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| tundra | a region that is a cold, dry, treeless, where winters are six to nine months long. |
| desert | direst region on Earth, supports little plant life and receives less than 25 cm or rain yearly. |
| tropical rainforest | most important climax community in the equatorial regions of the world is lush in green plant growth, rainfall, and warm temperatures often compared to the atmosphere inside a greenhouse. |
| temperate deciduous forest | found both in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres at lattitudes below 50 degrees. They are regions usually having four distinct seasons each year. |
| grassland | a region dominated by climax communities of grasses but that, due to a dry season, does not have forests. |
| taiga | a region that is cold of cone-bearing evergreen trees. The winter is long and cold but is located between about 50 degrees North and 60 degrees North Lattitudes. |
| freshwater | example of regions where one would find this biome arerivers,streams, ponds, and lakes |
| saltwater | examples of where one would find this biome are Great Salt Lake in Utah, estuaries, and intertidal zones |
