1. What is a Biome?
Chapter 6.1
Environmental

2. Objectives Describe why vegetation is used to name a biome
Explain how temperature and precipitation determine which plants grow in an area
Explain how latitude and altitude affect which plants grow in an area

3. What is a Biome?
Biome: large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain range of plants and animal communities

4. Biomes and Vegetation Biomes are described by vegetation because:
They are the most noticeable characters of that region
Plants can determine other organisms that can live there

5. Biomes and Vegetation
Plants in a biome have particular adaptations that enable them to survive there
Size
Shape
Colour

6. Biomes and Climate
Climate: the weather conditions such as temperature, precipitation, humidity, winds, in an area over a long period of time

7. Biomes and Climate
Most organisms adapted to live in a certain range of temperature
Determines range of growing season for plants
Precipitation:
Limits the organisms
Need varying degrees of water

8. Biomes and Climate
The higher the temperature and precipitation, the taller and denser the vegetation is

9. Latitude and altitude Latitude: distance north or south of the equator
Measured in degrees
Altitude: height of an object above sea level
Climate varies with latitude and altitude
Increase both = climate gets older
As get farther from equator get colder, less vegetation

10. Latitude and altitude

11. Describe these biomes