How Many Biomes Are In The World? (Visiting Englands Desert) 

Should have just brought up the f3 screen to see what biome it actually was.

2:57 POV: You’re chilling in the desert and a random British man starts lecturing you about deserts

The whitish yellow on Google Maps does not mean desert. It simply means the lack of overwhelming floral coverage. That could be desert or it could be mountains, steppes, concrete jungles and so on. The Turkish inland is shown completely in that whitish yellow colour however it has not a single desert region. It has only 1 very tiny sand desert in Konya Province.

Plato: A desert is anywhere with sand Diogenes: *points to Dungeness* Look, a desert!

2:21 I am at the Dungeness Nature Reserve.

The US has its own Dungeness national nature preserve, the Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge in Washington on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Its Dungeness Spit was named by British explorer George Vancouver in 1792, writing that its "low sandy point of land" greatly resembled Dungeness, so they called it "New Dungeness". The Dungeness crab is named after Washington's Dungeness Spit and is typically found from Alaska's Aleutian Islands down to Santa Barbara in California. For the one in England, Dungeness's name means "the headland at Denge", referring to nearby Denge Marsh, and the marsh in turn is first mentioned in 774 as Dengemersc, and means "marsh of the pasture district". My favorite desert has to be the Namib Desert! The desert’s unique geology is shaped by the convergence of coastal winds and the ancient Tsauchab River. Fogs that originate offshore from the collision of the cold Benguela Current and warm air from the Hadley Cell create a fog belt that frequently envelops parts of the desert. Coastal regions can experience more than 180 days of thick fog a year! While this has proved a major hazard to ships, as the coast's many wrecks litter the Skeleton Coast, it is a vital source of moisture for desert life, like DESERT RAIN FROGS! The surreal landscape of Deadvlei, with its petrified trees contrasting against white clay pan, adds a mysterious touch. The indigenous San people even call it "The Land God Made in Anger". Another favorite desert is Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat at over 10,000 square km! The Salar de Uyuni was formed as a result of prehistoric lakes evaporating, leaving behind a vast expanse of salt. During the rainy season, a thin layer of water transforms the flat into an enormous reflective surface, creating quite the mesmerizing spectacle! Maine has a desert around Freeport! Now like Dungeness, the Desert of Maine receives a lot of precipitation, the Desert of Maine's average annual precipitation is 50 inches and their annual snowfall is 72.1 inches, both far above the United States' averages, but why Maine has this technically not a desert is still very interesting. Basically as the glaciers in Maine started to melt, by about 13,500 years ago, the glaciers' retreat reached the Freeport area, where the land that would comprise the future Desert of Maine began to emerge from below the sea. At some point after the Desert area emerged, it became a sink for wind-blown sand, around 12,500 years ago. Then plants stabilized the sand deposit within a hundred years and became a forest. But farming eventually exposed the sand. It became a farm in 1821 when it was purchased by the Tuttle family. Like other Maine farmers, the Tuttles' methods of farming gradually depleted the soil of essential nutrients, and overgrazing produced widespread erosion of the topsoil, exposing a deposit of aeolian sand that was lying underneath. Eventually the entire farm became barren, the Tuttles abandoned the land in 1890, and in 1925, Henry Goldrup purchased the land and developed it into a tourist attraction

99% of the UK might as well be known as a "Silent Hill" biome since it's so grey and misty all the time

this kinda feels like a Tom Scott video

Fun fact, Canada has a desert that actually passes the vibe check. It's called the Athabasca Sand Dunes Provincial Park and it's in northern Saskatchewan.

On the topic of biomes of the UK, the UK has rainforests but they're somewhat endangered in part because non-native species like some deer and sheep eat the saplings of these trees before they have a chance to grow. It's a good example of where nature restoration can't just be done with a hands-off approach. It needs human intervention to ensure these habitats can recover and continue to thrive into the long future, as they have been with us since the long, long past.

