1. Biomes

3. Sunlight strikes the Earth

5. It rains in the tropics --- lots. Brazil

6. Movements of Air masses falling air rising air falling air

7. Great deserts at around 30 degrees North and South Egypt Arizona

8. Movements of Air masses falling air rising air falling air

9. 1000 m up in elevation 6 degrees C drop in temperature Elevation and Temperature

10. Albuquerque same elevation 725 km north Denver Elevation and Temperature

12. Latitude and Temperature

13. Latitude Elevation

14. South Facing slope North Facing Slope

15. Rain Shadow

16. Rain shadow xeric face mesic face Sandia Mountains, northern New Mexico

17. World Biomes

18. Northern New Mexico Semiarid Grassland

19. Pinon-Juniper scrub land

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21. Tropical Rain Forest

23. Forest canopy, Peru Tropical Rain Forest

24. Slash and burn Tropical Rain Forest

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26. Savanna

27. Kenya Savanna

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29. Sonoran Desert, Arizona Desert

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31. Temperate Grasslands

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33. Temperate Deciduous Forest

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35. Taiga – Coniferous Forest

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37. San Juan Wilderness area, Colorado Alpine Tundra Mount Rainier, Washington

38. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR) Arctic Tundra

39. John Torrington, d. 1846 Permafrost

40. World Biomes

41. Distribution of Chaparral Biome

42. Southern California Coastal Chaparral

43. Mediterranean Chaparral Spain

44. Oceans

45. Ocean Currents

46. Upwellings

47. Shallow Oceans

48. Intertidal Zone

49. Estuary

50. Coral Reef

51. Open ocean

52. Deep Ocean

53. Freshwaters

54. Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia Kiamichi River, Oklahoma

55. Oligotrophic

56. Eutrophic