Week #2:
- What climates does the earth have?
-How is water distributed? (General and Ecuador)
Week #3:
First answer the questions:
1. Define Forest: Savannah: Grassland: Desert: Taiga: Jungles: Steppe: Tundra (p.44)
1. Define Forest: Savannah: Grassland: Desert: Taiga: Jungles: Steppe: Tundra (p.44)
Forest: are spaces covered by vegetation in a continuous way where trees occupy the greatest area. It’s typical with climates with abundant precipitations, so it’s mainly on the hot and temperate zones.
Savannah: are areas basically made up of grass, which is sometimes very tall, and where there are some shrubs and scattered trees, like acacias and baobabs. It’s typical from tropical climates with a dry season.
Grassland: are zones partly or fully covered with grass. This forms in places with insufficient precipitation of the trees.
Desert: are arid zones, where vegetation is extremely poor and it grows in a scattered way, except in oases. There are only a few plants which have adapted to extreme drought conditions, like cactus, palm and esparto grass.
Taiga: are forests that stretch over the temperate zone, and are made up of conifers.
Jungles: are also called equatorial forests, which have lush vegetation and grow, in the hot zones.
Steppe: is a type of grassland which is characteristic of the hot zones and can be found at the edges of deserts, made up of short grass.
Tundra: is a type of grassland which is characteristic of the cold zones and can be found in the Polar Regions and in high mountain areas, and are characterized by an herbaceous formation where mosses and lichens predominate.
2. How many vegetation zones does Ecuador have?
2. How many vegetation zones does Ecuador have?
3. Where are the biggest deserts on Earth?
The Sahara in Africa, the Arabian desert in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and some others, the Gobi desert in China and Mongolia are some examples but I found out that there are different types of deserts, so I will put a link to get to the list of deserts.
4. What other countries beside Ecuador show more than one vegetation zone?
In fact every one, but since it is according to the graphic of the book some of them are: practically every South American country, except for the Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, also Mexico, Canada, the US, Australia, China, India, Egypt, Madagascar, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and so on.
