What are the different biomes on Earth, like deserts, rainforests, and tundra?
Earth's Patchwork Quilt
What are the different biomes on Earth, like deserts, rainforests, and tundra?
Picture Earth as a patchwork quilt. Not stitched from fabric, but from kinds of places — hot ones, frozen ones, soggy ones, sandy ones. Scientists call these big patches biomes. A biome is just a giant neighborhood where the weather, the plants, and the animals all match. Sort it out, and the whole planet starts to make sense.
Two things mostly decide which biome you get: how warm a place is, and how much rain falls. That's it. Warm and wet makes one kind of world. Cold and dry makes a completely different one. Everything else — the trees, the animals, the colors — follows from those two dials.
