AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tropical rainforests support the greatest diversity of living organisms on Earth. Although they cover less than 2 percent of Earth’s surface, rainforests house more than 50 percent of all plants and animals found on land.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tropical forests have the highest biodiversity and primary productivity of any of the terrestrial biomes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Taiga-Cold in the winter and warm in the summer, the taiga is the world’s largest land biome.

Detailed explanation-4: -Terrestrial biomes are the ecosystems found in a similar climatic pattern in a region that need not be located in proximity but span across the earth. An example of a terrestrial ecosystem is tropical forests. The various types of biome in the terrestrial terrain are forests, grasslands, deserts, and tundra.

Detailed explanation-5: -Because each biome is defined by climate, the same biome can occur in geographically distinct areas with similar climates (Figures 1 and 2). Tropical rainforests are found in equatorial regions (Figure 1) are the most biodiverse terrestrial biome.