Unit 1 - Ecology
Lakes, rivers, coral reefs, open oceans are included in this biome category.
What are Aquatic Biomes?
The development of an ecosystem on newly formed land.
Natural ecosystems are not tilled or chemically treated, maintaining healthy soils without synthetic inputs.
Heat from underneath Earth's crust is used to make steam. Steam turns a turbine connected to a generator to produce electricity.
What is Geothermal Energy?
Wind moves blades of a windmill which spins a turbine connected to a generator to produce electricity?
What is wind energy?
Any ecosystem where the ground is covered with water either permanently or seasonally. They often transition ecosystems between terrestrial and aquatic biomes.
What is wetlands?
Succession happens when an ecosystem experiences a major disturbance
What is a secondary succession?
One method of polycropping involving planting trees alongside crops.
The remains of plants and animals that died millions of years ago.
What are fossil fuels?
Leaving plant residues on the field after harvest protects the soil from erosion, helps retain moisture, and adds organic matter back into the soil.
What is Covering the soil? (Crop Residues)
A measurement of the variety of biological life in an ecosystem.
Soil lost by erosion will follow the rest of the flowing water down the watershed. Nutrients in the soil will feed algae, causing algal blooms on the surface
What is Eutrophication?
When soil is left bare for extended period of time, it can lead to the land degrading into desert-like conditions, reducing its ability to support life.
What is desertification?
Water turns a turbine connected to a generator which makes electricity.
What is Hydroelectric power?
Limestone, Dolomite, and Marble are examples.
What are Carbonate Rocks?
What are Estuaries?
refers to how much water soil can retain
What is water holding capacity?
Some benefits include natural fertilizer, herbicide and plowing alternatives, and diversification of income for food produces.
Concentrates sunlight to produced heat, to make steam which turns a turbine connected to a generator to produce electricity.
Large areas with distinct climate, vegetation, and animal life.
What are biomes?
The measure of how much photosynthesis is happening in an area.
A crucial mutualistic organism in healthy soils, present in 80% of terrestrial plants
What is Mycorrhizal fungi?
Planting a single crop species reduces biodiversity and can make the ecosystem more vulnerable to pets and diseases.
What is Monocropping?
Produce electricity by using the heat from a nuclear chain reaction to produce steam.
What is a nuclear reactor?
Very constant temperature, large amount of precipitation, characterized by a continuous tree canopy, and extremely high diversity of species.
What are rainforests?