Rabusa, Ronel P.

SBAC-2C

TERRESTRIAL BIOMES
PRECIPITATION PLANTS ANIMALS LOCATION PICTURE

ORCHIDS GORILLA
SOUTH AMERICA
TROPICAL Rainforests receive the
most rain of all the biomes
RAINFORES in a year! A typical year
NEW GUINEA
T sees 2,000 to 10,000 CACAO TREES SUMATRA
CASSOWARY
millimeters (79 to 394
inches) of rain per year.

BROMELIAD
RED EYED TREE FROG

TUMBLEWEED DESERT TORTOISE

Most experts agree that a
SAHARA
desert is an area of land
that receives no more
DESERT than 25 centimeters (10 WILDFLOWERS
MAURITANIA

inches) of precipitation BACTRIAN CAMEL MOROCCO

a year.

PRICKLY PEAR
CACTUS
COYOTE
 MOSS CAMPION POLAR BEAR
Precipitation in the tundra
ALASKA
totals 150 to 250 mm a
TUNDRA year, including melted
CANADA
snow.
CARIBOU MOSS RED FOX
SIBERIA

COTTON GRASS WILD YAK

JACK PINE LYNX RUSSIA

The total yearly
precipitation in the taiga FINLAND
TAIGA biome is 10 - 30 inches
(25 - 75 cm). SPRUCE TREES RED-THROATED LOON EURASIA

CONIFEROUS TREE WOLVERINE

TROPICAL Tropical grasslands SOUTH AMERICA
include the hot savannas
GRASSLAND of sub-Saharan Africa and INDIA
northern Australia. BERMUDA GRASS ELEPHANT
AUSTRALIA
Rainfall can vary across
grasslands from season to
season and year to year,
ranging from 25.4 to FEATHER GRASS BROWN BEAR
101.6 centimeters (10 to
40 inches) annually.
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GRASS

BRITISH
LICHEN
WOODLAND
JAGUARS
TROPICAL The precipitation can SOUTH AMERICA
TEMPERAT reach over 100 inches a
E year.

MAPLE LEOPARDS

JAPAN

MAGNOLIA TIGERS

EUROPEAN RED SQUIRREL

OAK
The average yearly NEWZEALAND
TEMPERAT precipitation is 30-60
E inches (75 150 cm). This CHINA
DECIDUOUS precipitation falls DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS
throughout the year, but in HICKORY EASTERN UNITED
FOREST the winter, it falls as snow. STATES

EASTERN CHIPMUNK
CHESTNUT