Cw5-8429
From Environmental Technology
Looking at Maps -- Due Sunday March 5, 5pm
Using the online map source from National Geographic, found at MapMachine.
Answer the following questions about major ecosystems, soils, climates, and populations.
There are three zoom modes to use to answer these questions; world-view, US-view, and Southern Illinois view. You may copy this page's source to start your work if you like.
Click "Major Habitat types"
====1) Do these major ecosystems of the world match what you have already learned so far about biomes?====To an extent it matches what I've learned, however the map is far more detailed. It breaks the biomes down into smaller categories; we just covered major biomes.
====2) What does National Geographic call these regions? What region(s) are in Southern Illinois?====Mangroves, flooded grasslands, boreal forests, taiga, tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas and shrublands, temperate grassland savanna and shrubland Med. scrub tropical and subtropical forests, temperate coniferious forest desert and xeric shrubland, tropic and subtropic coniferious forests, montane grassland, tundra, tropic and subtropic moist
Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrubland; Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests.
