Think about your favorite places to hike: forests, deserts, grassland meadows, mountains, and seashores. What makes each of these landscapes different than the next? Is it the flowers, shrubs, and trees? Is it the animals? Is it the climate? Yes, yes and yes.

In this tutorial, you'll be introduced to factors that influence the development of biomes worldwide. Biomes are large, distinct, land-based environments that host diverse kinds of flora and fauna due to differences in temperature, precipitation, and other factors. You'll also learn about individual biomes and how the geographical and plant-life features of each one differ.

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