Biodiversity

A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms

• Biome
• Climograph
• rainforest
• freshwater

An extremely dry area with little water and few plants

• rainforest
• desert
• Grasslands
• coniferous forest

A biome with four seasons, plants shed leaves in the fall and grow new ones in the spring.

• wetland
• deciduous forest
• coniferous forest
• marine

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

water without salt

• Taiga
• rainforest
• marine
• freshwater

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

warm all year; wet and dry seasons small-moderate amount of precipitation

• Grasslands
• wetland
• rainforest
• coniferous forest

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

an area of lush vegetation and year-round rainfall

• Grasslands
• coniferous forest
• rainforest
• Taiga

permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground

• Tundra
• Taiga
• Permafrost
• Climograph

An extremely cold dry biome.

• wetland
• Tundra
• coniferous forest
• Permafrost

Biome in which the winters are cold but summers are mild enough to allow the ground to thaw

• marine
• Biome
• rainforest
• Taiga

A land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year

• wetland
• Grasslands
• coniferous forest
• rainforest

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5