What is likely to happen if weather patterns change and the amount of rainfall that a tropical rainforest receives decreases from a yearly average of 200 cm to 100 cm per year? Multiple Choice The vegetation and animals would be replaced by organisms adapted to desert conditions. The rain forest trees would gradually be replaced with shrubs and grasslands and the animal species inhabiting the biome would also change. Nothing, the species of plants and the animals living in that biome will adapt over time. The plant species would stay the same, as would the animals, but there would be fewer of them.
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