BIOLOGY 2F03 Lecture Notes - Tropical And Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests, Rainforest, Rain Shadow

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Rain forest: life on trees tropical rain forest canopy (high branches) are covered by many plants, including shrubs, mosses, and herbs ferns, bromeliads and orchids are common. Wet and dry seasons; greater variation in temp and water. Which is the favoured biome used by people: dry>moist>very dry>wet>rain. Wet forest catches up, though (red madagascar or rondonia (brazil) on the. Desert: distribution rain shadow himalayas lowest mean precipitation; drought is year-round; lithosoils (rock fragments) Mediterranean small low mean precipitation; drought during the summer. Mountains affect regional climate three main features: Boreal forest (very important in canada, eurasia) tundra. Why chickadees have great memory: depend upon a hierarchy of visual cues to locate hidden seeds. Best learning approach would be to construct a table with biomes being rows and columns organizing their major characteristics as listed above tables for each biome you should know: its location is space and relative to others.

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