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Aerial render of the Build The Earth project on a modified Airocean World Map. Build the Earth was created by YouTuber PippenFTS in March 2020 as a collaborative effort to recreate Earth in the video game Minecraft. [1] During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the server aimed to provide players with the opportunity to virtually experience and construct ...
The Mixedwood Plains is the most populated ecozone in Canada, with about half of the country's total population. [3] Of the top 25 most populous cities in Canada, 13 are found in this ecozone, including the two largest, Toronto with 6.1 million inhabitants and Montreal with 4.2 million inhabitants, as well as the country's capital city, Ottawa.
Hudson Plains has short mild summers and long harsh winters. It is considered a continental climate. There is little opportunity to grow food because of the short growing season that is only around 110 days each year and the cold weather. [15] The mean annual temperatures range from -7 degrees Celsius to -2 degrees Celsius.
This category is being considered for merging into Category:Trees of the United States. This nomination is part of a discussion of several related categories. This does not mean that any of the pages in the category will be deleted. They may, however, be recategorized.
[1] Pine barrens, coastal barrens, and serpentine barrens are some of the more distinct ecoregions for barren vegetation and are the most commonly researched by scientists. Often referred to as "heathlands", barrens can be excellent environments for unique biological diversity and taxonomic compositions. [1]
It is the highest and driest region of the Western Corn Belt Plains, as it rises to meet the Northern Glaciated Plains (46) of the Dakotas. Although loess covers almost all of the broad upland flats, ridges, and slopes, minor glacial till outcrops occur near the base of some of the side slopes.
They are often known in English as planes or plane trees. A formerly used name that is now rare is plantain tree (not to be confused with other, unrelated, species with the name ). [ 2 ] Some North American species are called sycamores (especially Platanus occidentalis ), [ 3 ] although the term is also used for several unrelated species of trees .
Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral (/ ˌ ʃ æ p ə ˈ r æ l, ˌ tʃ æ p-/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-) [1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.