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A large region characterized by climate, animals and plants is called what?
Biome
Biomes are named its what?
Plants
This refers to weather conditions, such as temperature, precipitation, humidity and winds in an area over a period of time
Climate
What two factors are most important in determining biomes climate?
temperature and precipitation
More vegetation will survive in an area with more what?
precipitation
This is the distance north or south from the equator, measured in degrees.
latitude
This is the height of an object above sea level
altitude
Climate gets ________ as the latitude and altitude increase
colder
Humidity makes the air feel what?
wet and heavy
These are located in a belt around the Earth near the equator
tropical rain forests
What do tropical rain forests do?
help regulate world climate
A tropical rain forest has more species of ___________ than any other biome
plants
A tropical rain forest is always what?
humid and warm
Put the four layers of the rain forest in order from highest to lowest
emergent layer, upper canopy, lower canopy, understory
These grow off tall trees to support it
epiphytes
Tropical rain forests used to cover 20% of the Earth's surface, now they cover what percent?
7%
