True or False: climate is the day to day condition of earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
False
100
True or False: If an organism's habitat is its address, its niche is its occupation.
true
100
True or False: The ability to survive and reproduce under conditions that differ from an organisms optimal conditions is called taiga.
False, that answer is tolerance.
100
True or False: Freshwater ecosystems can be divided into two main types: flowing water and standing water ecosystems.
True
100
True or False: Coral Reefs are named for the coral plants whose hard, calcium carbonate skeletons make up their primary structure.
False!!! I have told you a hundred times that coral is an animal!
200
What is the greenhouse effect?
The natural process in which heat is retained by the layer of gases.
200
What factors make up an organisms habitat?
Both biotic and abiotic factors.
200
What is a microclimate?
the climate in a small area that differs from the climate around it.
200
Aquatic systems are determined primarily by the depth. flow ____________ & ___________ of the overlying water.
temperature, chemistry
200
What are Kelp forests named for? what are they?
They are named for their dominant organism, a giant brown alga that grows at astonishing rates.
300
What are two of the greenhouse gases?
Carbon Dioxide, methane, water vapor, other atmospheric gases.
300
What states that no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time.
Competitive exclusion principle.
300
Each of these biomes is defined by a unique set of ____________- particularly climate- and a characteristic assemblage of plants and animals.
abiotic factors
300
Explain why photosynthesis is more likely to occur throughout the coastal ocean but only in a small part of the open ocean.
Because the sun can't go to the depths of the open ocean. It goes mostly to the bottom of the coastal ocean so plants can use photosynthesis.
300
Describe the benthic zone.
where the benthos live, or ocean floor animals live. Its the zone that extends horizontally along the ocean floor from the coastal ocean thru the open ocean. Made up of sea stars, anemones, and marine worms
400
What are the three main climate zones?
polar, temperate, tropical
400
Name two of the three classess that make up symbiosis.
Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism
400
What are two layers of the tropical rain forest?
canopy, understory,
400
What are the ocean zones that are based on light penetration?
photic and aphotic
400
How are standing water ecosystems alike?
water contains oxygen and nutrients.
How are they different? flowing water is moving, standing water has little net flow but circulates within.
500
Why does solar radiation strike different parts of Earth at an angle that varies throughout the year?
Earth is a sphere that is tilted on its axis.
500
What is ecological succession?
The series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time.
500
Identify this biome: mild moist air from the Pacific Ocean provides abundant rainfall for this biome, mild temperatures, giant redwoods, large herbivores.
Northwestern coniferous forest
500
What are the main divisions in the ocean based on depth and distance from shore?
Intertidal, coastal, open
500
Define a wetland or an estuary.
wetland- and ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for some of the year.
estuary- a wetland where the river meets the sea.