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    The document summarizes and compares the key characteristics of natural landscapes in tropical and temperate zones. In the tropics, equatorial jungles have warm and rainy climates all year with very high biodiversity, while tropical forests have distinct rainy and dry seasons. Vegetation in equatorial jungles grows high in the canopy due to abundant sunlight, whereas tropical forests have more undergrowth. Both regions support diverse fauna. Temperate zones have more seasonal variation, with landscapes like Mediterranean scrubs/forests, meadows/steppes, deciduous forests, and taiga/conifer forests located at lower latitudes compared to tropical zones.

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    The document summarizes and compares the key characteristics of natural landscapes in tropical and temperate zones. In the tropics, equatorial jungles have warm and rainy climates all year with very high biodiversity, while tropical forests have distinct rainy and dry seasons. Vegetation in equatorial jungles grows high in the canopy due to abundant sunlight, whereas tropical forests have more undergrowth. Both regions support diverse fauna. Temperate zones have more seasonal variation, with landscapes like Mediterranean scrubs/forests, meadows/steppes, deciduous forests, and taiga/conifer forests located at lower latitudes compared to tropical zones.

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    The document summarizes and compares the key characteristics of natural landscapes in tropical and temperate zones. In the tropics, equatorial jungles have warm and rainy climates all year with very high biodiversity, while tropical forests have distinct rainy and dry seasons. Vegetation in equatorial jungles grows high in the canopy due to abundant sunlight, whereas tropical forests have more undergrowth. Both regions support diverse fauna. Temperate zones have more seasonal variation, with landscapes like Mediterranean scrubs/forests, meadows/steppes, deciduous forests, and taiga/conifer forests located at lower latitudes compared to tropical zones.

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    NATURAL LANDSCAPES IN TROPICAL ZONE

    climates Equatorial humid tropical


    *suth Aemrica,Africa .SE Asia *
    *Warm and rainy all year, *precipitation decrease
    * No annual thermal amplitude *increase annual thermal amplitude
    *most biodiv. For high temp y high pre
    A.A.TEMP *about 25 ºC *about 20 ºC . Increase A thermal Am
    PRECIPITAT *Abundant all year. Over 1500. no dry *rainy season w/torrential- Dry seas
    SOIL and *Very little organic matter/roots above *vegetation abundant not as dense
    *Vegetation Exhuberant- not Ligh floor
    ***Upper level- need ligh- over 100m *The light reachs the forest floor so
    ***Middle try cath E.S. with huge leav
    VEGETATION ***Lower . Ferns and mimosa-no light *Underwood formed by shurbs-
    FAUNA *Lives in trees/more food *trop forest is the home to diverse fau
    *birds,mammals,reptils,amphib *Large variety of inset, birds, reptils,
    *invertebrates worm ,arachnides most amph and mammals.felines-primates

    FROM most precipitation TO


    LANDSCAPES Equatorial Jungle Tropical forest

    NATURAL LANDSCAPES IN TEMPERATE ZONES

    LOWER LATITUDE less latitude


    Mediterranean SCRUBS and forest
    Meadows and Steppes

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    dry tropical desert
    *Located between the tropical forest and *Located in the Tropics
    the deserts of Africa,Asia and * never ther is more than 250 mm of rainfall/year
    Soth América *The largest Thremal temperatura difference is
    *Rain less abundant than others between day and nigh above 30ºC
    *High tem above 18ªC-difere wint/summe *High temperature all year around- nigh/day
    *Rain in wet season- rest year drought less than 250 mm of rain fall by year
    *Some vegetation dries during dry season
    *but reborn in rainy season. *Tall grass,
    Shrubs and disperse trees with treetops
    (copa) are characteristics.
    * Very varied. The fight for survive is hard *Fauna is also scarce. Insects, reptiles and small
    in dought season * In the A. Savannah
    there ara the big five game animals mammals

    less precipitation
    Savannah Desert

    less latitude
    Deciduos forests Taiga or conifer forest

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