Solid earth, it’s home to a wide variety of the Earth’s species. It comes in all different kinds of shapes and sizes – from the frozen tundra to the desert.
Different types of environments are called biomes. Biomes share climate, and plant and animal life. Land biomes include:
Tundra – Find out about life in one of the worlds harshest environments.
Taiga – Cold in the winter and warm in the summer, the taiga is the world’s largest land biome.
Temperate/Deciduous Forests – Organisms in temperate deciduous forest must be able to adapt to four distinct seasons.
Grasslands- Grasslands cover one quarter of the Earth’s land area.
Rainforests – Whether they are temperate or tropical all rainforests have one thing in common — lots of rain!
Deserts – Deserts are the most extreme of the land biomes and they can be hot or cold!
… that there are cold and hot deserts.
… that the taiga is the world’s largest land biome.
… that tropical rainforest can get as much as 400 inches of rain a year.
Learn more about some of the animals found in grasslands, deserts, the taiga and the tundra.
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