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a large-scale ecosystem. Its climate and the plants and animals adapted to living in that climate are what make it different from other biomes |
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Moderate temperatures and moderate amounts of rainfall. The deciduous trees are broad leafed and they shed their leaves each year. |
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| Grasses as far as the eye can see with moderate temperatures, rainfall is light, and various grasses are the dominant plants. |
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| The sun is always shining, it doesn't rain very often, and the soil and air are both very dry. This Biome has little or no water, only a few kinds of plants can grow there. |
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a forest of needle-leaved evergreens that extends in a broad belt across Eurasia and North America. Evergreens-pines, firs, spruces, and hemlocks are adapted to this biome |
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| A rolling plain with low temperatures and long winters. Only smaller plants with shallow roots can survive there. Just below the surface their is a layer of permafrost (a layer of permanently frozen soil) |
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