You must be drop dead exhausted by the end of the day with all your physical expression.

Scallop facts: Scallop is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae. However, the common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters. Scallops are in the phylum Mollusca, a group of animals that also includes snails, sea slugs, octopuses, squid, clams, mussels, and oysters. These animals have two hinged shells that are formed of calcium carbonate. They have a well-developed nervous system, and scallops have anywhere up to 200 eyes that line their mantle! These eyes may be a brilliant blue color, and they allow the scallop to detect light, dark, and motion. They use their retinas to focus light, a job the cornea does in human eyes. A small minority of scallop species live cemented to rocky substrates as adults, while others attach themselves to stationary or rooted objects such as seagrass at some point in their lives by means of a filament they secrete called a byssal thread. The majority of species, however, live recumbent on sandy substrates, and when they sense the presence of a predator such as a starfish, they may attempt to escape by swimming swiftly but erratically through the water using jet propulsion created by repeatedly clapping their shells together. A pretty cool (not technical) desert is one located on Brazil's northern coast called Lençóis Maranhenses National Park. The sand is carried to the park from the interior of the continent by the Parnaíba and Preguiças rivers, where it is then driven back inland up to 50 kilometers (31 mi) by winds, creating a series of sand dunes rising as much as 40 meters (130 ft) tall. During the rainy season, between the months of January and June, the rainstorms fill the spaces among the dunes with freshwater lagoons of up to 100 meters (330 ft) in length and 3 meters (10 ft) in depth. The water in the lagoons is prevented from draining by a layer of impermeable rock located beneath the sandy surface.

I love living near the uk’s only desert

Dungeness is pronounced dungeon-ess

No-one: England: * random beach * "DESERT!"

I love the large amount of videos that have released recently!

As someone from nearby on the South East coast, I find the way you pronounce Dungeness hilarious… it is actually more like “Dungeon-ness” 😅

Always love the IRL content

I was never expecting the funny British minecraft guy to become the new Tom Scott.

The fish and chip restaurant next to the power plant has absolutely legendary mushy peas

My ecology lecturer at uni used to say "the only true rule of ecology is there's always exceptions". Much the same with pretty much all life sciences

As a British person who was never taught about biomes in school, I genuinely thought it was just a word made up for Minecraft

Dungeness is probably just a wide beach

Fake deserts are a reality on many countries. Despite Brazil being gigantic it does not have a desert within its territory. However, there are places like Lençóis Maranhenses and Jalapão that look like deserts but do not fit the dryness requirements to be one. But also it has a very dry savannah (caatinga) that may be artificially desertified in the future

I don't know if you'll see this, but this place is a restinga (in Portuguese "restinga"), a coastal biome with sandy soil and low vegetation

The way to tell if it's a desert is what kind of zombies show up at night. Also, scallops are good actually; I feel like you've never had good ones. Remedy this at once!

precipitation isn’t the only factor in how arid a region is, evaporation is equally important, an area with low rainfall and high evaporation will be arid, but low evaporation and low precipitation will not. Not sure exactly how relevant this is, but I think it’s important to not exclusively look at precipitation.

i love my state of Washington. There are rainforests, evergreen forests, some alpine climates, scrublands, some deserts, multiple mountain ranges, and even our own tiny tectonic plate.

This is exactly what I needed today Minecraft guy eating a scallop wrap thing

That map at 5:45 is especially funny to me, an Alaskan. I'm looking out at my bleak and desolate tundra (young mountains and boreal rainforest) shivering in my ball-freezing 57-degree-farenheight blizzard (a light misty rain) and having a hoot at how apparently Guyana and Tibet have the same biome classification

You can also ride there on a small train from hythe, new romney or Dymchurch

In Poland, we have a pretty much analogous structucture in Słowiński National Park, but most wouldn't call it desert, as it's a coastal patch of barren dunes. Again, as you've said in the beginning, it's all semantics - by definition, due to barenness, it *is* a desert indeed, even though it came to be due to sand accumulation rather than lack of water. We *do* however have a genuine desert, the Błędów Desert (Pustynia Błędowska), and I was told its one of three deserts in temperate continental Europe. The other two being in the much drier steppe, this one is surrounded by green fields and forests, making for a stark contrast. And it is a weird one, as it's a basin filled with sand that, for whatever reason, had dropped its groundwater water levels locally enough it became the place Afrikakorps trained at before being sent out to the deserts down south back in WWII. Oh, and the desertification appears to be fairly recent, and may have to do with medieval mining in the area. Interesting all around!

