As a result, the earthly climate is divided into large patches or cells, wet into great gyres around ocean basins, causing different climates where they approach continents and where they depart, thereby superimposing local climatic patches on the global system. Mountain ranges bar the reflected in the pattern of biomes. Specific plants grow in specific biomes. A biome is defined as an ecosystem of a large geographic area in which plants are of one formation and for which climate sets the limits. Low latitudes receive more heat and plant diversity is reflective of this first law of inequality.
Higher latitudes receive less heat, are cold and dry resulting in particular biomes.
The earth is a spinning sphere, the equator of which is just a few degrees away from being parallel with the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. This means that the intensity of irradiance per unit area is always less at high latitudes than it is at the equator. Low latitudes, therefore, get more heat, this being the primary inequality in energy supply that imposes a patchwork of climates not the earth. The height above sea level of a place also helps determine the climate. The higher one goes above seal level, the lower the average yearly temperature will be.