EE20 Flashcards
What are the 7 biomes?
tropical wet and dry desert meditaranian grasslands temperate decidious boreal conifer taiga tundra (artic and alpine)
What are key determinates of boundaries between biomes?
- seasonality
- rainfall
- temperature
What are the other names for the meditaranian?
sclephylous woodland temperate evergreen chaparral maguis pgyana garrique
10 degrees N/S equator
Tropical forest
40-60 degrees N of equator
temperate deciduous
30-50 degrees S of equator
temperate decidious
10-40 degrees in both hemisphere
desert
60-70 in N hemisphere
boreal conifer taiga
30-40 degree in N/S
meditarranian
far north around north pole
artic tundra
moutains round world where trees cannot grow
alpine tundra
30-50 in both hemispheres
grassland
1 or more pronounced dry seasons
tropical dry forest
mild moist climate often oceanic
temperate decidious
long frost free growing season
temperate decidious
characteristic floral of spring flowers epremerals blue bells etc
temperate decidious
dominated by shrubs succulents and drought resistent grasses
desert
post rain flush of colour from long persistent seed bank
desert
spectacular flush of early spring flowers
meditaranian
evergreen conifer dominated spruce picea
boreal conifer taiga
rain fall high relative to evaporation
boreal conifer taiga
sandy soils with high moistue delivering capacity
boreal conifer taiga
short frost free growing season
tundra
dominated by sedges cotton grasses, mosses, lichens and dwarf shrubs
tundra