Tag: natural regions of the world

Eskimos are the people living in the frigid zone. It comprising of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. They generally made their small hut like house by snow, known as igloo. Hunting of marine animals and fishes are their main occupation . They use dog sledge for transportation. Dog is the only domesticate animal of Eskimos.

Aurora australis is the southern hemisphere counterpart to the aurora borealis. In the sky, an aurora australis takes the shape of a curtain of light that is most often green, sometimes red, and occasionally other colors too.

When the northern frigid zone receives continuous light, the southern frigid zone has continuous darkness.

1. Arctic tern: it has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. The species is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as it migrates along a convoluted route from its northern breeding grounds to the Antarctic coast for the southern summer and back again about six months later.
   
2. Snowy owls are native to Arctic regions in North America and Eurasia.

Rainfall may range from 15 to 30 cm in a year. Only during the short summer season, some very lowly plants may grow only in the areas away from the polar ice caps. These regions are known for blizzards and occupy areas of the Arctic margins of North America and Eurasia and the Antarctic continent.

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate.

Equatorial type of climate, also known as tropi­cal rainforest wet climate , is located up to 5° to 10° latitudes on either side of the equator but at some places it extends up to 15°-25° latitudes mainly along the eastern margins of the continents.

The equatorial climate is found in the following localities:

(i) The Amazon Basin in South America,

(ii) The Congo Basin in Africa,

(iii) Guinea coast in Africa,

(iv) Much of the Indo-Malaysian Region mainly in Java, Sumatra, Bor­neo, Malaysia, Singapore and New Guinea,

(v) Philip­pine Islands,

(vi) Eastern central America (parts of Panama, Costarica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala etc.), some islands in the Caribbean Sea, western Columbia and eastern Madagascar.

Biomes are largely based on the geography and climate of a region. Therefore, a biome is a Geoclimatic zone that is identifiable on a global scale and includes things such as plants and animals.