Biomes

Sunlight strikes the Earth

It rains in the tropics --- lots.

Brazil

Movements of Air masses

falling air

rising air

rising air

falling air

Great deserts at around 30 degrees North and South

Egypt

Arizona

Movements of Air masses

falling air

rising air

rising air

falling air

1000 m up in elevation

6 degrees C drop in temperature

Elevation and Temperature

Albuquerquesame

elevation

725 km north

Denver

Elevation and Temperature

Elevation and Temperature

Latitude and Temperature

Latitude

Elevation

South Facing slope

North Facing Slope

Rain Shadow

Rain shadow

xeric face

mesic face

Sandia Mountains, northern New Mexico

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Northern New Mexico

Semiarid Grassland

Pinon-Juniper scrub land

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Tropical Rain Forest

Tropical Rain Forest

Forest canopy, Peru

Tropical Rain Forest

Slash and burn

Tropical Rain Forest

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Savanna

Kenya

Savanna

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Sonoran Desert, Arizona

Desert

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Temperate Grasslands

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Temperate Deciduous Forest

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Taiga – Coniferous Forest

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San Juan Wilderness area, Colorado

Alpine Tundra

Mount Rainier, Washington

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR)

Arctic Tundra

John Torrington, d. 1846

Permafrost

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Distribution of Chaparral Biome

Southern California Coastal Chaparral

Mediterranean Chaparral

Spain

Oceans

Ocean Currents

Upwellings

Shallow Oceans

Intertidal Zone

Estuary

Coral Reef

Open ocean

Deep Ocean

Freshwaters

Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia

Kiamichi River, Oklahoma

Oligotrophic

Eutrophic