ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Question
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Tundra
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Tropical Rainforest
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Desert
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Taiga
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Detailed explanation-1: -Savanna. Savanna is grassland with scattered individual trees. Savannas of one sort or another cover almost half the surface of Africa (about five million square miles, generally central Africa) and large areas of Australia, South America, and India.
Detailed explanation-2: -The tundra is what you would be standing on if it was bitterly cold, dry, with a few short plants scattered around.
Detailed explanation-3: -The taiga is a forest of the cold, subarctic region. The subarctic is an area of the Northern Hemisphere that lies just south of the Arctic Circle. The taiga lies between the tundra to the north and temperate forests to the south. Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia have taigas.
Detailed explanation-4: -Very cold, often dry climate, but whith permanently frozen ground creating saturated soils during summer months. Freeze-thaw cycles fell trees. Arctic Tundra is circumpolar (scanty Antarctic).