Vocab
Large regions, each characterized by certain types of climate.
What are biomes?
The main biome in Russia.
What are high mountains?
An area where evaporation exceeds precipitation.
Human interaction that has a large concentration of people and buildings.
What are large desert cities?
This is a human interaction that gives us lots of meat in the grassland.
What is overgrazing by livestock?
How much rain and snow in an area.
What is average annual precipitation?
The limiting factors that determine the type of biome.
What is average precipitation and temperature?
Lands dominated by trees with three main classes; tropical, temperate, and cold.
What is forest?
A human interaction that produces a large amount of food in the grasslands.
What is conversion to cropland?
This is a human interaction in the desert. It can be a reason there is a desert in the first place and can be caused by large desert cities.
What is depletion of groundwater?
Things that determine what a biome is.
What are factors?
This is the main biome in South America.
What is tropical rain forest?
An area too moist for deserts and too dry for dry for forests.
What is grasslands?
A human interaction in the forest that is damaged and involves transportation.
What is damage from vehicles?
This is a human interaction in the grassland. It clears land for farming of grazing animals usually and involves heat.
What is release of CO2 from burning grassland?
Small patches of communities within biomes.
What are biological communities?
This is increasing and destroying biomes.
What is human degradation of the environment?
What is mountains?
A human interaction in the mountains that produces electricity.
What is hydroelectric dams and reservoirs?
This is a human interaction in the forest that can be caused by farm runoff and other chemicals.
What is pollution of forest streams?
Ways major biomes are divided up.
What are subgroups?
Antarctica's only biome.
What is polar ice?
What is the main biome in the US?
What is temperate deciduous forest?
A human interaction that gets us building resources.
What is timber and mineral extraction?
This is a human interaction in the forest that can make the forest more vulnerable to disease and usually happens after a forest is logged.
What is conversion of divers forests to tree plantations.