Biodiversity: Biomes in The World

  1. Tropical Rainforest
    • Location: Found around the equator in South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.
    • Features: Lush, dense forests with abundant rainfall, high temperatures, and incredible biodiversity.
    • Plants: Characterised by tall trees with broad leaves, epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants), and abundant vines.
    • Animals: Teeming with life, including monkeys, snakes, insects, colourful birds, and frogs.
  2. Temperate Rainforest
    • Location: Found along the western coasts of North America, Europe, South America, New Zealand, and Tasmania.
    • Features: Moderate temperatures, abundant rainfall, and evergreen trees with broad leaves.
    • Plants: Dominated by broadleaf evergreen trees like oak, maple, and beech.
    • Animals: Home to deer, elk, bears, wolves, foxes, and various bird species.
  3. Taiga
    • Location: Stretching across Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and northern Europe.
    • Features: Vast coniferous forests with long, cold winters and short, mild summers.
    • Plants: Primarily coniferous trees like spruce, pine, and fir, adapted to withstand harsh winters.
    • Animals: Large mammals like moose, caribou, wolves, bears, and wolverine.
  4. Temperate Deciduous Forest Biome
    • Location: Eastern North America, Europe, eastern Asia.
    • Features: Distinct four seasons with warm, moist summers and cold winters. Trees lose their leaves in fall.
    • Plants: Deciduous trees like oak, maple, beech, and hickory.
    • Animals: Deer, wolves, foxes, rabbits, squirrels, and a variety of bird species.
  5. Grassland
    • Location: Found on most continents except Antarctica, including the African savannas, North American prairies, and Eurasian steppes.
    • Features: Wide-open plains dominated by grasses, with few trees.
    • Plants: Various grasses adapted to grazing and fire.
    • Animals: Large herbivores like bison, zebras, wildebeest, and kangaroos, with predators like lions, cheetahs, and wolves.
  6. Desert
    • Location: Found on every continent except Europe. Major Deserts include the Sahara, Gobi, and Australian Outback.
    • FeaturesArid regions with little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
    • Plants: Cacti, succulents, shrubs, and other drought-resistant plants.
    • Animals: Animals adapted to conserve water, such as camels, snakes, lizards, insects, and rodents.
  7. Tundra
    • Location: Found in the Arctic and on mountaintops.
    • Features: Cold, barren regions with permanently frozen subsoil (permafrost) and limited plant growth.
    • Plants: Mosses, lichens, low-growing shrubs, and wildflowers that bloom briefly in the summer.
    • Animals: Reindeer, caribou, polar bears, arctic foxes, and migratory birds.

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