Biome

There isn’t a more exceptional developed dry season area than the tropical dry forest. This is the world’s most endangered biome. It is located in the southern part of Mexico, Southeastern Africa, the Lesser Sundas, Central India, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Eastern Bolivia, and Central Brazil. The tropical dry forest has its ups and downs. The tropical dry forest temperatures’ rise each year and get hundreds of centimeters of rain a year which makes it a perfect place for soil and vegetation.…

The Chesapeake Bay is a marine aquatic life zone biome. This estuary is a mixture of salt water and fresh water. This is a sub biome of the Aquatic. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and third largest in the world. An estuary is a body of water where the salt water of the ocean mixes with the fresh water of rivers and streams. The Bay is 200 miles long and flows through the states of Virginia and Maryland. More than 150 rivers, creeks, and streams flow into the…

boating, tennis courts, a playground and a Children’s garden. This ecosystem has beautiful scenery for everyone to enjoy. Towards the end of the semester, we were learning about different types of biomes. I would categorize Verona Park as a temperate deciduous forest. I noticed a difference in the biome from October 26 to now. During the winter months, the climate is relatively cold and may contain ice and snow. Around October 26, the leaves were changing their color and beginning to fall.…

circle. In the tundra biome, there are many oil rigs and oil mines and they disrupt nature. The tundra biome is the coldest biome and covers about 20% of the earth. It is also the driest place on earth and only gets an average of ten inches of rain per year. In the summer time, it does not get dark, it is daylight 24 hours a day. Even though Antarctica is not in the Arctic Circle it is still considered to be part of the tundra biome since the temperature is so severe. The tundra biome does not…

Lombard (90) notes that biotechnology is the use of organisms and their products for commercials purposes. It is the basic fundamental principle of genetic engineering as it entails the genes transfer of various methods in production of recombinant proteins, transgenic plants and animals for commercial applications. In nutshell, genetic engineering is the driving force of biotechnology industry in the world .In this filed, there are two areas of interest, that is production of beneficial enzymes…

The definition of prairies is “prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and scrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type. “The prairie animals are the American toad, badger, black-footed ferret, bison, black-tailed jack rabbit, bumble bee, burrowing owl, California condor, carrion beetle, common snipe, coyotes, deer,…

When you think of a Temperate biome what do you think? A temperate biome is a woodland which contains a large variety of trees and plants but is not as dense as a tropical rain forest. The climate of a temperate forest is mainly humid and receives heavy rainfall year round. The temperate forest is a combination of abiotic and biotic . This type of forest has lakes and streams which make part of the ecosystem,a biological community, abiotic or non-living natural made substances . However, most…

Welcome to the most colossal biome on Earth, the marine! This ginormous place on Earth is home to many plants and animals within its many oceans and three different levels. Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Southern, and Indian are the five main oceans on this planet. Each ocean is separated into three levels, known as euphotic, disphotic, and aphotic. The euphotic zone is also known as the sunlight zone, this is the top layer of the ocean and it receives almost all of the sun's rays. The next section…

Biomes Survival Story We were flying in the government's new 737 million dollar B-2 Spirit jet. My sergeant gave me and my co-pilot orders to go to the coordinates 6.1° S 106.9° E, which is Jakarta, Indonesia. Our orders were to observe the areas that have military-like forces in the tropical rainforest. As we were making our last pass for reconnaissance over the tropical rainforest, there was a huge thunderstorm. A few minutes after the storm started the B-2 jet was struck by lightning,…

points that could be related back to the discussion of biodiversity and biomes in the C&C book. For starters, learning how various biomes were different and how they have changed over the course of the Earth’s history was fascinating. To learn how the Earth moved from a much more heated planet, enough that it was said that the temperature was enough to bake bread is eye opening. However just like with many aspects of life, the biomes of Earth were ever changing and proved that they can be very…