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Ecosystems: Land Biomes Mo1-L2a: What are Land Biomes?
Lesson 2

Desert
a biome that receives very little rain.
In this topic, you will learn the following
lessons:

Mo.1–L2a: What are Land Biomes?
Mo.1–L2b: What are Temperate Deciduous and
Temperate Rain Forest?

Mo1-L2a What are Land Biomes?
Grassland
KEY CONCEPTS: a biome where grasses are the dominant plants.
1. In what ways do humans affect temperate rain
forests?

Vocabulary A-Z

Let us learn some vocabulary

Biome
a geographic area on earth that contains ecosystems
with similar biotic and abiotic features. Temperate
the term describing any region of Earth between the
tropics and the polar circles.

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Land Ecosystems and Biomes

Scientists classify similar ecosystems in large
geographic areas as biomes.

A biome is a geographic area on Earth that contains
ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features.

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