
of Europe and parts of
China and Japan. The
temperate deciduous
forest is a biome that is
always changing. It has
four distinct seasons:
winter, spring, summer
and fall. Winters are cold
and summers are warm.
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AMOUNT OF ORGANISM THAT LIVE
RAINFALL BIOME
The arctic tundra Include the musk ox, the Arctic h
receives the polar bear, the Arctic fox, the
approximately 15 to caribou, and the snowy owl, the
25 cm (6 to 10 caribou and the semipalmated pl
inches) of migrate to warmer climates durin
precipitation each the winter. Others, like the arctic
year, which includes ground squirrel, hibernate during
both winter months. There are very fe
rainfall/snowfall and reptiles and amphibians found in
melting snow and tundra because the temperature
ice. Alpine tundra so cold.
typically receives
slightly higher
amounts of yearly
precipitation, around
30 cm (almost 12
inches).
12 - 33 inches (30 - Animals of the taiga. Mammals li
85 centimeters). in the taiga include foxes, lynxes,
Although the cold bears, minks, squirrels, while larg
winters have some ones include grey wolves and the
snowfall, most of the preys: caribou, reindeers and mo
precipitation comes In winter, wolves
during the warm,
humid summer
months.
are the second- Mammals in North American
rainiest biome. The temperate deciduous forests incl
average yearly white-tailed deer, raccoons,
precipitation is 30 - opossums, porcupines and red fo
60 inches (75 - 150 Animals that live in the temperat
cm). This deciduous forest must be able to
precipitation falls adapt to the changing seasons. S
throughout the year, animals in this biome migrate or
but in the winter it hibernate in the winter
falls as snow. The
average
temperature in
temperate
deciduous forests
 Desert Deserts cover more than a desert is defined as Foxes, spiders, antelopes, elepha
one-fifth of the Earth’s an area that receives and lions are common desert spe
land area, and they are less than 10 inches, Desert fox, Chile.
found on every continent. or 25 centimeters, of Addax antelope.
Hot deserts are mainly precipitation a year. Deathstalker scorpion.
found around the Tropics Although most of us Camel.
of Cancer and Capricorn. think of deserts as Armadillo lizard.
The hot deserts of the places that do not Thorny Devil.
world are located get much rain, the Rock Hopper penguin.
between 15° and 30° precipitation
north or south of the received in deserts
equator, where the air is can be in the form of
subsiding or sinking air either rain or snow.

Chaparral is found in small sections receives The animals living in chaparral bi

of most continents, approximately 10-17 are chiefly desert and grassland k
including the West coast inches of rainfall adapted to hot, dry climate.
of the United States, the annually. Most of Grey Fox
West coast of South the rain occurs Puma
America, the Cape Town during winter. Black-tailed Jack Rabbit
area of South Africa, the Lightning and Spotted Skunk
Western tip of Australia thunderstorms are Golden Jackal
and the coastal areas of prevalent during the Bezoar Goat
the Mediterranean. end of summer
months. Due to long
summer droughts,
only hard-leaved
plants are able to
survive in this
biome. Most plants
also develop hairy
leaves to harness
moisture from the
air and utilize it.

The Savanna grasslands Savannah, Georgia The African savannah, the savann
are located between gets 49 inches of with which most people are fami
tropical rainforests and rain, on average, per is home to a wide variety of anim
 Savannah deserts, and are near the year. The US average A short list of some of those anim
equator (usually between is 38 inches of rain includes wildebeest, warthogs,
the Tropic of Capricorn per year. Savannah elephants, zebras, rhinos, gazelle
and the Tropic of Cancer - averages 0 inches of hyenas, cheetahs, lions, leopards
23°north and 23° south). snow per year. The ostrich, mousebirds, starlings, an
The Savannas include US average is 28 weavers.
areas such as Central inches of snow per
Africa (Kenya), America, year.
North and east of South
America (Brazil) and
Australia.

Tropical rainforest Tropical rainforests are The average Rainforests are populated with
mainly located between temperature in insects (like butterflies and beetl
the latitudes of 23.5°N tropical rainforests arachnids (like spiders and ticks),
(the Tropic of Cancer) and ranges from 70 to worms, reptiles (like snakes and
23.5°S (the Tropic of 85°F (21 to 30°C). lizards), amphibians (like frogs an
Capricorn)—the tropics. The environment is toads), birds (like parrots and
Tropical rainforests are pretty wet in tropical toucans) and mammals (like sloth
found in Central and South rainforests, and jaguars). Different animals liv
America, western and maintaining a high different strata of the rainforest.
central Africa, western humidity of 77% to
India, Southeast Asia, the 88% year-round. The
island of New Guinea, and yearly rainfall ranges
Australia. from 80 to 400
inches (200 to 1000
cm), and it can rain
hard.