Biomes- Land

Land Biomes

                      A large naturally occuring community

Polar Regions

• Arctic
• Antarctic
• Ice caps
• Animals find food in ocean
• Penguins, albatross, gulls
• Whales, seals
• Polar Bears
• South/North Pole
• Very Cold Here

Tundra

• Cold- 7'c
• 2 seasons
• Long, dark winter
• Short summer
• Close to North Pole
• Soil is frozen all year
• no trees, growing season is too short
• Plant life- grass, shrubs
• Animals: Foxes, snow owls, hares, muskox, caribou

Forest

• Temperature is on average 20-25
  -Soil is nutrient-poor and acidic-Forest grow where it's not too hot not too cold-lots of nutrients and water-Animals: moose, deer, bears, wolves, foxes, rabbits, squirrels as well as plenty birds and reptiles

Savannah and Grasslands

• Grassland and Savanna:*Grassland and Savannah are related and often intermixed biomes typically dominated by grasses
  
  
  
• Savannah is located in ''Africa''! Savannahs of one sort or another cover almost half the surface of Africa.
• True grassland supports few if any woody plants, while Savanna include varying proportions or shrubs and trees

Biomes- Marine

Here is my google drawing of the Marine Biome 

                                  Biomes

Definition: Biomes

A Biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct 

biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate. (Wikipedia) Biomes are also large groups of similar ecosystems

Marine Biome (largest BIOME)

-  Covers 70% of the world's surface

- Made of Salt Water

- Many sea animals live in the Marine Biome such as:

  Fish, seahorses, octopuses, seals, manatees, whales and more more

- Provides half of the world's oxygen

Coral Reef

- Found in warm sunny water

Fresh Water

- Low level salt

- Fish, frogs, alligators, snakes, beavers

-Ponds, Lakes, Streams, Rivers, Wetlands

Welcome back Blog Readers, Today for our Inquiry this term we have been learning a lot about Our Planet, World, Atmosphere, Biospheres and Earth. To research more into that topic we had to watch a video about Biomes together as a class. In that video it stated facts about different Biomes and what they are all about. As a class we had to make this Blog Post and list the stuff that we had watched in the video onto this. After that we were told to make a Google Drawing Explaining more about what we wrote here. Hope you enjoy reading this.

The Biosphere

WALT: Learn more about the Biosphere, it's 4 different spheres and Biomes. Watch a video related to Biomes and describe it in a few sentences