Biology › Section R · The biosphere, populations, and communities › Topic R.2
Terrestrial and aquatic biomes
Fly over Earth and the same few landscapes repeat: rainforest, grassland, desert, conifer forest, tundra, reef. These are biomes, and two numbers, temperature and rainfall, go a long way towards predicting which one you will find on land.
In this topic
- What makes a biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Savanna and subtropical desert
- Chaparral, grassland and deciduous forest
- Boreal forest and tundra
- Worked example: naming a biome from climate data
- Zones of the ocean
- Coral reefs and estuaries
- Lakes, rivers and wetlands
- Worked example: how fertiliser empties a lake of oxygen
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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