Habitats & Biomes
📋 What it is
A biome is a large region defined by its climate — desert, rainforest, tundra — each with fitting life.
🗣️ Coach says
Zoom out from a single habitat and you get a biome: a huge region shaped by its climate. Deserts are hot and dry; rainforests warm and wet; tundra cold and bare. The climate decides which plants and animals can live there — life fits the biome.
🧠 Memory hook
Biome = a huge region set by climate. Climate decides who can live there.
😂 Giggle
Why don't predators ever play hide and seek with prey?
Because the prey always squeaks first!
😲 Whoa!
The Amazon rainforest makes so much of its own rain that scientists call it a “flying river” — the trees recycle water back into the sky.
✅ Quick check: What mainly decides which biome a region is — its climate or its country?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Its climate (temperature and rainfall) — a biome is defined by climate, which sets what life can survive there.
Biomes are climate-defined regions, not political ones.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Name your local biome by its climate (dry? forested? cold?). Then name one plant that fits it.