Biomes
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The
World's Biomes
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology. This is an
introduction to the major biomes on Earth: Aquatic,
Deserts, Forests, Grasslands, and Tundra.
Major
Biomes of the World
This module presents basic content on the distribution
and nature of the world's major biomes. It considers
the structure, characteristic growthforms, and taxonomic
affiliations of the vegetation; major soil order(s);
and common adaptive characteristics of the fauna of
the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf deciduous
forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical
savanna, temperate grasslands, desertscrub, and Mediterranean
shrub biomes.
Introduction
to Biomes
Charter School of Education: California State University,
Los Angeles
Earth
Floor: Biomes
Includes the following: Biome Summary, How to Read
a Climograph, Arctic Tundra, Deciduous Forest, Desert,
Taiga,Tropical Rainforest,and Tropical Savannah. The
Classroom of the Future™ (COTF) program is helping
to bridge the gap between America's classrooms and
the expertise of NASA scientists, who have advanced
the frontiers of knowledge in virtually every field
of science over the last forty years. The COTF program
is administered by the Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational
Technologies™ at Wheeling Jesuit University in
Wheeling, West Virginia.
Biomes
These webpages were developed by approximately seventy
9th grade students at Thurston High School in Springfield,
Oregon in 1997. Information has been collected on
the following biomes: Marine,Tundra, Desert, Savannah,
Grassland, Tropical Rain Forest, Deciduous Forest,
Coniferous Forest (Taiga).
Biomes
of the World
Includes information about: Rainforest, Taiga, Tundra,
Desert, Temperate, and Grassland. Missouri Botannical
Gardens
NY
Times - Learning Network - Biomes
Welcome to the Learning Network Web Explorer, your
gateway to a tour
(called a "Web Exploration") of great Web
sites about this topic!
Ecosystems
ThinkQuest Site. The Major Biomes: Mountains (High
Elevation), Tundra, Temperate Forest, Marine/Island,
Desert, Tropical, Dry Forest, Cold Climate Forest,
Grassland, Savannah, Tropical Rainforest.
kidcyber
- Biomes
Click on "planet earth" and then "biomes".
This site has easy to read descriptions of the following
biomes: water, rainforest, tundra, desert, taiga,
deciduous forests, and grassland. Kidcyber is
written and maintained by a primary teacher and primary
teacher-librarian, Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas.
They are authors of numerous books for teachers
and kids published in Australia and overseas.
Temperate
Coniferous Forests
Moist Temperate Coniferous Forests
Rain Forest
In
the Wild: Tropical Rain Forest
Deserts
Desert
USA Desert Life in the American Southwest
