Biome Graphic Organizer – One Biome Sheet, Biomes Chart

How it works

A biome is described by its climate and by the plants and animals that live in it. This biome graphic organizer gives each of those a box, with room for one adaptation and for how people use or change it.

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Which biomes are on the chart

There is more than one way to divide the world into biomes, and books list them differently. The land rows of the chart are the seven of NASA's Mission: Biomes pages, and its two water rows stand for the freshwater and marine biomes. The blank chart takes any other list.

Why climate is the first box

One classification scheme sorts the land biomes by two measures alone, average yearly temperature and average yearly precipitation. Filling in the climate box first gives students the reason for what they write about the plants and animals.

The tundra gets so little rain and snow that NASA likens it to a desert: a good pair for the two biomes sheet.
For the climate table, NASA's Mission: Biomes pages give monthly temperature and precipitation for one place in each land biome.

Questions and answers

What is a biome?

A biome is a community of plants and animals living together in a certain kind of climate. The same biome turns up in many parts of the world: grassland is found on every continent except Antarctica.

What are the major biomes?

Lists differ. NASA's Mission: Biomes describes seven on land: tundra, coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, rainforest, grassland, shrubland and desert. Other schemes also name freshwater and marine biomes.

Which biome gets the most rain?

The rainforest gets the most rain of the biomes NASA describes, 2,000 to 10,000 millimeters in a typical year. The desert is the driest, and the tundra is the coldest.

All 12 organizers

One biome a page 4

Biome graphic organizer: one biome in six boxes A whole page for one biome: its climate, plants, animals and place on Earth, one adaptation and how people use or change it.
Climate data for one place: a row for each month Twelve rows for the average temperature and the rain and snow of each month, ready to turn into a climate graph.
Draw a biome, then describe it A space at the top to draw the biome over three boxes for its climate, plants and animals.
Exit slips: one biome, two to a page Two half sheets with a cut line between them: one biome, its climate, and a plant and an animal that live there.

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Charts of the biomes 5

Blank chart: write in your own list of biomes The same four questions with the first column left empty, for a class whose book names or counts the biomes another way.
Land and water biomes chart Nine biomes down the side of a landscape page, seven on land and two in water, with a box each for its climate, its plants, its animals and where on Earth it is found.
Seven land biomes on an upright page Tundra to desert with taller boxes: climate, plants and animals, and where it is found.
Two biomes side by side Write a biome at the top of each column, then compare them a row at a time.
Which biome is it? Seven clues One clue for each of the seven land biomes, with a box to name it.

Samples and answer key 3

Answer key: which biome is it? The seven clues with the biome each one describes.
Sample biome sheet, filled in: tundra The six boxes done for the tundra, with the last left for the class.
Sample climate data, filled in: a tundra town Monthly averages for Aklavik, Canada, in degrees Celsius and millimeters, from NASA's Mission: Biomes page for the tundra.

How this list was compiled: Our own layouts and wording; no publisher's organizer is copied. The seven land biomes, the clues, the tundra sample and the climate figures for Aklavik, Canada, were checked against NASA's Mission: Biomes pages, the tundra animals against the Wikipedia article Tundra, and the freshwater and marine biomes against the Wikipedia article Biome, all read October 14, 2026. Licence: own work