Ecological Scales
Earth's Systems
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A group of the same organisms in a particular area.
What is a population.
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This determines the mean tempature of the Earth.
What is the amount of light.
100
This is the biome of Southern California.
What is the Chaparral
200
Multiple populations of diffrent (distinct) organisms that inhabit a specific geographic area interacting with one another.
What is a community.
200
The trapping of the suns radiation that has been asrobed by the Earth and prevented from leaving our atmosphere, thus increasing the mean tempature.
What is the green house effect.
200
As warm moist air rises against a mountain it begins to cool, cool air holds less mositure this the water vapor rains down. This causes one side to be wet while the other is dry. 
What is the rain shadow effect
300
A biological community of interacting organisms PLUS the physical (abiotic) environment.
What is ecosystem
300
This determines how much light stikes the Earths surface creating our seasons.
What is Earth's tilt.
300
In the nothern hemisphere, this causes the south facing slope to recvive more light then the northern facing slope.
What is which way the slope faces.
400
Large areas of land or water that and contain geographically distinct groups of natural communities and species compared to other areas.
What is region (ecoregion)
400
This phenomenon shows that as a liquid or gas is heated it expands, becoming less dense (lighter) rising while cooler denser material to sink.
What is convection
400
Name each of the following:
X is the short term changes in temp, rain, ect.
Y is the general pattern of temp, rain, ect over long time scales.
What is weather
What is climate
500
The surface (lithosphere), atmosphere, and hypdrosphere of a planet occupied by living organisms.
What is biosphere.
500
This effect is caused by Earths rotation. As warm air rises and heads towards a cooler area, it is deflected. To the right in the Northern Hemi, to the left is the Southern Hemi.
What is the Coriolis effect.
500
Due to the Coriolis effect, these three cells make up Earths air circulation.
What is the Hadley cell, Farrel cell, and polar cell.
