Terms
Factors/Zones
Succession
Biomes
Grab Bag
100
Any abiotic or biotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction, and distribution of organisms
What is a limiting factor?
100
Sunlight, climate, water, food, space
What are common Limiting Factors?
100
Forest fire, lava flow, tsunami
What are examples of natural events that may trigger the process of Succession?
100
A large group of ecosystems that share the same type of climax community
What is a Biome?
100
Two types of Succession
What are Primary and Secondary?
200
grass, weeds, beetles, other insects, earthworms, and grubs
What are examples of populations?
200
The ability of an organism to withstand fluctuations or changes in abiotic and biotic environmental factors
What is Tolerance?
200
A lichen and an annual grass are examples of these.
What are pioneer species?
200
Type of biome for most of the water on planet Earth
What is Marine/Oceanic?
200
Marine and Fresh Water
What are the two major types of Aquatic Biomes?
300
A collection of interacting populations that inhabit a common area
What is a Community?
300
Portion of the Marine Biome where photosynthesis can take place
What is the Photic Zone?
300
The colonization of barren land by communities of organisms
What is Primary Succession?
300
The two major types of Biomes or Ecosystems
What are aquatic and terrestrial?
300
Approximate percentage of the Earth's surface covered with water?
What is 75%?
400
A stable mature community that undergoes little or no change in the number of species
What is a Climax Community?
400
The size of this zone depends upon the slope of the land and the difference between the high and low tides.
What is the Intertidal Zone?
400
Orderly natural changes and species replacements that take place in the communities of an ecosystem
What is Succession?
400
Biomes located on land
What are Terrestrial Biomes?
400
Ecosystem dominated by salt-tolerant smooth cordgrass, salt-marsh hay or eelgrass containing organisms that feed on decaying, suspended materials
What is a Salt Marsh Ecosystem?
500
When an organism receives too much or too little of some environmental factor
What are the limits of an organism's Tolerance?
500
Salinity, depth, availabilty of light, and temperature
What are abiotic factors for the Oceans?
500
Arrange the following in proper sequence: Climax Community, Primary Succession, Secondary Succession
What is Prmary Succession, Secondary Succession, Climax Community?
500
Tundra, Taiga, Desert, Rainforest, Grassland, Marine
What are examples of Biomes?
500
It is a combination of minerals, decayed organisms, water, and air.
What is Soil?
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