What is a biome?
The biome gets its name from the largest of its five regions, made up of land surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The other regions – portions of California / Baja California, South Africa, Australia, and Chile – are the four other places on earth that have a similar climate and vegetation. The unique soils, topography, climate, and geography of the Mediterranean biome have yielded a vast diversity of life, including tens of thousands of plants and animals that are found nowhere else, and are specifically adapted to hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.
Each biome can be described as an area on our earth that shares similar climate, animals, and plants. There are actually about 150 different classified biomes today! The main ones are Marine, Tundra, Desert, Savannah, Grassland, Tropical Rain Forest, Deciduous Forest, and Coniferous Forest (Taiga). Many of these biomes are described in depth on the KDE Biome pages.
