GEO 121 1st Edition Lecture 30 Outline of Last Lecture II Climate Types a Tropical b Arid c Humid Mesothermal d Humid Microthermal e Polar f Highlands Outline of Current Lecture III Vegetation a Forest i Evergreen ii Deciduous b Savannah c Grassland d Desert e Tundra f Highlands Current Lecture Vegetation 1 Forest a Evergreen Forest i A plant usually a tree or a shrub that DOES NOT drop its leaves seasonally ii Broad leaf 1 Australia ii Needle leaf 1 Tundra 2 Conifers b Deciduous Forest i Middle Latitude ii A plant usually a tree or a shrub that drops its leaves seasonally iii Broad leaf 1 wide flat leaves There are veins that extend through the leaves Broad leaf trees are generally deciduous ex oak elm birch and maple 2 Eastern North America ii Needle leaf 1 Conifers 2 Savannah These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute a Tropical vegetation consisting of coarse grasses often associated with scattered low growing trees or patches of bare ground b Aw c Oxisols 2 Grassland a Mollisols b Steppe Russian Origin i Russia BSk b Pampa i South America BSh b Veldt i Africa BSh b Prairie i United States BSk 2 Desert a The amount of precipitation is less than half of the potential ET BWh BWk hot and cold 2 Tundra a High latitude or high altitude environments or climate regions that are not able to support the growth of trees because the growing season is too cold and too short ET b Gelisols
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