The Nine Major Biomes

I was a bit skeptical when I selected Environmental Science class to satisfy my requirement for a Natural Science class, however, this class has intrigued me and is more interesting than I expected. I have learned a lot about the environment, and I really enjoyed learning about ecosystems and the interaction between the biotic and abiotic of ecosystems. I found the earth's major biomes particularly interesting, and would like to reflect on them.
According to the text book, a biome is a large, relatively distinct terrestrial region with similar climate, soil, plants, and animals, regardless of where it occurs in the world. There are four aquatic biomes and nine major terrestrial biomes. The nine major terrestrial biomes are: tundra, boreal
Precipitation in this biome is very high with between 60 and 200 inches of rainfall a year and also have lots of condensation of water from dense fogs. Winters are in this biome are mostly mild and summers are mostly cool. The dominant plant in this biome is the evergreen tree like the Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock trees. There are also small trees like the dogwood and vine maple, and shrubs and vines. The animals in the temperate rain forest biome are squirrels, wood rats deer, moose and amphibians and reptiles. Humans have edible plants, several kind of berries, and edible mushrooms along with animals for nutrition. Temperate rain forest supply plenty of wood including lumber and
They have from 80 to 250 inches of rain annually. Usually located near the equator, tropical rain forest cover less than 6% of Earth’s land surface, and around 40% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by tropical rain forest. Tropical rain forest have more kinds of trees than any other area in the world, in fact, a person can travel hundreds of meters without seeing two individual trees of the same species. Trees make up more than 70% of this biomes plants, and give tropical rain forest an abundant supply of food species such as palm fruit, banana, and acai. Many species of animal life can be found in tropical rain forest and this biome has the most abundantly species of insects, reptiles, and amphibians on Earth. In additions to butterflies, there are gorgeous birds with beautiful colors including parrots and hummingbirds. Most mammals live in the tree such as monkey and sloths, but there are land mammals are there including elephants. In fact, tropical rain forest have the largest variety of plant and animal life than any other biome in the