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A biome is a specific environment that's home to living things suited for that place and climate. A desert biome is great for a lizard, but a koala bear needs the leafy greens of a forest biome.

A plant or animal makes its home in a specific biome, which is pronounced "BI-ohm." While a biome can range from an arctic tundra to a tropical rain forest, living things need to stay in the biome that's best suited to keeping them alive and growing. Scientists in the field of ecology, the study of the environment connections between living things, work to understand the effects of climate change and population growth on biomes.

DEFINITIONS OF: biome

n a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate

Examples:: show 38 examples...; hide 38 examples...; Great Arabian Desert
a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia; Arabian Desert
a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea; Atacama Desert
a desert in northern Chile rich in nitrate and copper deposits; Great Australian Desert
general name given to all desert areas in Australia; Black Rock Desert
a desert in northwestern Nevada; Chihuahuan Desert
a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico; Colorado Desert
an arid region of southeastern California; Great Salt Desert
a salt desert in north central Iran; Dasht-e-Lut
a desert in eastern Iran; Death Valley
a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America; Gibson Desert
a desert area in western Australia; Gila Desert
a desert area in southern Arizona; Gobi Desert
a desert in central China; Great Sandy Desert
a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert; Great Victoria Desert
a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain; Kalahari Desert
a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana; Turkestan Desert
a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea; Kizil Kum
a desert in Uzbekistan to the southeast of the Aral Sea; Libyan Desert
the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan; Mohave Desert
a desert area in southern California and western Arizona; Namib Desert
a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean; An Nafud
a desert in northern Saudi Arabia that is noted for its red sand and violent winds; Negev Desert
a desert in southern Israel; Nubian Desert
an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea; Painted Desert
a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona; Patagonian Desert
a semiarid region in southern South America; Great Sandy Desert
a desert in southern Saudi Arabia; Sahara Desert
the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa; Simpson Desert
a desert region of central Australia; Sinai Desert
a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt; Sonoran Desert
a desert in southwestern Arizona; Syrian Desert
a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia; Taklamakan Desert
a desert in western China; Great Indian Desert
a desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan; Black Forest
a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany; Great Plains of North America
a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans; Sherwood Forest
an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band; Wilderness
a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

Types:: show 13 types...; hide 13 types...; desert
arid land with little or no vegetation; grassland
land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life; forest, timber, timberland, woodland
land that is covered with trees and shrubs; bent
an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges; hayfield, meadow
a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay; grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pastureland
a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock; prairie
a treeless grassy plain; savanna, savannah
a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions; veld, veldt
elevated open grassland in southern Africa; greenwood
woodlands in full leaf; riparian forest
woodlands along the banks of stream or river; silva, sylva
the forest trees growing in a country or region; tree farm
a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use

Type of:: biotic community, community
(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

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