Biome Explorer

What your child will figure out

• Identify desert, rainforest, tundra, grassland, ocean, and forest from visible landscape and climate evidence.
• Match plants and animals to the biome where their adaptations meet climate and habitat conditions.
• Use temperature and rainfall together to distinguish biomes rather than relying on one surface cue.
• Build a simple producer-to-consumer food chain inside a suitable biome and continue with adaptive generated practice.

The levels

1. Hot, dry world

   Predict and identify the desert from low rainfall and high temperature evidence.

2. Toucan relocation

   Act by placing a toucan where warmth, heavy rain, tall trees, and fruit support it.

3. Frozen signal

   Observe both climate measures and explain why freezing, dry, treeless land is tundra.

4. Forest chain

   Transfer the biome model by building an oak-to-deer producer-consumer chain in a suitable forest.

5. Saltwater signal

   Identify the ocean as a biome whose conditions change with depth.

6. Hollow trunks

   Connect a woodpecker's feeding and nesting adaptations to forest structure.

7. Desert energy

   Reapply the producer-consumer model with a cactus-to-camel desert chain.

8. Two forests

   Distinguish rainforest from seasonal forest using warmth, rainfall, and canopy evidence.

9. Low on the tundra

   Use plant form as evidence by matching low-growing arctic moss to tundra.

10. Grazing energy

    Reinforce energy transfer with a grass-to-zebra grassland chain.

11. Changing canopy

    Synthesize rainfall and seasonal temperature evidence to identify temperate forest.

12. Ocean transfer

    Transfer the producer-consumer model by building a kelp-to-sea-turtle ocean chain.