Intro to Environmental
A living beings present in the world
What is a biotic factor
The two types of ecosystems
What are Aquatic and Terrestrial
NOAA's three categories of weather
What is precipitation, obscuration, and "other" phenomena
The study of relationships between organisms and their environment and the balances between
What is Ecology
The five oceans found on our world
What is the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Indian
The average conditions over a long periods of time in a given area
Exist in saltwater
What is marine
Any form of water particle that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground
What is precipitation
Any substance an organism needs to survive and thrive
What is a resource
Movements of Ocean water in continuous flow
The biggest difference between the tropical rain forest and the tropical dry forest
The four amin types of terrestrial ecosystems
What are forest, desert, mountain, and grassland
This gives hurricanes their strength to rotate
What is the Coriolis effect
The study of interactions among species
What is community ecology
Water current that rotates in two different currents
What is the Indian Ocean Current
The biome that we are found in
What is the temperate forest
Makes up 29% of the world's forest cover
Atmospheric moisture
The study of how living organisms interact with non living environment within a specific area
What is ecosystem ecology
Ocean that is warming 4x's faster than any other place
What is the Arctic Ocean
This type of animal is most popular in the desert
Plants that tolerate the salinity changes
What is a halophytic plant
Three things that classify a blizzard
The natural environment where a specific organism lives
What is a habitat
This Oceans seafloor is seismically active, sending earthquakes and tsunamis across the continents/countries in the area