Land Biomes
Aquatic Ecosystems
Ecosystems
Climate

Homeostasis In Communities
100
A desert.
What is a biome that receives practically no precipatation. Animals include rabbits, coyotes, and lizards?
100
Marine biome
What is biome is made up of coral reefs, estuaries, and oceans?
100
Biomes
What are lands that have ecologically similar climate conditions?
100
latitude, terrain, altitude, ice or snow cover,and nearby bodies of water
What affects climate?
100
Succession
What is the process of the replacement of one community by another as environmental conditions change called?
200
A tundra
What is a place where the subsoil is permafrost and tree growth is limited due to very low temperatures?
200
The aquatic biome
Which biome covers most of the earth?
200
Tolerance
What is the ability to withstand fluctuations in biotic and abiotic environmental factors?
200
a monsoon
What is a seasonal wind that lasts for several months, bringing in a region's rainy season?
200
body temperature
What does homeostasis control?
300
a grassland
What is a biome that is very dry and doesn't get more than 100 cm. per year?
300
wetlands
What are areas of standing water that support aquatic plants?
300
ecological succession
What is the replacement of one community by another as environmental conditions change?
300
the earth's tilt and the sun's radiation
What causes the seasons?
300
animals and plants may change
How do ecosystems change?
400
tropical rain forest
What is a biome that is usually found around the equator. It is a warm wetland.
400
estuaries
What are areas where freshwater streams and rivers connect with the ocean?
400
Pioneer species
What is the first organism to colonize a new area called?
400
The moderate climate zone between the polar zones and the trophics
What is the temperate zone?
400
natural selection
What is the process in which heritable traits make it more likely for an organism to survive?
500
a taiga
What is a biome that is usually cold and gets a lot of snow?
500
Animals like snakes, lizards, and birds.
What do wetlands give a habitat to?
500
a food chain
What is the representative of the eating relationships between species within an ecosystem?
500
The Koppen Climate Classification System
What is most widely used for classifying the world's climates?
500
Claude Bernard
Who invented the concept of homeostasis?
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