Biomes & Ecology
📋 What it is
A biome is a large region defined by its climate and the life adapted to it — desert, rainforest, tundra, grassland, and more.
🗣️ Coach says
Give me a place’s temperature and rainfall and I can guess its biome. Hot and wet? Rainforest. Cold and dry? Tundra. The living things there aren’t random — they’re built to survive that exact climate.
🧠 Memory hook
Climate → biome → the life that fits it. Temperature + rain decide.
😂 Giggle
What do you call a map that sings?
A chart-topper!
😲 Whoa!
The Amazon rainforest makes so much of its own rain that scientists call it a “flying river” — it recycles water through its trees.
✅ Quick check: What two climate factors most decide which biome a region will be?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Temperature and precipitation (how warm it is and how much rain/snow it gets).
Predicting a biome from climate is exactly the reasoning geographers use.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Pick a biome (desert, rainforest, tundra) and name one animal or plant built to survive it.