Biomes Of the World Karlo Sam & Mike. Where in the World is Mike? Characteristics of this biome...

Biomes Of the World

KarloSam

&Mike

Where in the World is Mike?• Characteristics of this biome include:• Extremely cold climate

• Low biotic diversity

• Simple vegetation structure

• Limitation of drainage

• Short season of growth and reproduction

• Energy and nutrients in the form of dead organic material

• Large population oscillations

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Where in the World is Mike?

• The winter temperature range is -65 to 30° F• Temperature range in the summer gets as low as 20° F. The high in

summer can be 70°F

• The total precipitation in a year is 12 - 33 in.

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Where in the World is Mike?

• The average annual temperature in a deciduous forest is 50° F. The

average rainfall is 30 to 60 inches a year. • The animals adapt to the climate by hibernating in the winter and living

off the land in the other three seasons.

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Where in the World is Mike?

• The prairies contained more than 80 species of animals and 300 species of birds, and hundreds of species of plants

• In the winter, grassland temperatures can be as low as -40° F, and

in the summer it can be as high 70° F.

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Where in the world Is Mike?• Temperature ranges from 20 to 25° C. The extreme maximum

temperature ranges from 43.5 to 49° C. Temperature in winter ranges from -2 to 4° C and in the summer 21 to 26° C a year.

• They Don't have very many plants. They do have some low down plants though. The only animals they have that can survive have the ability to burrow under ground. This is because they would not be able to live in the hot sun and heat. They only come out in the night when it

is a little cooler.

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Where in the World is Mike?

• The temperature rarely gets higher than 93 °F or drops below 68 °F• Average humidity is between 77 and 88%.• Rainfall is often more than 100 inches a year.

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Where in the World is Mike?

• Over 70 percent of the earth's surface is by covered this biome.

• The average temperature is about 39 degrees F

• PLANKTON is a mixture of plant and animal life in this biome

• ALGAE is the name for plants which grow under the water

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