Biomes of the World
What grows where — the planet's living regions, painted by climate.
About this globe
Satellite-classified land cover: each color is a biome, from rainforest to tundra. Climate writes the map — temperature and rainfall decide what can grow.
Notice how the bands repeat on every continent: forest gives way to grassland, then desert, then grassland again as you move from equator to pole.
- forest
- grassland & savanna
- cropland
- desert & barren
- snow & ice
- urban
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"Biomes of the World" folding paper globe — free from Folding Globes, https://foldingglobes.com/globes/biomes · Data: NASA Earth Observations (MODIS land cover)
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