Biome

A Biome is not a geographic place so much as it is a group of distinctive plants and animals whose extent is governed by geography and climate. The Earth's biomes comprise the biosphere and are described by the study of Ecology.

Terrestial Biomes

• chaparral
• coniferous forest
  • temperate coniferous forest
  • northern coniferous forest
    • boreal forest
    • taiga
• deciduous forest
• desert
• grassland?
• polar regions
• savanna
• tropical rain forest
• [tropical seasonal forest]?
• tundra

Aquatic Biomes

• continental shelf
• littoral
• riparian
• pond
• lake
• coral reef
• pack ice

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