Plants and Animals

Ecology Plants and Animals

Biome	Places Found	Animals	Plants
Tundra	Edge of the Great Ice Masses of Asia, North America and Europe	Caribou, musk ox, wolf and Arctic fox	Grasses, mosses, lichens, sedges
Conifer Forests	Coastal Areas of Canada, Alaska, and parts of Asia	Moose, wolf, fox, deer squirel	Fir, pine, spruce, redwoods
Deciduous Forests	Parts of Western Europe, Eastern Asia and Eastern North America	Wapiti, deer, beaver opossum, rabbit birds such as the woodpecker	Oak, birch, beech, maple
Tropical Rain Forest	Asia, Africa and South America	Monkeys, colourful birds, a great variety of insects, jaguars	Trees, ferns, orchids,climbers
Desert	Includes parts of Australia, North America, Africa, Asia and South Amercica	Scorpians, lizards, snakes,insects, some deer and gazelles, camels, bats	Catus, succulants, shrubs, date palms grow where there is underground water
Grassland	Far away from the sea coast in North America, Africa, Asia and South America	Bison (North America); elephants, lions, zebra (Africa)	Grasses, scrub, herb-like plants very few trees
Reef	Between land and sea	Brightly coloured fish, starfish, corals	Seaweeds
Rocky Shore	Surrounds land masses. High tide and low tide zone	Shrimps, small fish, anemones, crabs, sea slugs, sea birds	Algae, seaweeds plankton
Ocean	70% of Earth's Surface	Whales, fish, dolphins	Algae, seaweeds, plankton