A world map showing the approximate 8 main ecozones of Earth. An ecozone is a region containing animal life that evolved together,separated from the other ecozones,for most of their history. The ecozones are: Palaearctic (purple,covering much of Eurasia); Nearctic (green,North America); Neotropic (red,South and Central America); Afrotropic (yellow,sub-Saharan Africa); Indomalaya (orange,covering South-East Asia and some equatorial Pacific islands); Australasia (blue,covering Australasia); Oceania (beige,the Pacific islands); and Antarctic (white) |