8th Geography ch 6
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- Contains only pine trees
- Boreal
- The distinct layers that form the soil
- soil horizons
- Forests of short trees and shrubs
- Mediterranean scrub forest
- A grassland with scattered trees, low rainfall
- Savanna
- Has the most fires
- Mediterranean scrub forest
- Areas with no plant life
- barren regions
- Plants have tiny leaves with waxy surfaces
- Desert
- Plants either have big roots to get water deep in the soil or store water
- Desert
- Trees in the middle-latitude climates that remain green year round
- coniferous
- A series of stages in which energy is passed among living things
- food chain
- Forests of needle-bearing trees found in cold climates
- boreal
- Located between a tropical rain forest and a desert
- Savanna
- A hot, wet area close to the equator in which plants grow year round
- Tropical rain forest
- Grasslands of the middle latitudes with adequate rainfall; productive when wild grasses are removed
- Prairie
- Contains a prairie and a steppe
- grassland
- A biome too cold to support much growth
- Tundra
- Has a distinct wet and dry season
- Savanna
- Trees that lose their leaves in the winter
- deciduous
- Determined by the types of trees growing in the area
- Forest
- Once contained buffalo, but now have cattle and wheat
- Grassland
- Plant and animal communities that cover a large area of the earth's surface
- biomes
- Decayed plant matter
- humus
- Any tree covered area
- forest
- A stable plant community; last stage of succession
- climax community
- Plant roots are prevented from penetrating deep into the soil because of permafrost
- Tundra
- Supports large numbers of grazing animals and predators
- Savanna
- Located between a desert and a temperate forest
- Grassland
- The washing of nutrients from the top layer of soil
- leaching
- A biome in which plants survive by using little water or storing water
- Desert
- A group of plants that lives and grows together
- plant community
- Most have been lost to farming and growth of cities
- Mediterranean scrub forest
- Located near the equator and contains much humus
- Tropical rain forest
- Has short trees with leathery leaves
- Mediterranean scrub forest
- Animals from other regions migrate here to feed on the fresh plant growth and the millions of insects
- Tundra
- Not found anywhere in the southern hemisphere
- Boreal forest
- Has deciduous and coniferous trees
- Temperate forest
- All living things and the areas they inhabit on earth
- biosphere
- The process by which one group of plants replaces another group
- plant succession
- The soil of this forest is the most acidic
- Boreal forest