Chapter 7: Climate and Biodiversity
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Section 1: What Factors Influence Climate?
Concept 7-1: Key factors that influence and area's climate are incoming solar energy, the earth's rotation, global patterns of air and water movement, gases in the atmosphere, and the earth's surface features. Section 2: How Does Climate Affect the Nature and Location of Biomes?
Concept 7-2: Differences in long-term average annual precipitation and temperature lead to the formation of tropical, temperate, and cold deserts, grasslands, and forests, and largely determine their locations. |
Section 3: How Have Human Activities Affected the World's Terrestrial Ecosystems?
Concept 7-3: Human activities are disrupting ecosystem and economic services provided by many of the earth's deserts, grasslands, forests, and mountains. |
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