Terrestrial Biomes
The dominant form of this determines the terrestrial biome.
What is plant life?
These are the two types of aquatic biomes.
What are freshwater and marine?
This nutrient cycle has no atmospheric state.
What is phosphorus?
These organisms are known as producers because they create their own energy.
What are autotrophs?
This biome has a layer of permafrost that factors into plant growth.
What is tundra?
The zone of lakes and ponds where most photosynthesis occurs.
What is the littoral zone?
This part of the carbon cycle is considered to be the slowest step
What is burial?
This is the average percent of energy transfer between trophic levels.
What is 10%?
This biome is characterized by coniferous trees (pine trees).
What is a Taiga
This is the least productive aquatic biome.
What is open ocean?
This cycle has been hugely affected by human construction of buildings and pavement.
What is the water cycle?
This is the formula for Net Primary Productivity.
What is GPP-R=NPP?
What is Savanna?
This aquatic biome is vital to humans due to it's ability to filter water, provide breeding grounds, and act as a carbon sink.
What is a freshwater wetland?
These organisms fix nitrogen from the atmosphere into nitrite and nitrate.
What is bacteria?
When the population of one species in an ecosystem changes it leads to a series of changes called by this name.
What is a feedback loop?
This forest biome has a moderate rainfall with slightly higher precipitation in the summer. It also had an average summer temperature of 15 degrees Celsius.
What is a temperate seasonal forest?
This harsh marine biome is known for it's rocks and wide variety of creatures like barnacles, sponges, mussels, and crabs
What is the intertidal zone?
If too much nitrogen ends up in a lake or a pond, the ecosystem is at risk due to this process of extreme algae growth?
What is eutrophication?
This is an organism that consumes the flesh of dead animals.
What is a detrivore?