Biomes

Question 1

Biomes

Answer 1

complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax.

Question 2

grasslands

Answer 2

an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, characteristic of subhumid and semiarid climates.

Question 3

taiga

Answer 3

the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.

Question 4

tundra

Answer 4

the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.

Question 5

desert

Answer 5

a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:

Question 6

deciduous forest

Answer 6

a type of forest characterized by trees that seasonally shed their leaves

Question 7

tropical rain forest

Answer 7

a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.