The Taiga
The Taiga is the largest biome in the world and covers 50 million acres of land. It extends over North America and Eurasia and it is found in places such as mountain tops, deserts and tropical forests. The Taiga is found just below the Tundra biome.
The Taiga is:
2. new plants grow to provide food for the animals that couldn’t live there before, when only evergreen trees existed
- the Russian word for forest
- the largest continuous biome in the world
- also known as the boreal forest
- susceptible to many wildfires
- the trees have adapted by growing thicker bark
2. new plants grow to provide food for the animals that couldn’t live there before, when only evergreen trees existed