Main
terrestrial biomes
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In the cooperation
the individuals of two species
are associate receiving some
type of benefit that could not
separately be reached.
The biosphere
The biosphere
is the part of the Earth where
the alive beings are developed.
It covers
from 8 or 10 km on the level
of the sea to few meters of
depth in the ground, where the
roots of the plants arrive to
absorb minerals. It also includes
waters of the oceans from its
surface to the deepest regions.
In all its extension it measures
around 20 km.
The aquatic
environment, where the life
was originated, are two: the
see, abundant in salts, and
the one of fresh water, with
few salts.
Two characteristics
of them are the density of the
water, that is an appropriate
support for the organisms and
simultaneously an obstacle for
its movements, and the depth.
This last one, related to the
amount of light that breaks
through from the surface, determines
the existence or non-existence
of plants.
Remarkable
differences appear between the
terrestrial environment and
the aquatic one. The muscular
force to move by the ground,
climbing, or walking, must be
greater than the one than it
is needed in the water. Before
it, most of the animals species
that occupied the ground had
to develop extremities apt for
the locomotion. They do not
lack, nevertheless, crawl forms,
that in general are limited
to the surface of the ground
and its interior.
The aerial
environment are colonized so
much by plants as by animals.
The vegetables resort to the
air for the dissemination of
the seeds o, which allows them
to extend the area of dispersion
of the species. The animals
better adapted to that environment
have developed two characteristics:
light corporal structures and
organs adapted for the movement
in the heights, generally wings
or membranes.
Biomes
All ecological
space that shares the same species,
climate, animals, and plants
is a biome. The surface of the
planet is divided in biomes,
defined by the characteristics
of humidity, temperature and
annual precipitations. Every
biome has a certain vegetation
and its limits is demarcated
by diverse factors, among them,
the availability or not of water,
the greater or smaller amount
of light and the amplitude of
temperatures.
According
to the most habitual subdivision,
main biomes is: the jungle,
the forest, the savannah, the
prairie, the steppe, the tundra,
coniferous forest (taiga). and
the desert.
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