LAND ECOSYSTEMS

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Jonas lourdes G. Solina
 DO YOU KNOW WHY THERE ARE
SEVERAL KINDS OF LAND ECOSYSTEMS?
 Major Climate Zones on Earth
Temperate
Temperature is
Tropical Zone Polar Zone
between 60-80 F. It is
the area around the Zone
equator. It is between Its weather is
the Tropic of Cancer It is very cold in moderate. Its neither
and Tropic of here throughout very cold nor very hot
Capricorn. Has very in here. It is the largest
the year since the
hot Temperature among the climate
since the suns heat
suns rays are zones. Some of its
directly falls here. It very slanted areas may experience
is not just about the towards it. rainfall all throughout
desserts here, it is the year.
 TROPICAL LAND
ECOSYSTEMS
Tropical
Desert
Tropical
Grassland/Savanna
Tropical
Rainforest
Tropical
Desert
Hot and dry most of the year.
Have few plants and a hard,
windblown surface strewn with
rocks and some sand.
Deserts have slow plant
growth, low species diversity,
slow nutrient cycling (due to
low bacterial activity in the
soils), and very little water
Tropical Grassland/Savanna

Has scattered clumps of trees such as

acacia which are covered with thorns that
keep some herbivores away.
Has warm temperatures year-round and
alternating dry and wet seasons.
Home to grazing (grass- and herb-eating)
and browsing (twig- and leaf-nibbling)
hoofed animals, including wildebeests,
gazelles, zebras, giraffes, and antelopes and
their predators such as lions, and hyenas.
Tropical Rainforest
Have uniformly warm temperatures, high humidity, and heavy rainfall
almost daily. This fairly constant warm and wet climate is ideal for a wide
variety of plants and animals.
Tropical rain forests are dominated by broadleaf evergreen plants, which
keep most of their leaves year-round. The tops of the trees form a dense
canopy, which blocks most light from reaching the forest floor. For this
reason, there is little vegetation on the forest floor.
Many of the plants that do live at the ground level have enormous leaves
to capture what little sunlight filters through to the dimly lit forest floor.
Some trees are draped with vines (called lianas) that reach for the treetops
to gain access to sunlight.
Cover only about 2% of the earths land surface, but they contain at least
half of the earths known terrestrial plant and animal species. A single tree
in these forests may support several thousand different insect species.
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