What are 8 major biomes on earth?

Answer 1

The names of the major biomes are desert, tundra, tropical rain forest, deciduous forest, taiga, grassland, marine,freshwater, coniferous forest and saltwater

There are other biomes too such as:

temperate rainforest (a rainforest that is outside of tropical latitudes)

savannah (hot, dry grassland)

prairie (a temperate grassland)

For more on sub-biomes and biome information go to:

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/terrestrial-biomes-13236757

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vegetation-no-legend.PNG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ocean_drainage.png

My favorite classification of biomes is by using the WWF system. Type in "WWF biomes" in your search engine.

also wikipedia has great info on biomes and so does

http://worldwildlife.org/biomes

Answer 2

Yes, my comment is that you should name the 8 biomes

like if somebody asked you if you can name all 8 of the biomes?!.

I ask you to name all of the biomes.

My comment is to name the 8 ones,

Answer 3

The 8 major terrestrial biomes:

1) Tropical Forest

2) Grassland

3) Desert

4) Chaparral

5) Temperate Forest

6) Taiga

7) Tundra

8) Mountain/Ice

Answer 4

There are eight biomes one is Marine biome, another one is Tropical Rainforest biome, there is also the Deciduous forest biome, then there is the Desert biome, plus the Taiga biome also known as Boreal forest, also the Tundra biome, then Grassland biome, last but not least there is Savanna biome.

Answer 5

The eight major biomes on Earth are tropical rainforest, tropical dry forest, savanna, desert, temperate grassland, temperate forest, boreal forest, and tundra. Each biome is characterized by its climate, vegetation, and wildlife.

Answer 6

There are the Taiga, Tundra, Desert, Temperate, Rainforest, and Grassland biomes. You may find variations in the listings.

Answer 7

tropical forest

savanna

desert

chaparral

temperate grassland

temperate deciduous forest

coniferous forest

tundra

Answer 8

Tropical rain forest, savanna, desert,chaperral, temperate grassland, temperate decidious forest, coniferous forest, and tundra

Answer 9

# Desert # Tundra # Temperate Deciduous forest

# Temperate rainforest

# Marine # Grassland # Taiga # Tropical rainforest