Two types of biomes are alpine and tundra. Alpine is cold, snowy, windy. It is filled with mountains and there are high winds and ice. They have an altitude of about 10,000 feet or more. Even in summer, the temperature is around 10 to 15 degree C. In winter, the temperture is below freezing and last from October to May. Because the severe climate of the Alpine biome, plants and animals have developed adaptations to those conditions. There are only about 200 species of Alpine plants. At high altitudes there is very little CO2, which plants need for them to carry on photosynthesis. Some animals that lives in Alpine are alpaca, andeam condor, chinchilla, llama, mountain goat, snow leopard, vicuna, and yak.
A savanna is a grassland scattered with shrubs and isolated trees, which can be found between a tropical rainforest and desert biome. There is not enough rain falls on a savanna to support forests. Savannas are also known as tropical grasslands. They are found in a wide band on either side of the equator on the edges of tropical rainforests. Unlike Apline, Savannas have warm temperature year round. There are actually two very different seasons in a savanna; a very long dry season (winter), and a very wet season (summer). In the dry season only an average of about 4 inches of rain falls. Between December and February no rain will fall at all. Savanna has animals like african elephant, caracal, emu, lion, koala bear, and nile crocodile.
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