wildlife and ecology
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- Created on: 31-01-19 14:04
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- Wildlife and Ecology Conservation.
- Global Biomes
- Temperate grassland
- Found in every continent but Antartica
- Usually found in Africa, South America, North America, Hungary and Russia
- Temperate Forest
- Leaf shedding trees
- Seasons
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
- United States, Canada, Europe, China, Japan.
- Ice
- The polar ice biome consists of two biomes.
- North Pole
- Water freezing creates Pack ice.
- South Pole
- Water freezing creates Ice sheets.
- North Pole
- High altitude and low altitude where the energy from the sun is weak enough for the water to freeze.
- The polar ice biome consists of two biomes.
- Mountains
- Andes, Alps and Rocky Mountains
- lies between an altitude of about 3,000 meters, and the place where the snow line of a mountain begins.
- Tropical Rainforest
- Hot, moist biome found near Earth's equator.
- The largest tropical rainforests are in South America, Africa and South east Asia.
- Tropical seasonal forest
- also known as moist deciduous, semi-evergreen seasonal, tropical mixed or monsoon forests
- contain a range of tree species: only some of which drop some or all of their leaves during the dry season.
- Hot and wet in the summer
- Cooler and dry in the winter.
- Savanna
- Mixed woodland and grassland ecosystem.
- Widely spaced trees.
- Open canopy.
- Allows light to reach the ground to support the herbaceous layer that consists mostly of grass.
- Desert
- ecosystem that forms due to the low level of rainfall it receives each year.
- Covers about 20% of the Earth.
- There are four types of desert:hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold.
- Temperate grassland
- Levels of Organisation
- Individual (1)
- Population (2)
- Community (3)
- Ecosystem (4)
- Biome (5)
- Biosphere (6)
- Shifting Populations
- Immigration
- Emigration
- Global Biomes
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