1. Using the internet, make detailed notes on the climate, flora and fauna, and threats to each biome.
Biome Climate
Polar Lands Temperature is really cold and
 Avery dry. During the summer the
 Jemima average temperature is 0 °C. In
the winter the average
temperature drops to – 40 °C.
Tundra Temperatures are extremely cold,
 Lily their winters are long, dark, and
 Hanna cold, with average temperatures
below 0°C for six to 10 months of
the year.
Boreal Forest Long, very cold, dry winters and
 Alexi short, cool, moist summers. The
 Grace average temperature is estimated
between -30°F and -65°F. During
summers the temperatures
change drastically and can be
moderately hot. The temperature
may rise to an average of 20°F to
70°F.
Flora and Fauna Threats
Flora: mosses, lichens, Global Warming which
sedges, grasses, and leads to sea ice loss can
woody shrubs make it hard for animals to
live. Water pollution,
Fauna: Polar bears, artic mining, shipping, oil and
hares, artic fox, reindeer. gas development, and
overfishing.
Flora: grasses, moss, The oil, gas and mining
dwarf shrubs, lichens and industries can ruin and
cotton grass. disrupt tundra habitats.
Fauna: Arctic hare, musk
ox, snow goose, wild yak
Flora: Jack Pine, Moss, Some threats to the boreal
Grass, Small shrubs, pine forest are: wildland fires,
trees forest pest infestations,
climate change, resource
Fauna: Reindeer, development (e.g. mines,
Snowshoe hare, oil and gas, agriculture),
Wolverine, bears, linear disturbances (e.g.
beavers roads, pipelines, seismic-
exploration lines) recreation
 An average of 16-39 inches of
snowfall has been recorded in the
forest during winter.
Mountain Vegetation In the summer temperatures
 Kyley reach around 10-15 degrees and
 Zoe during the winter the temperature
is below 0 degrees. Winter lasts
from October to May and summer
season lasts from june to
september. However the weather
can change very quickly and can
go from warm to freezing in less
than a day.
and human activity.
urban expansion
Flora: because of how Threats: Climate change,
dry and windy it is in the sulphur emmisions,
mountains, most plants acidification in
find t hard to thrive, there nature/environment,
are only 200 species of decreasing snow cover at
plants that grow in this high elevations, nature
drying up.
biome with most being
ground cover plants that
which grow and
reproduce very slowly.
The plants include grass
and shrubbery and
smaller trees. Because of
the quickly changing
weather conditions, the
plants must adapt to cold
and hot weather as well
as the lack of carbon
dioxide which plants need
to thrive.
Fauna: Animals that live
in this biome have certain
adaptations that allow it

Biome Climate
Temperate Forest Temperatures range from hot in
 Maria the summer, with highs of 30
 Ava celcius, to extremely cold in the
 Charlotte winter, with lows of -30 celcius.
Temperate forests receive
abundant amounts of
precipitation, usually between
50cm and 150cms of precipitation
annually. There is also additional
fog and snow in these forests.
to survive the cold, windy
and snowy conditions
and high exposure to UV.
Warm blooded animals
mostly live here as there
is a lack of heat in this
climate. The animals in
this climate vary however
include small rodents like
chinchillas and various
birds, snow leopards,
mountain goats and
insects like grasshoppers
and butterflies.
Flora and Fauna Threats
Insects, spiders, slugs, These observed changes
frogs, turtles and include deforestation for
salamanders are land use and agriculture,
common. Birds like forest fires and species
broad-winged hawks, migration. With warming
cardinals, snowy owls, tempratures drought is a
and woodpeckers are majour issue as the
found in this biome. humidity in these rainforest
Mammals in temperate is dropping
forests include white-
tailed deer, raccoons,
opossums, porcupines
and red foxes.

Desert Temperatures can rise to 38 oC
 Riva (average) and drop at night to –
 India 3.9 oC. Deserts can have
extreme temperatures, High wind
velocity and absence of water
vapour in the air (dry) and water
in general.
Tropical Rainforest Annual rainfall is very high,
 Sahej usually higher than 1800mm, and
 Cynthia in some place it reaches
 Bronte 3500mm.
It is humid all over the year with
Most of the trees are
broadleaf trees such as
oak, maple, beech,
hickory and chestnut.
There are also several
different kinds of plants
like mountain laurel,
azaleas and mosses that
live on the shady forest
floor where only small
amounts of sunlight get
through.
The prickly pear cactus Grazing animals can
(Opuntia) is a succulent destroy many plants and
known for its large animals. Pottasium
flowers and fruit. cyaindide used in gold
Tumbleweeds are a mining is poisionus to the
group of different plant wildlife, and mining in
species that grow in arid, general is harmful to the
dry and hot conditions environment. Oil and gas
like deserts. production is disruptive.
The Arabian sand gazelle
(also known as a ‘reem’)
is a small antelope.
Monkeys, bats, possums, Deforestation is a very
tigers, foxes, (Insects) important threat to tropical
Beetle, ants, spiders rainforests, when trees are
(Amphibians and reptiles) cut down and spaces are
Snakes, frogs, gekos, cleared out, many animals
komodo dragons, lose their homes and
 the relative air humidity above
95%.
There is no obvious seasonal
change. The temperature is
around 30℃ during the day and
around 20℃ during the night.
Grasslands The temperatures of grassland
 Cindy biomes are often extreme, with
 Ivy dry warm summers and cool, wet
 Matilda winters. The average
temperatures range from –20'C to
30’C. There is a medium amount
of rainfall varying from about 500
to 950 mm per year. The
temperature usually depends on
the seasons.
chemelon. source of food. Poaching is
also a very important threat,
In tropical rainforests, many tropical rainforest
leafy shrubs, ferns, non- animals are going extinct
flowering plants, small due to the large amounts of
trees, climbing vines and killing and hunting. Pollution
epiphytes (air-plants, is also a threat which has
plants that don’t need grown bigger over time.
soil.) Many toxic waste products
suffocate animals and
plants, which harm their
bodies slowly damage or
kill them.
Flora: mainly grass. For Threats to natural
the temperate grasslands biomes and the
grasslands, you can see wildlife there consist of
clovers, sunflowers, mostly climate change,
cottonwoods, oaks and invasive species and
buffalo grass etc. For the human actions such as
tropical grassland, you unsustainable farming,
can see candelabra tree, overgrazing and illegal
jackalberry tree, umbrella hunting. These threats
thorn acacia, Bermuda could lead to habitat loss
grass and elephant grass and endangerment of
etc. animal species. Poor
agricultural processes could
cause damage to the soil
Fauna: The fauna in the and strip grasslands of life.
grassland biomes The main natural threat to
consists of mainy the grassland biomes are
mammals and some bird, wildfires caused by the dry
reptile and insect heat in the warmer
species. With animals seasons.
such as deers, zebras,
giraffes, bisons, etc. A lot
of the fauna is grassland
biomes are herbivores
due to the large amount
of grass to feed on.