The Biomes of our Earth

A biome, also called a major life zone, is one of the natural world's major communities where plants and animals adapt to their specific surroundings. Biomes are classified depending on the predominant vegetation, climate, and marine, desert, grassland, and tundra. each biome consists of many ecosystems.

Biomes are very important. Balanced ecological relationships among biomes help to maintain the environment and life on earth as we know it. For example, an increase in one species of plant, such as an invasive one, can cause ripple effect throughout the whole biome.

Because biomes can be fragile in this way, it is important to protect them from negative human activity, such as deforestation and pollution. We must work to conserve these biomes and the unique organisms that live within them.