BiomE CharacteristicS

Characteristics of the desert: the ground is rocky/gravely, hot soils. There is barely any shade as trees and plants are low and very few. Water is hardly found and most animals are nocturnal allowing them to come out at night when it is cooler. Most live in burrows or find hideaways for them to live and sleep.

Other biomes characteristics: 

Mountains are usually very large. At the top it becomes very cold because if they are really tall it begins to reach the top of the troposphere where it becomes colder. A mountain is rocky or earthy land that has uplifted and formed into a rounded pointy sorted of way. An animal that lives on mountains is the mountain goat. 

Tundra has a very cold climate. It is a grassland with no trees. Animals who have adapted to the alpine tundra are birds, insects, mountain goats, sheep, elks and few others. To the arctic tundra arctic hares, squirrels, arctic foxes, wolves, birds, insects, polar bears and fish as well as quite a few more.

Marine includes oceans, estuaries and coral reefs. Which by now you can tell we are talking about water and what's below the surface. Under water is coral, fish, crustaceans, clams, octopuses, oysters, worms and a variety of other underwater creatures. 

The tropical dry forest biomes consist of trees. With climate being dry with high temperatures. 

Cold climate forest's water hardly evaporates causing numerous ponds, lakes and marshes. Black bears, wolves, moose, bison, lynx, deer, squirrels and various birds. Obviously the temperatures are low being cold. 

The temperate forest temperatures can range between -30˚C to 30˚C. Summers are warm and winters are cold. Tree leaves change in colour are seasons change.

Grassland summers are really hot crisping the flora to a golden brown but freezing it during winter. Reducing these lands are the animals grazing there (such as deer, bison and horses) and wildfires.

Savannahs are seasonal tropical grasslands that have many birds, lions, cheetahs, leopards, rhinos, elephants, buffalo, hippos, giraffes, zebras, gazelles and lots of others.

(To read more on this, visit: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/tundra.php; http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/marine.php; http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/forests.php;)