Vocabulary
An area of the planet that can be classified according to the plants and animals that live in it.
What is a biome?
This biome is cold, treeless, and the ground is permanently frozen.
What is the tundra?
Species that have a large impact on their habitats. Their presence critically affects many other species.
What are keystone species?
The variety of life.
What is biodiversity?
Species that come from a different region of the world.
What are invasive species?
The daily fluctuation of temperature and precipitation.
What is weather?
This biome has four distinct seasons, a large number of trees, and organisms that utilize camouflage are common here.
What is a deciduous forest?
What are indicator species?
The variation of deoxyribonucleic acid and genes within a species or population.
What is genetic biodiversity?
What are limiting factors?
Weather in a particular location over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This biome is warm year-round, located near the equator, and has distinct rainy and dry seasons.
What is a rainforest?
The final stage of ecological succession.
What is a climax community?
The number of species in an area divided by the total number of individuals in the area.
What is a biodiversity index?
What is endemic?
A chart showing changes in climate over time.
What is a climatogram?
What is the alpine biome?
The first organisms to return to barren environments after an ecological disturbance.
What are pioneer species?
The variety of a population within a habitat or region.
What is species biodiversity?
Lionfish, an invasive species in the southwest Atlantic, are native to these waters.
What are the South Pacific and the Indian Oceans?
A method of sampling the number of species by counting the number of species that touch a physical line.
What is a transect?
The four characteristics that define a biome.
What are temperature, soil, amount of light, and amount of water?
These keystone species are threatened by shrimp farming, tourism, and coastal development.
What are mangrove trees?
The highest possible number for a biodiversity index.
What is 1?
Lionfish reproduce rapidly, laying this number of eggs every four days.
What is 30,000?