Various land biomes encountered by a traveler (from the equator to arctic polar ice cap continued... 

-Coniferous forests (aka boreal forests) found North of the deciduous forests. This is the taiga biome. 
-triangular shaped; trees of boreal forest are evergreens (cone bearing/needle leaved trees consisting of spruce, fir and tamarack). 
-Winters of taiga are extremely cold and during the summer the subsoil thaws and vegetation flourishes. 
-Tundra is the most continuous biome and is found in a circle around the north pole. 
-Tundra is characterized by a mixture of lichens, mosses, grasses, sedges, and perennial herbs (able to withstand often freezes) 
-Permanent layer of frozen soil lies a few inches to feet below the surface 
-Mammals of the tundra: birds, reindeer, lemmings, caribou, arctic wolves, foxes, hares, polar bears (in short, number of different species is limited) 
-The biomes of the desert regions and the sclerophylous bushlands are irregularly......

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