Our inquiry into ecological integrity begins with a study of biological communities in our past!

Estuaries | Definition | Introduction | Map | Landscape | My Goals

Welcome to Lesson One: The Biomes of North America

A Biome is a biotic province with specific climatic conditions and geographical features, you are in the Southern coastal mixed conifer and hardwood forest biome, perched atop sandy soil.

Rollins College is situated on Karst topography, in the St. Johns River valley, with a sub-tropical climate with distinct wet and dry seasons (winter is usually dry, while summer is the rainy season).

Fall is actually the start of a second growing season in Florida for fruits, vegetables and exotic plants.

A User's Guide to discovering your identity with respect to the biotic and geographical parts of the continent.

What is your knowledge of the USA?

Where can you go to get a feel for natural areas of the US?

Your goals: select this button and send me -- jsiry@rollins.edu -- a description of your expectations of this class and the intentions you have for learning something new in thecourse.

My objectives:

For you to learn the bioregional provinces of North America ?

All assignments are to assist you to take a test on place names and significant ecological areas of the nation's geographical features:

Where are these places?

1. Eastern Seaboard ...the tidewater, fall-line & piedmont plateau.

2. Southern Coastal Plain ...Sea Islands, Florida, Mississippi Delta & Cuba.

3. Appalachian Highlands ...Alleghenies, Smokies, Cumberland Gap, the Shenandoah and Monongehelia Rivers.

4. Central Region ...Prairies, Ohio & Missouri River Valleys, Great Plains.

5. Pacific Rim ...Sierra Nevada, Cascade and Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, Columbia & Colorado Rivers, Yellowstone Basin & Yosemite Valley.

A Polish landscape depicting the human imprint on the European environment.

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