McKnight's Physical Geography: Landscape Appreciation (Custom Package)
McKnight's Physical Geography: Landscape Appreciation (Custom Package)
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781269598781
Author: Central Texas
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 1LC
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To explain: The concept of a biome.

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A biome is a substantial, recognizable collection of animals and plants in utilitarian relations with its surroundings. A biome is typically named based on its leading vegetation, which regularly constitutes the heft of the biomass in the biome, and being the most evident and obvious visible part of the background.

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A biome refers to a group of animals and plants possessing similar character for the surrounding they live in. They can be originating over a variety of continents. Biomes are considered as dissimilar biological groups that have originated in response of a mutual physical atmosphere.

A biome can exist over larger regions but a micro-biome is a combination of organisms that exist together in a characterized space on a considerably littler range. For instance, the micro-biome of human is the accumulation of microscopic organisms, infections, and different microorganisms that are available in or on a body of human.

Few examples of biomes are tundra, taiga, desert, grassland and etcetera.

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