Canada also has a desert. Its biggest town is Ashcroft, BC. Which is also the only town in the desert. Ashcroft owns all the land in the desert. The desert is very small.

Sand? Looks like all rocks to me. Area looks more scrublands than desert.

never knew you had a broadcaster voice in you

The best choice at the Dungeness Snack Shack is the fish roll. It's whatever's the catch of the day but it's super fresh. I had cod last time and it was epic.

Just a reminder to everyone, England does not have a desert. A Desert is typically defined as anywhere that gets below 10” of precipitation a year, no where in England has this low precipitation. Also many people claim that their country has a desert, when in reality, its a Semi Arid Steppe, close but not a desert.

New toycat dropped 😂

Fun fact Poland has a desert it's bloody weird 😂

2:55 toycat has never looked so queer❣

As someone who lives in Christchurch, Canterbury NZ I can confirm I definitely don’t live in the Savanna

Love your content toycat

This is why we use the Köppen climate classification!

So, Dungeoness is like Provincetown, Massachusetts in that regard

I like how biome change line in my city matches railway line. Basically you have only leaves trees on one side and only coniferous trees on the other

Great videos as always, the greasy hair getting crazy tho 💀

6:20 Alvar on screen! I live right next to the world's by far largest alvar biome on Öland, which consists of limestone plains with shallow or no soil and sparse vegetation. Two thirds of all alvar on Earth area-wise (665 out of a measly 995 square kilometers) exist here in Sweden, but the biome does show up in other places around northern Europe and around the Great Lakes on the other side of the Atlantic.

Only the Brits would put a lobster roll stand next to a Nuclear Power Plant and still make fun of other countries eating habits.

I remember watching an amazing video about U.K. having a temperate rainforest and I found it so cool; it’s actually protected, too!

Andrew, scallops taste like the salt of the sea, not the salt of the earth.

My great grandad used to go fishing here. Yellow fisherman suit and all

Very intriguing HOWEVER as penance for covering up New Zealand you should do a video on British influence of New Zealand’s development.

I’ve only heard of Dungeness from a song by Athlete, I always assumed it was in Scotland

you look very majestic laying on the beach like that haha

You might think that "England's desert" would be popularly situated somewhere in East Anglia, the driest region of the country.

Whether dish is breakfast, lunch or dinner is only depends on the time of the day that you're eating it. Before you eat, it's just food. But when you start eating eat, based on current daytime it becomes either breakfast, lunch or dinner.

When I used to live in Kent I loved going to Dungeness and Romney Marsh; Such a cool, alien landscape. I actually started writing a story about Dungeness being invaded during the Napoleonic Wars and ending up stuck between two conflicting treaties, making it Terra Nulius. Perhaps I should keep writing it 🤔😁

Film maker Derek Jarman had a small house and garden there which was quite famous. Also the estate is owned by EdF which also owns the power station, and EdF is owned by the government of France. This is because government ownership of power stations and infrastructure in Britain is a very bad thing (unless we're talking about someone elses government - obviously)

If it gives me desert vibes it's a desert. I used to live in a town called Drumheller which is right on the border of Canada's only (hot) desert, and technically it's an "arid steppe" but like bruh it's got desert vibes it's a desert.

