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Mount San Jacinto at almost 11,000 feet elevation is only a few miles from Palm Springs, California, located in the lower Mojave-Colorado Desert in southern California. Temperatures in Palm Springs have been recorded as high as 120 °F. If you were to take the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway to the very top of Mount San Jacinto, what type of biome would you find?

a. Desertb. Temperate forestc. Taigad. Tundrae. Grassland

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d. Tundra

Step-by-step explanation:

Tundra is a sort of biome in physical geography, where cold temperatures and short growing seasons hinder the growth of the plant.

This consists of dwarf shrubs, sedges and grasses, mosses and lichens. In some tundra areas, scattered trees are growing.

The tundra-forest ecotone (or ecological boundary region) is called the tree line or timberline.

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