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Biomes
A geographic area characterized by its climate, plant life and ecological community.
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What are the similarities and differences between the taiga and deciduous forest?
A tiaga is mostly cold and a tropical rain forest is warm and wet For a climate TRUE
What is the soil type in the northwestern coniferous forest?
rocky, acidic soil or this is what i could find please change this answer if you find a better answer
Does a cheetah live in trees or on the ground?
Cheetah's are predominantly found in the jungles of Africa and India. The Asiatic cheetah can be found in India, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan etc. The African cheetah is found in countries like Kenya, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe etc. numbers wise, the African species is more populous than its Indian cousin.
Why is there little vegetation on the ground level of the coniferous forest?
There is little vegetation because only deciduous trees lose their leaves. Leaves decompose and bring nitrogen compounds into the soil and vegetation appears. Coniferous trees do NOT lose their leaves. Therefore if you were to compare the two, vegetation would happen in the deciduous forest.
What is the difference between the Arctic and the North Pole?
The Arctic Circle is a line of latitude roughly 66 and 1/2 degrees north of the Equator. The North Pole is the center of that circle.
What is a coniferous forest like in general?
120 to -15
true but it has 4 very distict seasons, unlike desert whitch only has two. you can trust me because I just learned about this in class, accualy I am supposed to be taking notes right nowWhat is the biome of blue springs city Missouri?
Deciduous Forest, turning into a grassland slowly from tree chopping.
Why would the Sahara have a brownish color when seen in space?
Because its mostly rock (80%) and sand (20%) with very little green vegetation.
What is the annual rainfall of a tropical rainforest?
I would say it is round about 2104mm of annual rainfall(2 meters)
the tropical rain forest gets 90 percent of rain fall
What is the human population of the Coniferous Forest?
Approximately 15 percent of the Earth's surface is coniferous forest. They are typically in mountainous regions. They are home to eagles, snakes, moose, bear, sheep, squirrels, owls and loons.
Parts of it are tundra, but most of it is not.
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Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet, and the soil under the ice is not available for anything tundra-like, to grow.
Tundra is defined by the occurrence of "vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs" -- and there is no such area on Antarctica. The Antarctic peninsula is home to two forms of grass that grow on the exposed western side of a few areas. The Sub-Antarctic Islands may hold a few areas of tunda-like soil, but there is no tundra on the Antarctic continent.
What is the biome in anchorage Alaska?
Coniferous forest in the majority of the state, further to the north it possesses a tundra biome. More precisely, you could say that it is sub-arctic coniferous forest.
How is a soil profile in a rain forest defferent from one in a desret?
The soil in a rain forest has more moisture than that in a desert.
What body of water is the Great Barrier Reef found in?
The Great Barrier Reef is in the Coral Sea, and lies parallel to the coastline of Queensland, Australia. Therefore, the Queensland coast borders the Great Barrier Reef.
Do some rainforests have mountains?
Because there often on the edge of a fault line on a tectonic plate
Do carrots grow in the rainforest?
I asked Siri "Alexa" and she said "That's like comparing apples and.. not apples." And that's why i'm here to find out if Siri is right which she is not cuz the amazon rainforest has apple trees. I am taking this way too seriusly.
Is the Amazon basin soil fertile?
Soil in the tropical rainforest's is very nutrient poor. The topsoil is only one to two inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) deep. The only reason plant life is so lush is because the plants store the nutrients in themselves rather than getting them from the soil. When plants decay, other growing plants tap the nutrients from the dead matter and reuse nutrients left over from that plant. This is why farmers can only use the rainforest's soil for one or two years after they clear cut it, before all nutrients are stripped from the soil. The reason the soil so infertile is because it is more than 100 million years old, and has taken a beating from the elements. After time, rain washes minerals out of the soil, leaving it more acidic and nutrient poor. Soil exposed to the heat and condensed sunlight turns it into red clay. Other soils just cannot deal with minerals, and turn it into compounds useless to plants. There are some fertile patches of soil in the rainforest's, but they are scattered throughout the thick vegetation.
