A region with a warm growing season and abundant rainfall. Deciduous trees such as maple, oak, an hickory. Organisms include white-tailed deer, opossum, and raccoons. Broad-leaved evergreen trees, dominated by hemlock, cedar, and spruce. Animal life in the temperate rain forest include the grasshoppers, lemmings, and frogs.
Dominant vegetation consists of tall trees.
Woody vines grow in rain forest, and a large number of plants of the type called epiphytes live among the tall trees. Rain forest supports a diverse array of insects, and birds. The Tundra receives very little precipitation less than 10 inches a year. Tundra dominated by herbaceous plants, mosses, lichens, and dwarf willows. Musk oxen and caribou inhabit the tundra share habitat with white foxes, and snowy owls.