Cutin covers some types of trees' leaves in this biome, and "flagging" trees growing away from the wind are common here.
High-quartz-content soils in this biome are called podzol or spodosol. Wet or dry acidic bogland in this biome is called muskeg and houses large peat deposits. Ermines in this biome hunt prey like snowshoe hares in its dense underbrush. Cutin covers some types of trees' leaves in this biome, and "flagging" trees growing away from the wind are common here. Wildfires allow the Jack Pine to release its seeds and for pests like the spruce budworm to devastate this biome, which extends in a ring around the Arctic Circle. For 10 points, name this largest terrestrial biome, found south of the tundra and characterized by coniferous forests.
High-quartz-content soils in this biome are called podzol or spodosol.
taiga [accept boreal forest] &lt;NL&gt;