Vocabulary
includes all life on Earth, from bacteria underground, to trees in rain forests, fish in the oceans, and mold spores in the air.
What is the Biosphere?
Is an ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface for at least part of the year.
What is a wetland ?
Get at least 2 meters of rain annually. Tall trees form a dense, leafy covering called a canopy.
What is a tropical rain forest?
Formed by unequal distribution of heat and rotation of the earth on its axis.
What are global winds?
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
What is a species ?
different populations that live together in a defined area
What is a community?
Shows the average temperature and precipitation of a given location during each month of the year.
What is a climate Diagram?
In tropical rainforest this layer is composed of shorter trees and vines
What is the understory?
The main force that shapes climate.
What is Solar Energy?
This zone is warm or hot.
What is the tropical zone?
The average of temperature, precipitation, clouds, and wind over many years.
What is Climate ?
are shaped by latitude, the transport of heat, and moisture by winds and ocean currents and by geographic features such as mountain ranges, large bodies of water and ocean currents.
What are regional climates?
Have cold winters and warm summers. Home to conifers.
What is a temperate forest?
Blowing over the ocean create surface currents that profoundly affect weather and climate and costal areas.
A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms.
Consists of all Earth's fresh water and salt water, including water vapor and rain in the atmosphere and water underground.
What is the hydrosphere ?
Are driven and shaped by patterns if warming and cooling, by winds and by the locations of continents.
What are Ocean Currents?
Boreal forests are also known as this____________.
What is known as taiga?
___________need enough solar energy to complete photosynthesis.
What are phytoplankton?
What is the temperate zone?
All the organisms that live in a place, together with their physical environment
What is an Ecosystem?
Serve as spawning and nursery grounds for many ecologically and commercially important fish and shellfish.
What is an Estuary?
Dark zone where photosynthesis cannot occur.
What is the aphotic zone?
Involves changes in temperature clouds, winds, patterns, and amounts of precipitation and the frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
What is climate change?
Are produced by unequal distribution of solar energy across Earth's surface.
What are climate zones?