Chapter 27 Key Terms
- p. 586: biomes
- p. 587: doldrums, polar front, trade winds, prevailing westerlies
- p. 588: windward, leeward, rain shadow effect
- p. 589: mediterranean climate, monsoon, gyrals, El Ni
- p. 590: neritic zone, surface zone, abyssal zone, intertidal (littoral)
- region
- p. 591: El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- p. 593: dinoflagellates, plankton, nekton, bioluminescent
- p. 594: limnetic zone, profundal zone, thermal stratification, epilimnion, thermocline, fall overturn, beardworms
- p. 597: spring overturn, eutrophic lakes, oligotrophic lakes
- p. 599: tropical rain forests
- p. 600: savannas
- p. 601: desert
- p. 602: temperate grasslands, prairies, tall-grass prairie, glades, short-grass prairie
- p. 603: temperate deciduous forest
- p. 604: taiga
- p. 605: tundra, permafrost
- p. 606: chaparral, polar ice, mountain zone (alpine)
- p. 607: temperate evergreen forests, moist evergreen forests, tropical monsoon forests, semidesert (tropical dry or thornwood forests)
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