I think one of the big problems with biome designation is just that you're trying to apply strict borders to a gradual process for example the difference between West Scotland and Kent is ginormous on a national scale but insignificant on a world scale, but is it enough to define them separately? good question

I usually think of ten biomes: ice, tundra, taiga, forest, subtropics, tropics, savanna, hot desert, cold deseet, and steppe.

I’ve been there! The day it went it was extremely gray and windy and honestly I think that’s what hell looks like. Decommissioned power plant included.

what about future biomes? in the UK, the Giant Redwoods planted over 100 years ago will change and effect the local environment with enough mass. other locations are reverting back tin deserts, for the 50+ time.

you should look at the sand drifts in the netherlands, they look like deserts in the middle of a forest

I typically refer to the köppen climate classification

You'd only ever tried scallops deep fried? Absolute peasant Im not surprised the scallop sandwich was bad

The first map labeled the piney woods of the southern United States as deciduous forest rather than coniferous forest, which I thought was a bit strange. It does have some deciduous trees, but it's at least 2/3 pine trees which are conifers. Later maps label it a mixed forest or mixed/deciduous forest which makes more sense.

The definition for desert i have always heard is something like "a place with low biodiversity"

The rockiest sand I've ever seen

There are probably around a few thousand Biomes on Earth, especially because each is unique

It's been ages since the last new biome update on earth. They should bring out an ice age or a nether update in the next patch.

I thought Dungeoness was considered a desert because a lot of the land is sand and stones instead of soil, so there is very little grass and vegetation.

biomes are not just a reflection to the environment itself but how plants and animals also adapted to these places. your dungeness will surely have 80/90% of animals found there along with the rest of uk too. apart from humans kind of destroyed that chance by now i imagine

Grew up nearby. It's not a bloody desert mate it's a flippin beach init

Humans keep destroying the biomes though

Pan seared scallops with sea salt, when seared correctly are absolutely delicious!! Don't understand how you can say they don't have flavor. Perhaps that shop doesn't do scallops well.

Temperate maritime, is the only one worth living in. I can do mediterranean, outside of june-july -august.

honestly i came here for the food review but the rest of the video was kinda fire

Woahhhhh what's up with this high quality content? I'm confused.

Why does this video remind me of a Tom Scott video?

I worked at that power plant for years, it rains all the time, definitely not a desert.

That's absolutely not a desert, it's just a wide beach. You can see the water and the vegetation on the opposite side at the same time. If that's a desert, any big boulder can be considered a desert, too. And parking lots would be man made deserts.

it's clearly called a desert because of tourism

Lobster rolls sound good, but I've never had one. The only place I know to get one is the Mall of America, but they also have sushi burritos, so I always get a sushi burrito (customizable sushi roll the size of a burrito).

Hey toycat, next time you’re in Vegas try Mystic Lobster Roll. I had one yesterday, I thought it was good and want to see if it meets your standards

You need an Uncle Rodger collab... for tax reasons... chilli jam smh.

4:14 put the gunt away 😂

Not covering the tiny trains there is criminal

From the map at the start, the diversity of biomes of the world is pretty underwhelming, I think we should have probably used a set seed with better biomes.

BWh and BWk in Koppen are desert. Rest isn't, simple as. BSh and BSk are semi-arid, so are kind of desert like especially on the drier side closer to BWh and BWk. Koppen Classification is supreme, biomes are determined by climates.

Its a grassland based off grass growing there. Its sparse but not a dessert

But we do get taught about biomes, maybe we didn’t a few years ago

that's just a beach and dunes

I'd say it's more shurbland or steppe tbh

very valid business expense! for science!

It's pronounced "dungeon ess" and it feels like being in a fallout game

I didn’t even know England had deserts 😂

It's just the lack of vegetation, thus the means of life. It's deserted by people, so it's called a "desert".

Desert? There's not even any sand there. I'd say Denmark's "pretend" desert is more so a desert. It has actual sand dunes. Look up Råbjerg Mile.

You Can See The Power Plant From The Beach I Walk My Dog At :)