Aquatic Biomes
Terrestrial Biomes
Forestry
Climate
Review
100
measure of the relative clarity of a material
What is a turbity?
100
an area that shares a combination of avg, yearly temp. & precipitation (climate)
What is biome
100
Cutting all the trees in a given area.
What is clear cutting.
100
The amount of solar radiation reaching an area?
What is insolation?
100
Eutrophication
What is excess nitrate and phosphates cause increased algal growth
200
Intertidal Zone
Area of land between low and high tide
200
What are 5 examples of biomes?
200
Three impacts of clear cutting.
Soil erosion, increased soil and stream temperature, flooding and landslides.
200
The tilt of the Earth causes variation in these three things.
What are length of day, angle of insolation, and season.
200
To make or form (sloping land) into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps.
Net Primary Productivity
300
What are the four characteristics of aquatic biomes?
Temperature, Salinity, Depth, and Flow
300
The three main types of forest biomes
What are Tropical, Temperate and Boreal (taiga) forests?
300
Three benefits of forests.
What are carbon sinks as trees take in C02 from the atmosphere, habitat for organisms, and filtering air pollutants?
300
What are three impacts of El Nino?
Trade winds weaken, then reverse (W → E)
Warm eq. current brings heat & precip. to Americas (N & S)
Suppressed upwelling off SA coast (damaging fi$herie$)
Cooler, drier conditions in Australia & SE Asia
H pressure in west pacific (Australia & SE Asia)
L pressure in east pacific (SA)
300
The increase in the amount of toxins as you move up a food chain.
What is biomagnification.
400
Describe the mutualistic relationships with coral?
Coral and Algae.. Algae photosynthesis for the coral providing food and oxygen, coral provide shelter and CO2 for algae.
400
Choose Three Biomes and three characteristics of each one.
400
The difference between surface fires and crown fires
What is surface fires spread with a flaming front and burn leaf litter, fallen branches and other fuels located at ground level. Crown fires burn through the top layer of foliage on a tree, known as the canopy or crown fires?
400
Describe the Rain Shadow Effect
400
The four types of ecosystem services.
What is a provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting.
500
What is an example of a Wetland and describe two benefits of them?
Marsh. Bog, Swamp
Stores excess water during storms, lessening floods
Recharges groundwater by absorbing rainfall into soil
Roots of wetland plants filter pollutants from water draining through
Highly plant growth due to lots of water & nutrients (dead organic matter) in sediments
500
What biome is attributed to the highest NPP?
Tropical Rainforest
500
What are two of the benefits to prescribed burns?
Reduces dead biomass that fuels fires and helps with nutrients cycling.
500
Describe how the Hadley cell influences the Easter Trade Winds.
Warm air at the equator rises, cools, expands leading to rain fall, the air cools and falls back to Earth with little moisture is at the higher pressure of 30 due the Coriolos effect and then moves back to the low pressure at the equator causing the Eastern Trade Winds (MOve E-W)
Moves Ocean Current clockwise N Hemisphere and Counter Clockwise S Hemispehre
500
These are the layers of soil, in order, with a very short description of each
What is O (organic material), A (topsoil), E (elevated horizon), B (subsoil), C (parent material), R (bedrock)?