This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes in the world; tropical forests, savannas, deserts, temperate grasslands, temperate deciduous forests, Mediterranean scrub, coniferous ...

Provides an introduction to Earth's biomes, explaining how they are communities of living organisms shaped by climate and ...

This clip is from the series Ecosystems and Biomes. This could be used to introduce students to the coniferous forest biome, and how plants and animals have adapted to the conditions. Students ...

The final stop in our biome series is the forest. This broad biome can be broken down into the temperate deciduous forest, coniferous forest, and the rainforest. See the video for details on each.

About 10% of the Sami - mostly those involved with reindeer - move their animals across the tundra coniferous forest biomes in response to the seasons. So whilst at first this may seem like a ...