Ecosystems
This is known as a species preferred habitat.
What is a niche?
located near the equator, warm all year long,
tropical rainforest biome
These two features hold 68.7% of all fresh water on Earth.
What are glaciers and ice caps?
A carbon reservoir that stores more carbon than it releases is known as this. Also: name the largest one in the world.
What is a carbon sink? The Oceans.
This is the main nitrogen reservoir on Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This type of symbiosis benefits only one species, while harming the other.
What is parasitism?
This biome has the highest level of biodiversity and rainfall.
What is the tropical rainforest?
Found in warm, shallow waters
Made up of tiny animals that produce limestone to form a hard skeleton
Highlights a symbiotic relationship between coral and algae
Coral Reefs
Carbon enters the biotic world through these two processes.
What are photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?
Nitrogen fixation can be biotic or abiotic, serving to transform nitrogen into these two compounds.
What are ammonia and nitrates?
This type of symbiosis benefits only one species, without harming the other.
What is commensalism?
When precipitation totals are less than the temperatures on a climatograph, it indicates this is true about a biome.
What is extreme dryness? Ex: Desert, Taiga, Tundra.
Similar to wetlands
Contain trees whose roots are submerged in water
mangrove swamps are located either in estuaries or in shallow salt water areas
Located in tropical and subtropical areas
Mangrove Swamps
The only cycle that does not have a atmospheric biome phase.
The phosphorus cycle
This step in the Nitrogen cycle features plants taking in Nitrates.
What is assimilation?
competition occurs among individuals of the same species,
What is INTRAspecific?
This biome is influenced by marine weather and dependent on fire.
What is Chaparral / Scrubland?
This term for the rate of photosynthesis determines the amount of energy available in an ecosystem to support life.
What is productivity?
In addition to the burning of fossil fuels, these two processes also return carbon to the atmosphere.
What are cellular respiration and decay?
This step in the Nitrogen cycle returns it as a gas to the atmosphere.
What is denitirification?
competition occurs between individuals of different species
What is INTERspecific?
an impermeable, permanently frozen layer of soil
Permafrost
This species supply a large portion of the Oxygen of the planet and are found largely in the upper few hundred feet of bodies of water.
What are phytoplankton?
This substance in the Earth sequesters carbon, and it cannot be burned as a fossil fuel.
What is limestone?
These two steps in the Nitrogen cycle involve decomposers.
What are ammonification and nitrification?