Did you know that it actually snows in some deserts or that rainforest plants are used to fight cancer? Discover 10 interesting facts about land biomes.
Biome, Key Characteristics, Typical Locations ; Tropical Rainforest, High biodiversity, dense canopy, high precipitation, warm temperatures, Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, Southeast Asia ; Desert, Low precipitation, extreme temperature variations, sparse vegetation, Sahara, Arabian, Mojave, Gobi ; Savanna, Grasslands with scattered trees, seasonal rainfall, diverse herbivores, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, South America
The marine/saltwater biome dominates the surface of the Earth with oceans, coral reefs and estuaries covering about three-quarters of the Earth’s surface area. The world’s oceans...
Mauna Kea, which is located in the Hawaii Islands, is the tallest mountain in the world – technically speaking. Although its visible top is only 4,205 feet above sea level, it measures over 32,000 feet from the seafloor. By contrast, Mount Everest, the tallest mountain above sea level, measures 29,028 feet high). The North American continent has 23 countries, including Canada – the largest by size, Mexico, the Caribbean Islands and other Central American locations, in addition tothe United S...
Fun Facts for Kids When you think of the desert you likely think about sand dunes, hot weather and barren space. You may be half right. The desert biomes around the world may be seemingly...
The carbonaceous winners are plants, which make up about 80 percent of all biomass on Earth. Bacteria comes in second at 13 percent and fungus is third at just 2 percent. Of the 550 gigatons of biomass carbon on Earth, animals make up about 2 gigatons, with insects comprising half of that and fish taking up another 0.7 gigatons. Everything else, including mammals, birds, nematodes and mollusks are roughly 0.3 gigatons, with humans weighing in at 0.06 gigatons. The research appears in The Proceed...
Minecraft is home to many different biomes, with each one of them having its own unique feel and different qualities. The rare badlands area can be easily identified by red sands, high mesas, and plateaus. It is modeled after the deserts in the western United States, and it's easy to see how when looking at this hot and dry biome. But the badlands offers players much more than what meets the eye under its red exterior. Here are the top five most interesting facts about the badlands in Minecraft ...
Let me reword that abstract a little bit: Animals that co-evolved with primitive humans had some 100s of thousands of years to adapt to our developing toolkit for hunting said animals. Most of that adaption involved becoming afraid of people. As modern humans migrated out of Africa with their increasingly refined hunting tool kit they encountered numerous animals that had the misfortune of not having previously encountered and adapted to such humans and more or less quickly got removed from the ...
Overview Minecraft Biomes: way in which the appearance of the world is generated · huge variety · some inherit villages or certain structures · in all dimensions · expandable with mods
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