bios = life, + geographia from ge = earth and graphia = writing (G)
Biome
from bios = life (G)
Biota
from biote = life (G)
Climate
from klima = zone (G).Originally meaning a zone between two lines of latitude, climate later evolved into the term for atmospheric conditions of a region.
Desert
from desertum = something left, waste (L)
Dispersal
from dis = widely, spargare = scatter (L)
Equator
from aequare = make equal (L)
Gondwana
from gondavana = forest of Gond (S)
Habitat
from habitare = inhabit (L)
Latitude
from latus = broad (L)
Laurasia
a combination of Asia and Laurentia, which refers to North America
Marine
marinusfrom mare = sea (L)
Pangaea
from pan = all + gaia = Earth (G)
Radiation
radiate = to spread outward from a single point, from radius = ray, spoke (L)
Terrestrial
terrestris from terra = Earth (L)
Tropics
tropikos from trope = turning (G)
Vicariance
from vicarius = substitute (L). This is the same root in the word vicarious, which your grandma might use to tell you she's living vicariously through you when you're out partying on the weekends and she's stuck playing bingo at the retirement home.