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A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities.

Image: Biome

A tropical / subtropical grassland biome with scattered individual trees, large herbivores, and three distinct seasons based primarily on rainfall, maintained by occasional fires and drought.

Image: Savanna

A region of little vegetation, either cold or hot, that receives ten inches or less of precipitation each year, long periods without rain, deserts have extreme temperatures.

Image: Desert

Biome that surrounds the north and south poles; treeless landscape with short, cool summers, and long, very cold winters with short periods of winter sunlight, beneath the topsoil is a layer of permafrost.

Image: Tundra

Temperate Deciduous Forest

Characterized by warm summers, cool winters, has all four seasons, year-round precipitation and fertile soil.

Image: Temperate Deciduous Forest

Cone-bearing trees (ie: pine, or fir tree) of middle and high latitudes that are mostly evergreen and that have needle-shaped or scale like leaves. Conifers are able to withstand the long, cold winter season.

Image: Conifer

Coniferous Forest

Forest populated by cone-bearing evergreen trees; mostly found in the colder northern latitudes.

Image: Coniferous Forest

All the plant life in a particular region, or period.

Image: Flora

All of the animal life in a particular region, or period.

Image: Fauna

A large area of flat land, or rolling hills covered by grasses and wild flowers but few trees.

Image: Prarie

Climate zones with moderate (warm) temperatures that are located between the tropics and the polar zones.

Image: Temperate

A layer of permanently frozen subsoil found in the tundra

Image: Permafrost

biome at high mountain altitudes, which has vegetation & climate similar to those of the Arctic tundra
(though no permafrost)

Image: Alpine Tundra

Biome that includes open ocean, seashore, and it covers 75% of the planet. There is a very high salinity level, and a wide variety of animals

Image: Marine

A general term for the tiny, free-floating or weakly swimming organisms that live in both freshwater and saltwater environments.

Image: Plankton

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