Biomes

Question 0

Taiga

Answer 0

A Taiga biome is the home of the Needleleaf Forest. A Taiga Biome gets very cold in winter and it’s animals either fly South or hibernate in winter.

Question 1

Tundra

Answer 1

A Tundra is a biome that is commonly formed in the Northern Hemisphere circumnavigating the Arctic. They sometimes form in the Southern Hemisphere but these conditions are usually too cold so the land is covered in snow and ice anyway. A Tundra has frozen subsurface conditions meaning that no trees can grow there.

Question 2

Grasslands

Answer 2

Grassland biomes are often extremely large fields of grass, herbs and flowers. The soil of grasslands are often too fine, dry and soft for trees to survive. A lot of drought and fire often goes through grasslands but grasslands can survive bushfires where trees can’t.

Question 3

Deciduous Forest

Answer 3

Deciduous Forest is just a normal forest but full of Deciduous trees. Deciduous trees are trees that drop their leaves in winter

Question 4

Chaparral

Answer 4

Chaparral terrain is just a bunch of small bushes and grasses like the terrain in the way out to Shark Bay

Question 5

Desert

Answer 5

Deserts don’t have any plants and not very much rain. A dry desert is all sand and has no plants or rain a cold desert is like in Antarctica.

Question 6

Desert-Scrub

Answer 6

A hot climate but with small shrubs growing - like the terrain on the drive out to Shark Bay

Question 7

Savanna

Answer 7

A savanna is a Rollin grassland covered with shrubs and isolated trees. It can be found between a tropical rainforest and a desert biome

Question 8

Rainforest

Answer 8

A forest where it rains a lot

Question 9

Alpine

Answer 9

Mountainous, cold, snowy. Lies just below the snow line for a mountain. Rocky Mountains = Desert > Deciduous Forest > Grassland > Steppe > Taiga > Alpine