As you can see Southern California contains manydifferent life zones based upon a wide range of climates andvegetation. Life zones is an older system of classificationoriginally based upon temperature. It has gradually been replaced by asystem of classification based upon biomes. In Southern Californiathe dominant form of vegetation is chaparral. Chaparral belongs to abiome called the scrub biome. Other California biomes are thegrassland, desert, coniferous forest, temperate rain forest, tundraand temperate deciduous forest. The chaparral is located primarily inthe Upper and Lower Sonoran. The area we will explore today is locatedin the transverse mountains of the Southern regions of California.