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CHAPTER OUTLINE

Earth’s Major Biomes 128

■ Environmental InSight: How Climate Shapes

Terrestrial Biomes

s Tundra

s Boreal Forest

s Temperate Rain Forest

s Temperate Deciduous Forest

s Temperate Grassland

s Chaparral

■ EnviroDiscovery: Using Goats to Fight Fires

s Desert

s Savanna

s Tropical Rain Forest

Aquatic Ecosystems 142

s Freshwater Ecosystems

■ What a Scientist Sees: Zonation in a Large Lake

s Brackish Ecosystems: Estuaries

Population Responses to Changing Conditions

over Time: Evolution 147

s Natural Selection

■ Environmental InSight: Evidence for Evolution

Community Responses to Changing Conditions

over Time: Succession 151

s Primary Succession

s Secondary Succession

■ Case Study: Wildfires

CHAPTER PLANNER✓✓

❑ Study the picture and read the opening story.

❑ Scan the Learning Objectives in each section:

p. 128 ❑ p. 142 ❑ p. 147 ❑ p. 151 ❑

❑ Read the text and study all figures and visuals.

Answer any questions.

Analyze key features

❑ Environmental InSight, p. 129 ❑ pp. 150–151 ❑

❑ National Geographic Map, pp. 130–131 ❑

❑ EnviroDiscovery, p. 138

❑ What a Scientist Sees, p. 143

❑ Process Diagram, p. 149 ❑ p. 152 ❑ p. 153 ❑

❑ Case Study, p. 154

❑ Stop: Answer the Concept Checks before you go on:

p. 142 ❑ p. 147 ❑ p. 150 ❑ p. 153 ❑

End of Chapter

❑ Review the Summary and Key Terms.

❑ Answer What is happening in this picture?

❑ Answer the Critical and Creative Thinking Questions.