Websites

=Food Webs=

[] This site has a little bit of information on food webs (Australian Grasslands, African Grasslands, Antarctic).It allows you to play a game to build your own food web using the organisms provided.

[] An interactive website that lets students create a food web.

=Biomes=

[] This page is a glossary of the five major world biomes.

[] Click on different biomes of the world and learn what makes them unique.

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[] Biome website developed by students.

[] Biomes of the World Click on the different biomes to learn more about each one.

[] This site contains a color coded map of the biomes of the world as well as links to information pages about each biome. The biome pages contain individual maps as well as links to pages about the plants, animals and climate of each biome.

[] This site is put together by the Woodlands Junior School to help their students with homework. It contains very basic information about the major biomes and might be a good place to start.

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[] This site is part of NASA's Classroom of the Future network of sites. It contains links to information about several of the major biomes in the world. There are also instructions for how to read a climograph, which is a graph showing a region's average temperature and precipitation over the year. = = =Tropical Rainforest=

[] Learn about the plants and animals of the rainforest and their locations around the world.

[] Learn more about rainforest and some common household products that come from the rainforest.

[] Learn about why rainforests are so important and what is being done to preserve the rainforests for the future. = = [] Have you heard of the Okapi? Or the Aye-Aye? Did you know that the tropical rain forest biome is where half of the Earth's animal and plant species exist? Read about this fascinating habitat here.

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[] This website gives some information about the geology of the desert and the plants and animals that live in this barren ecosystem.

[] Extensive information about the plants that grow in the desert.

[] This websites lists all the deserts in the United States and in the world.

=Tundra=

[] This website looks at all the elements of the tundra incuding location, climate, animals, plants, and physical characteristics.

[] This website features information on the tundra. Be sure to click on the links on the left.

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=Grasslands=

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[] Click on the pictures to learn more about the grasslands animals.

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[] This site has a brief description of the prairie, steppe, and savanna grasslands. There is also a map of the world's biomes and images of grasslands. NOTE: This site contains a banner ad

=Deciduous Forest/Temperate Forest=

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=Taiga/Boreal Forest=

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