Biome Taiga
Kyra Poole
Biome description
A biome is the type of habitat in certain places, like mountain tops, deserts, and tropical forests, and is determined by the climate of the place. The taiga is the biome of the needleleaf forest. Living in the taiga is cold and lonely. Coldness and food shortages make things very difficult, mostly in the winter. Some of the animals in the taiga hibernate in the winter, some fly south if they can, while some just cooperate with the environment, which is very difficult.
Weather and Climate
Temperature range in the summer gets as low as -7° C (20° F). The high in summer can be 21° C (70° F). The summers are mostly warm, rainy and humid. They are also very short with about 50 to 100 frost free days. The total precipitation in a year is 30 - 85 cm (12 - 33 in) . The forms the precipitation comes in are rain, snow and dew. Most of the precipitation in the taiga falls as rain in the summer.
Landforms
Retreating glaciers from the last ice age smoothed much of the taiga land mass. High plains cover most of the area with some mountain ranges dotted throughout. As glaciers receded, they also carved a plethora of lakes, rivers and streams into the vast open stretches that cover most of the taiga biome. Mountains exist in the Taiga biome too. they are always full of snow from top to bottom. Some of these mountains are dormant volcanoes.
Biotic factors
Some animals are Mooses.
lynx
bears
wolverines
foxes
squirrels
Snowy Owls
Biotic factors
Some plants are
~White Spruce
~Siberian Spruce
~Balsam Fir
~Eastern Red Cedar