What is the relationship between the climate zone and the resultant biome?
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A biome is a climax ecosystem that is stable through time and characterizes a certain region. Biomes are described in terms of their physiognomy (=structure of the vegetation), and of course the types of plants that can grow anywhere depend on many factors, among them: 1) soil, 2) temperature, 3) precipitations, 4) other living beings. \nThe American botanist and ecologist Robert Whittaker was the first to come up with a diagram (now known as the Whittaker biome system) that summarized the effects of precipitations and temperature as the two major factors that determine the development of biomes, in 1975. \nSee different versions of this diagram at the links: \nhttp://www.msstate.edu/dept/biosciences/fishbein/whittaker.jpg\nhttp://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/whittaker.jpg\nhttp://raieh.homelinux.net/imgdb/B/Biome/WhittakerBiomeDiagram.gif\nThis diagram is a simple but good representation of the relationship between climate (Tº and precipitations) and biomes.
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Climate zone Characteristics \nPolar very cold and dry all year \nTemperate cold winters and mild summers \nArid dry, hot all year \nTropical hot and wet all year \nMediterranean mild winters, dry hot summers \nMountains (Tundra) very cold all year
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Could be related to it in some indirect way. Many people seem to assume that if the globe warms that will mean hot & dry weather - desertlike conditions. Yet increasing CO2 may make vegetation more abundant - warmer weather causing more evaporation and probably more rain. So the NE may more begin to resemble a rain forest during summer.\n\nThe reason it has been raining alot recently though is persistent SE-S flow around an Atlantic surface High and a mid-tropospheric trof to the E. Warm & moist air flows inland and is lifted by the terrain, and conditions are favorable to support ascending air ahead of the upper trof.\n\nA High over the Atlantic is a persistent feature during summer. If it is far enough S, a large surface ridge builds over the SE U.S. from it and hot & dry SW-W winds occur over the NE. If it is further N though, that becomes a S-SE wind - an onshore flow which contributes to persistent and locally heavy rains.
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The tropics or the equatorial regions,   are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator (parallel 0) and limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere, at approximately 23°26' (23.4°) N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23°26' (23.4°) S latitude. This region is also referred to as the tropical zone and the torrid zone.\n\nThis area includes all the areas of the Earth where the sun reaches a point directly overhead at least once during the solar year. (In the temperate zones, north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the sun never reaches an altitude of 90° or directly overhead.) The word "tropics" comes from Greek tropos meaning "turn", because the apparent position of the Sun oscillates between the two tropics with a period that defines the average length of a year.\n\nTropical plants and animals are those species native to the tropics. Tropical is also sometimes used in a general sense for a tropical climate, a climate that is warm to hot and moist year-round, often with the sense of lush vegetation. However, there are places in the tropics that are anything but "tropical" in this sense, with even alpine tundra and snow-capped peaks, including Mauna Kea, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and the Andes as far south as the northernmost parts of Chile and Argentina. Places in the tropics which are drier with low humidity are such as the Sahara Desert and Central Africa and Northern Australian Outback.\n\nTropical ecosystems may consist of rainforests, dry deciduous forests, spiny forests, desert and other habitat types. There are often significant areas of biodiversity and species endemism present particularly in rainforests and dry deciduous forests. Some examples of important biodiversity and/or high endemism ecosystems are: Costa Rican rainforests, Madagascar dry deciduous forests, Waterberg Biosphere of South Africa and eastern Madagascar rainforests. Often the soils of tropical forests are low in nutrient content making them quite vulnerable to slash-and-burn techniques, which are sometimes an element of shifting cultivation agricultural systems-.
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I found it on the web site. Scroll to the bottom of the page.\n\nhttp://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/courses/Ecology/BL21C/ECOL2453_sc/Seasonal_communities.html
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Observe how climate creates the landscape you observe. Work backwards from the landscape to figure out what chemical and weather processes created those formations.
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It can be one or the other or both.\n\nFor example, farming may change a forest into land that is easily eroded. Climate changes include lots of rain either at the site or upstream Maybe a hot summer will melt more snow from a mountain..there are just a few examples.
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Climate exists because weather is dominated by several quasi-permanent weather systems (including a high-pressure over Bermuda which oscillates and low pressures near the poles).  These weather systems do not move much (except for annual oscillations), so weather patterns will emerge from this quasi-stationary setup, and hence we have climates.
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go to this website \n\nhttp://www.climate-zone.com/climate/united-states/florida/tampa/\n\nthere you have a detailed answer
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http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_rainforest
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they stabilize dust, control erosion, entrap air polluting gases, conserving water and harboring wildlife. Climate control is obtained by moderating the effects of sun, wind, and rain. Radiant energy from the sun is absorbed or deflected by leaves on deciduous trees in the summer and is filtered by their branches in winter. We are cooler when we stand in the shade of trees and are not exposed to direct sunlight. In winter, we value the sun's radiant energy; Wind speed and direction can be affected by trees.\n\nThere are many and many more , hope i could cover the gist.
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Sorry, it looks like you have to go for extra credit.  There are 12 aquatic biomes.\n\nLook these up in Wikipedia...\n\nContinental Shelf\nIntertidal Zone\nRiparian\nPond\nCoral Reef\nKelp Forest\nPack Ice\nHydrothermal Vents\nCold Seeps\nBenthic Zone\nPelagic Zone\nNeritic Zone
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Here's one theory:\n\nClimate Model Links Warm Temperatures to Greatest Extinction\nWork supports theory that rise in levels of carbon dioxide triggered die-off\n\n\n\nScientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado have created a computer simulation showing Earth's climate in unprecedented detail at the time of the greatest mass extinction in history.\n\nAccording to an August 24 press release from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the work supports a theory that an abrupt and dramatic rise in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide triggered the massive die-off at the end of the Permian Era, 251 million years ago.\n\nDuring that time, an estimated 90 percent to 95 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land species became extinct -- an extinction even greater than that of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.\n\nMany scientists equate high concentrations of carbon dioxide with warmer temperatures, and a close correspondence has been found between carbon dioxide and temperature for the past 570 million years.\n\nAt the end of the Permian, Earth had a single landmass (a supercontinent) called Pangea. Higher-latitude temperatures were 10-30 degrees Celsius warmer than today, and volcanic activity had released large amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere over a period of 700,000 years.\n\n"The implication of our study is that elevated [carbon dioxide] is sufficient to lead to inhospitable conditions for marine life and excessively high temperatures over land would contribute to the demise of terrestrial life," the authors concluded.\n\nTo understand how such conditions might have affected climate and life around the globe, the researchers used the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), which can integrate changes in atmospheric temperatures with ocean temperatures and currents.\n\nThe CCSM indicated that ocean temperatures warmed significantly at higher latitudes because of rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.\n\nIn the ocean, warmer temperatures reached a depth of about 4,000 meters, interfering with the normal circulation process in which colder surface water descends, taking oxygen and nutrients deep into the ocean.\n\nAs a result, ocean waters had little oxygen, proving deadly to marine life. Because marine organisms no longer removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the rate of warming accelerated.
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ecosystem? biosphere? biological community?
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it depends on the species, the soil condition, the amount of sunlight and the temp and wind or lack of.
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Rainforests are their own ecosystems.  They have a warm and moist climate with rainfall of 79 to 157 inches a year.  The nutrients in the soil cycle rapidly, causing the soils to be nutrient poor.  They have the highest biodiversity of the ecosystmes.