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What is a biome? Fresh Water Tropical Rain Forest-Tundra-Deserts-Grasslands-
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World Map of Biomes
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A biome is a large area with similar flora, fauna, and microorganisms. An ecosystem is much smaller than a biome.
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All the ecosystems of one type are referred to as a biome.
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An ecosystem is a community of living organisms (plants and animals) sharing an environment. The largest ecosystems are called biomes.
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Rainfall Statistics for each Biome
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The largest part of the biosphere (the earth) is made up of aquatic biomes
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A biome is a large geographical area characterized by certain types of plants and animals. A biome is defined by the complex interactions of plants and animals with the climate, geology (rock formations), soil types, water resources, and latitude (position
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These biomes are grouped into forests, grasslands, shrublands, tundras, savannas, and deserts
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There are many different kinds of plants and animals on the Earth, but only certain kinds are naturally found at any particular place.
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student will learn what a biome is
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Love wikipedia!
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Show students pictures of the tundra, desert, taiga, rain forest, temperate forest, ocean, and grassland
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familiar with the characteristics of biomes and be able to identify them
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Biome Links
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Biomes are different according to the continent on which they occur.
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Introduction to Biomes
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Below is a list of questions about your planet's biomes and the food chains within them.
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Each biome can be described as an area on our earth that shares the same species, climate, animals, and plants. There are actually about 150 different classified biomes today!
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Biomes and Ecozones - Student General Resources
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The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland
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a habitat is the environment in which a plant or animal lives, and the word eco-system refers to the living things in the habitat together with their environment. A biome, a large area with similar flora and fauna, is the broadest term.
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The freshwater biome is a low-saline, or sweetwater, aquatic biome that covers one fifth of the earth's surface
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The marine biome covers three fourths of the earth
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The taiga or boreal forest exists as a nearly continuous belt of coniferous trees across North America and Eurasia
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What is a biome
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Biomes are defined as "the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptations of organisms to that particular environment"
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WorldBiomes.com is a site covering 5 of the major world biomes.
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explain to the class that a biome is a large region with distinctive vegetation and climate
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Vocabulary biome