A biome is a large, distinctive, complex community of plants and animals in a region maintained by climate. There are different types of biomes including tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, scrub forest, grasslands, desert and rain forest. Scientists disagree on the exact number of biomes in the world.…
The Tundra is an enormous biome. It covers about one fifth of the earth! That is a good part of the Earth. Greenland is a very good example of the tundra. It is located near the top of the world, near the north pole! The most distinctive characteristic of the tundra, is its permanent layer of permafrost, which means it has a thick layer of frozen soil throughout the year. The latitude of the tundra is 66.5625 degrees north, 0 degrees east. The tundra does not have many types of vegetation. It has shrubs, grass in some parts and a lot of mosses. The tundra is too cold to be able to grow a lot of vegetation. The animals that live in the tundra are the arctic foxes, musk ox, the snowy owl, lemmings, and the polar bear!…
Tundra is the coldest of all the biomes, Tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturia, meaning treeless plain. It is noted for its frost-molded landscapes, extremely low temperatures, little precipitation, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons.A climate is a habitat around the world. The Tundra has snow everywhere and has very short growing seasons which means plants are hard to grow and farmers or whoever is planting crops need to plant early summer or fast enough before summer ends. The Tundra is located all over the world. Located in Alaska, Northern Canada, edges of Greenland, Northern Scandinavia, northern Siberia, and Russia. It is found in Alaska here in the United States. The Tundra is about 3 million square miles long and covers…
TUNDRA The Tundra is the coldest of all the Biomes and being situated in the extreme north of the planet has desert like conditions. It has extremely low temperatures, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons. There is a very low precipitation of less than five inches a year which is coupled with strong, dry winds. There is a very large annual amount of snowfall in the region which surprisingly is advantageous to plant and animal life as the snow provides and insulation layer on the surface of the ground.…
Marine habitats are in grave danger due to humans and Mother Nature. Hurricanes, typhoons, storm surges, and tsunamis are factors in which contributes to the destruction of marine habitats and are caused by Mother Nature. Human’s destruction to these habitats is much worse due to the fact that Mother Nature’s destruction is mostly temporary, while humans leave more of a lasting footprint on the habitats because of our persistence. (National Geographic, n.d.). Marine habitat destruction caused by humans are wetlands being filled for further development, runoff water which carries chemicals, pollutants, and wastes are pumped back into the water without…
As you walk into Marineland, and you see all the posters of the cute sea lions, dolphins, orcas etc. You think to yourself, “Wow, this park is the best! Everything looks so clean, and the animals in the poster look like they’re treated well, right?” Wrong. In reality, most of the animals are kept in dirty, tiny cages. How do these people expect for the animals to somehow survive in these inhumane conditions?…
The natural vegetation regions and soil regions are interconnected in numerous ways. Soil regions as the Tundra soils, or dry climate soils have the potential to affect the type of vegetation that can be grown. Where you would find cold temperatures as the Tundra, you can expect limited vegetation to grasses, mosses, and shrubs. Because the ground has an active layer of permafrost, growing conditions are not suitable for plants and trees. Areas with moist soil as the wet-climate regions, you are expected to find trees and plants resembling the mixed forests, boreal and taiga forest, as well the deciduous forests. The Grasslands are located in the dry climate soils situated in the Prairie Provinces. Due to the dry temperatures there are very insufficient amount of trees, and consisting of large rolling terrains of grasses. To conclude location is a dependent factor on the type of vegetation a region will come to…
1. Yes; each biome has very distinct characteristics pertaining to temperature and precipitation. Temperature, depending heavily on the latitude of the biomes, was typically higher in tropical areas that are clearly closer to the…
The tundra also have a wide variety of plant life and few trees that have a creative way to adapt to their environment. The tundra has many amazing animals that has its own effect. In the tundra some animals are become engendered because the tundra change weather which could affect animals the tundra.…
The Freshwater Biome By Lauren Finnis The freshwater biome is a complex biome that can be found all over the world.…
-A single hectare of rainforest may contain 42,000 different species of insect, up to 807 trees of 313 species and 1,500 species of higher plants.…
· Describe the major terrestrial biomes: Differenciated by temperature and percipitation and by plant growth from that are adapted to these conditions. Three group, those in cold, temperature (grassland/cold), and tropical seasonal.…
The tundra biome is characterized by extremely cold temperatures and treeless, frozen landscapes. There are two types of tundra, the arctic tundra and the alpine tundra .…
Marine biology is more than the scientific study of marine life. Marine biology is the study of marine organisms, their behaviors, and interactions with the environment. Marine biologists study oceanography and the associated fields of chemical, physical, and geological oceanography. Marine biologists are also able to specialize in large aquatic animals, all the way down to microscopic and minuscule organisms. Anything else in between, marine biologists are able to study.…
Common Property Fishery of N identical fishing vessels model: .................................................. 2 1.a) Biological Stock Equilibrium without Harvest .................................................................... 2 1.b) Maximum Sustainable Yield ............................................................................................... 2 1.c) Open Access Equilibrium .................................................................................................... 5 1.d) Optimal Economic Equilibrium .......................................................................................... 6 1.e) Comparison between Maximum Sustainable Equilibrium and both Open Access Equilibrium and Optimal Economic Equilibrium ....................................................................... 8 1.f) Assuming a schooling fishery .............................................................................................. 9 2. Different possible policies ....................................................................................................... 11 2.a) Total Allowable Catches ................................................................................................... 11 2.b) Effort and harvest taxes ................................................................................................... 13 2.c) Individual Transferable Quotas - ITQ’s ............................................................................. 15 3. Recommendation statement for the policy decision ITQ’s ..................................................... 16 Figure 1Growth and Harvest as function of stock size .................................................................. 8 Figure 2Sustainable revenue, total costs and net benefit of fishing effort. ................................. 8 Figure 3 Growth and Harvest as function of stock size for an Open Access equilibrium and a set TAC…