Biomes_Of_The_World

Biomes Of The World BIOMES OF THE WORLD RATIONALE FOR HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTS Life on Earth is extremely interesting, as most of us already know from television, if not from our own travels, and it becomes more so when each piece of the complex pattern fits understandably into the whole. One important goal of a biology curriculum should be to educate students about nature, in order to promote empathy and support for the natural world around us, and the interrelationship of all aspects of nature must be an integral part of the message delivered. Biomes (bioclimatic zones) are appropriate divisions by which to organize the natural world, because the organisms that live in each of them possess common constellations of adaptations to them, in particular to the climate of each of the zones and to the characteristic vegetation types that develop in them. The primary elements to be dealt with under each zone were chosen because they are considered the basic elements at all levels, from the entire planet through each of its component physical environments to the species themselves. The climate must be understood as perhaps the most important element in determining what kinds of organisms can live in an area islands, plant, adaptations, plants, very, species, high, diversity, animal, vegetation, often, low, island, groups, even, because, areas, tropical, soils, montane, human, elevations, elevation, birds, arctic, zones, tundra, seeds, mountains, higher, effects, dispersal, climate, animals, zone, temperate