They know that habitats provide homes for all the Earth's flora and fauna, including humans. Many students struggle, however, identifying and differentiating ecosystems, because ecosystems range in size from a clump of grasses to a steppe in northern Asia and can be nested within each other in complex relationships. The following activity helps students identify and describe differences between two related ecosystems.
Many students believe that the Earth's only rain forests are found in the tropics.
On the contrary, temperate rain forests can be found along the coast of North America's Pacific Northwest. These stands are as endangered as and much smaller than their tropical cousins. Tree Giants of North America. The Olympic Peninsula. Tropical Rain Forest Klum, Mattias.