Terrestrial Biomes
This biome has permafrost, low precipitation, and the lowest net productivity.
What is the Tundra?
This is the total amount of sun energy (light) that plants capture and convert to energy (glucose) through photosynthesis.
What is Gross Primary Productivity (GPP)?
This concept describes the range where organisms survive, but experience some stress such as infertility, lack of growth, decreased activity, etc.
What is zone of physiological stress?
This species produce many offspring, are better suited for rapidly changing environmental conditions, and are more likely to be invasive.
What are r-selected species?
The appearance of deflection of objects traveling through the atmosphere due to the spin of Earth is known as this.
What is the Coriolis Effect
Biomes shift in location on Earth as this changes.
What is climate change?
This is known as the 1st law of thermodynamics.
What is energy is never created or destroyed?
This zone represents the range where the organism will die.
What is zone of intolerance?
This is the max number of individuals in a population that an ecosystem can support (based on limiting resources).
This is the amount of solar radiation (energy from sun's rays) reaching an area.
What is insolation?
This biome is characterized by very little rainfall, adaptive organisms, and low net primary productivity.
What is the desert?
Limited sunlight, nutrient availability, and temperature all directly affect this ecological process.
What is primary productivity?
This is an environmental disturbance (natural disaster/human habitat destruction) that drastically reduces population size and kills organisms regardless of their genome.
What is a bottleneck event?
Food, competition for habitat, water, and light are all examples of what type of factors.
What are density-dependent factors?
The tilt of Earth's axis causes variation in...
What is angle of insolation, length of day, and season?
Biomes exist in predictable pattern on Earth because of this.
What is latitude (distance from equator) which determines temperature and precipitation?
Only about 10% of energy moves from one level to te next one because each time energy is transferred, some of it is lost as this.
What is heat?
Higher species diversity also means there will be higher...
What is ecosystem resilience?
This is known as an initial rapid growth, then limiting factors limit the population to the carrying capacity.
What is logistic growth?
These circulation cells create warm, wet conditions near the equator.
What are Hadley cells?
This factor most directly explains why tropical rainforests have higher biodiversity than other biomes.
What is high insolation and precipitation?
This calculation represents the amount of energy (biomass) leftover for consumers after plants have used some for respiration.
NPP = GPP - RL
What is periodic, episodic, and random?
This species has low biotic potential, high parental care, are less likely to adapt and more likely to go extinct.
What are K-selected species?
The solar intensity of insolation depends on these two factors.
What is the angle (how directly rays strike Earth's surface) and the amount of atmosphere sun's rays pass through?