Forest Biomes Around the World (Exploring Earth's Biomes)

It's a full home under the leaves of a forest! From spiders and frogs to deer and bears, the temperate forest biome has just the right shelter and weather for a large variety of plants and animals. Learn about the geography and resources of the temperate forest biome as well as how animals and people have adapted to and impacted forest environments. Explore this biome's future and what people can do to help keep it safe.

Uses maps, satellite images, photographs, and other representations to explain relationships between the locations of places and regions and their environmental characteristics (C3 Foundation D2.Geo.2.3-5), Describes how environmental characteristics influence population distribution in specific places or regions (C3 Foundation D2.Geo.6.3-5), Explains how environmental characteristics affect the distribution and movement of people, goods, and ideas.(C3 Foundation D2.Geo.7.3-5), Explains how human settlements and movements relate to the locations and use of various natural resources (C3 Foundation D2.Geo.8.3-5), Exhibits why environmental characteristics vary among different regions (C3 Foundation D2.Geo.10.3-5)