This is especially important in determining the characteristics of a biome.
What is CLIMATE
100
Can be divided into two main types: flowing-water ecosystems and standing water ecosystems
What is FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS
100
The day-to-day condition on Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is WEATHER
100
The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions.
What is NICHE
100
Physical, or nonliving, factors that shape ecosystems.
What is ABIOTIC FACTORS
200
Name 2 of the world's major land biomes.
What is TROPICAL RAIN FOREST, TROPICAL DRY FOREST, TROPICAL SAVANNA, DESERT, TEMPERATE GRASSLAND, TEMPERATE WOODLAND AND SHRUBLAND, TEMPERATE FOREST, NORTHWESTERN CONIFEROUS FOREST, BOREAL FOREST, TUNDRA
200
Wetlands formed where rivers meet the sea.
What is ESTUARIES
200
Refers to the average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region.
What is CLIMATE
200
Community interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism.
What is PREDATION
200
One member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is COMMENSALISM
300
This biome is home to more species than all other land biomes combined
What is TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
300
Has a photic zone and aphotic zone. Also divided into zones such as intertidal zone, the coastal ocean and the open ocean.
What is MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
300
Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and a few other atmospheric gases trap heat energy and maintain Earth's temperature range.
What is THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
300
Community interaction that occurs when organisms of the same or different species attempt to use an ecological resource in the same place at the same time.
What is COMPETITION
300
The tiny, free-floating or weakly swimming organisms that live in both freshwater and salt water environments.
What is PLANKTON
400
Receive more seasonal rainfall than desserts but less than tropical dry forests, wildlife includes: lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, elephants, giraffes, zebras.
What is TROPICAL SAVANNA
400
A permanently dark zone where chemosynthetic autotrophs are the only producers that can survive.
What is APHOTIC ZONE
400
Name two factors that combine to produce weather and climate.
What is PRECIPITATION, TEMPERATURE, OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
400
Any relationship in which two species live closely together is called symbiosis. What are the 3 symbiotic relationships?
What is MUTUALISM, COMMENSALISM, PARASITISM
400
Particular physical environment that contains a characteristics assemblage of plants and animals.
What is BIOME
500
This biome has mild temperatures, abundant precipitation during fall, winter, and spring. Plants include: Douglas fir, Sitka spruce, western hemlock, and redwood. Wildlife: bears, owls, bobcats, deer.
What is NORTHWESTERN CONIFEROUS FOREST
500
Zone on the ocean floor that contains organisms that live attached to or near the bottom, such as sea stars, anemones, an marine worms.
What is BENTHIC ZONE
500
As a result of differences in latitude and thus the angle of heating, Earth has 3 different climate zones. What are the three climate zones?
What is POLAR ZONES, TEMPERATE ZONES, TROPICAL ZONES
500
Ecosystems are constantly changing in response to natural and human disturbances. As an ecosystem changes, older inhabitants gradually die out and new organisms move in, causing further changes in the community. This series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time is?
What is ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
500
Temperate-zone estuaries dominated by salt-tolerant grasses above the low-tide line, and by seagrasses under water.