The Role of Climate
4-1
What Shapes An Ecosystem?
4-2
Land Biomes
4-3
Aquatic Ecosystems
4-4
REGENTS
100
The day-to-day condition of earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
What is WEATHER?
100
Biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem
What are BIOTIC FACTORS?
100
A particular physical environment that contains a characteristic assemblage of plants and animals
What is a BIOME?
100
A tiny, free-floating or weakly swimming organism that lives in both salt and freshwater environments
What is PLANKTON?
100
The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature in a region
What is CLIMATE?
200
The average year-after-year conditions in a particular region of the earth
What is CLIMATE?
200
Physical, or nonliving factors, that shape ecosystems
What are ABIOTIC FACTORS?
200
The climate within a small area that differs significantly from the climate around it
What is a MICROCLIMATE?
200
An ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface for part of the year
What is a WETLAND?
200
This has the greatest effect on determing the climate of a region
What is DISTANCE FROM EQUATOR?
300
This is when certain gases get trapped in earth's atmosphere, heating up regions
What is THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT?
300
The area in which an organism lives
What is a HABITAT?
300
A layer of permanently frozen subsoil
What is PERMAFROST?
300
Organisms that live attached to or near the bottom of the ocean floor, such as sea stars, anemones, and marine worms
What are BENTHOS?
300
Abiotic and abiotic factors and place in the food web
What is a NICHE?
400
Carbon Dioxide, water vapor, methane
What are GREENHOUSE GASES?
400
The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way it uses these conditions
What is a NICHE?
400
Tropical rain forest and tropical dry forest
What are the two types of TROPICAL FOREST?
400
Flowing-water ecosystems and standing-water ecosystems
What are FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS?
400
This is where you will most likely find algae growing
What is a PHOTIC ZONE?
500
The polar zone, the temperature zone, and the tropical zone
What are earth's three main climate zones?
500
Competition, predation, and various forms of symbiosis
What are INTERACTIONS WITHIN COMMUNITIES?
500
Tropical rain forest, tropical dry forest, tropical savanna, desert, temperate grassland, temperate woodland and shrubland, temperate forest, northwestern coniferous forest, boreal forest, and tundra
What are the 10 MAJOR LAND BIOMES?
500
Intertidal zone, coastal ocean, and open ocean
What are the OCEAN ZONES?
500
The burning of fossil fuels causes more of this
What is CARBON DIOXIDE?
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