Bio
Biome that occur around 30 degrees latitude in both northern and southern hemisphere. High temperature with low precipitation.
What is desert?
The layer of the atmosphere that has the most nitrogen, oxygen, and water vapor
What is troposphere?
Probably one of the oldest methods of irrigating fields, where farmers flow water down small trenches running through their crops
What is furrow irrigation?
The limit of how many individuals in a population on the environment can sustain
What is carrying capacity(K)?
What is fish ladder?
Examples for this type of rock are sandstone, limestone, and shale.
What is sedimentary rock?
Two or more crop species planted in the same field at same time
What is intercropping?
The property of the soil to transmit water and air
What is permeability?
This biome has permafrost that remains frozen and low soil nutirents
What is tundra?
Area where there's no longer any groundwater, caused by overuse
What is cone of depression?
The practice of regulating the number or spacing of offspring through the use of birth control
What is family planning?
A global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances
What is Montreal Protocol?
The process by which the structure of a biological community evolves over time
What is ecological succession?
An area of the Earth's mantle from which hot plumes rise upward, forming volcanoes on the overlying crust
What is a hot spot?
The creation of a large pit or hole in the ground that is visible from Earth's surface
What is open-pit mining?
The area of earth that receives the most intese sunlight where the ascending brances of the Hadley cells converge
What is intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)?
The result of two populations within a species evolving separately to the point that they can no longer interbreed and produce viable offspring
What is reproductive isolation?
The percentage of incoming sunlight reflected from a surface
What is albedo?
A fire is deliberately set under controlled conditions; help reduce the risk of uncontrolled natural fires, and release nutrients in dead biomass
What is prescribed burn?
The largest average catch that can be captured from a stock under existing environmental conditions
What is maximum sustainable yield (in fisheries)?