Biomes-Tyler

A biome is essentially (by summing up the definition in my dictionary... which I hope is somewhat accurate) a natural occurring community of flora of fauna that occupies a major habitat. Anyplace where the animals and the type of landscape differs would be considered a different 'biome.'

I'll be classifying this as the temperate deciduous forest, (or Boreal Forest) a biome spreading up the entire east coast of North America, through Florida and Georgia, to New York, etc. until it reached Newfoundland and Quebec, where it starts to die off.  It houses shrubs and trees that loose their leaves in the fall and bloom again in the spring.

The beach is split into two biomes: the animals living within the sand and on the shore differ from flora and fauna in the water...  the water line acting as the dividing line. The Atlantic Ocean is an aquatic biome, and the shore acts as a terrestrial one.

The other type of forest that covers quite a bit of land is the Coniferous Forest, which houses pine/cone bearing trees. Unfortunately, you can't really see the pine needles on these trees, because my uncle chopped off all the branches. It's a lot more dense in the northern states than it is in the south, but there still are existing areas where the only trees around are tall pines.


So those were my three examples of biomes existing within Georgia... which is strange, because none of them were taken in Georgia. These habitats are probably the most general ones, because they exist all over the world.

This is the Alpine Biome, typically consisting of mountain goats, types of elk, and cougars. It differs from other mountain ranges like the Rockies along the Western Cordillera because it's a lot less... rocky, so to speak? More foliage can grow on it, and the temperature is a lot less harsh, which allows more wildlife to thrive. 

Finally, there's the tundra, which carries a permafrost coating everything with a slim sheet of ice. People can only crack through it in the summer. This is where wolves, polar bears, snowy owls and other animals that can endure the cold thrive; almost no plant-life can live through it's conditions.