Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Biomes (The current world boimes (Dry temperate biomes (Shrublands and…

- - - - If grass grows between trees it is called Savana
      - Woodland is similar to forest except trees are widely spaced
      - Shrublands are similar but trees are replaced by shrubs
    - - Deserts are highly patchy ecosystem, and slight variation in soil type, drainage and elevation
      - The driest region of temperate areas
    - - Extensive grassland occur between the Cascade mountains and Rocky mountains
      - Entire central plain of North America often referred as prairie
    - - Found short tree found mostly with branches on side away from the wind
      - Located above the highest point where trees survive in mountains
  - - - High elevation has increased precipitation and winds and decreased temperature and growing season
      - Occurs at the base of mountains
    - - Rich species diversity for animals and fungi
      - found in cold winters and warm but not summers
    - - Dominated by giant long lived conifers
      - Rich growth in epiphytic mosses, liverworts and ferns
    - - Occurs at the southern edge of oak pine component
      - Precipitation is higher than in inland temperate deciduous forest areas
  - - - Areas of tropics with lower rainfall develop ad thorn- scrub
      - The best known Savana's are in Africa
      - Also occur in Brazil, Australia and Venezuela
    - - High mountains have cool nights but at very high elevation frost encountered
      - high rainfall have tropical rainforest, drier areas have Grassland and Savana
    - - Rain typically occurs everyday with fresh morning then a rapid cloud frmation
      - Occur close to equator, Hawaii Puerto Rico and Guam have tropical rainforest
- - - - The size of land mass influences the weather it receives
      - Desert islands are extremely dry
      - Continents also cause air to rise, cool and drop precipitation
  - - - when earth is tilted the light will spread
      - the incident angle of sunlight cause the difference in heat
      - sun perpendicular to earth cause more heat
    - - At high altitude the solar radiation spread
      - equator is the hottest part of the planet is because its surface is perpendicular to the sun's rays.
    - - The axial tilt doesn't change throughout the year
      - Earth travels to the other side of the sun resulting the change
      - Different latitudes receive different sun angles
    - - As the angle changes the length of day changes
      - After the equinox, the days begin to get shorter in one hemisphere and longer in the other
      - The N.Hemisphere and S.Hemisphere receive the same amount of sunlight
- - - - Gondwanaland moved north and ran into Laurasia, pushing up the Alps
      - Virtually, all land on globe was located as one supercontinent, Pangaea
      - Lifetime was beginning to move onto land and Rhyniophytes were evolving
    - - Many new plants evolved, Caytoniales, Cycadeoidophyta, and Ginkgophyta
      - Tethys sea formed
      - Just after Permian period, the climate worldwide may have warmed
      - The collision of south America and North America occur
    - - Eurasia consist of either one continent or two
      - In southern hemisphere there was giant continent called Gondwanaland
      - Several separate continents were distributed in a vast ocean