Group of similar ecosystems with the same abiotic factors (climate) and plants and animals
What is a biome?
100
one species benefits more than the other species (host)
What is parasitism?
100
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
What is weather?
100
Three ways that waters are polluted.
What are pathogens, contaminants and thermal pollutants?
100
Three factors that affect the growth of populations
What is death, birth and migration?
200
Terrestrial and aquatic
What are the two major biomes?
200
one species benefits while a second species is neither helped nor injured
What is commensalism?
200
The average weather conditions in an area, including temperature and precipitation
What is climate?
200
The presence or introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.
What is air pollution?
200
Factors that depend on the population
What is density dependent factors
300
The biome that has a forest cover of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth with an average rainfall of 50 to 260 inches (125 to 660 cm.) annually.
What is a tropical rain forest?
300
both species benefit from the interaction
What is mutualism?
300
The major temperature zones are based on
What is latitude?
300
A greenhouse, which will eventually cause global temperatures to increase, which will clearly affect life on Earth by not only changing many existing climates, but also possibly raising sea level to a point of no return.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
factors that do not depend on the size of the population
What is density independent factors?
400
Big open areas that get between 25 and 75 cm of rain per year. These biomes are found on every continent except Antarctica.
What is a grassland?
400
Danger! That’s what the frantically flapping tail of a goby fish says to the near-blind snapping shrimp. Shrimps construct and maintain burrows in the seabed, while the fish stands guard. During construction, shrimps leave the burrow to deposit excavated sand.This relationship is
What is Mutualism?
400
The three major temperature zones
What is tropical, temperate and artic zones?
400
Natural forests are cleared through logging and/or burning, either to use the timber or to replace the area for alternative uses.
What is deforestation?
400
A change in the temperature
What is an example of a density independent factor?
500
They have fertile soils with a good amount of rain (30-60 inches a year). Plants and animals in this biome can live with big temperature changes throughout the year -- the changing seasons.
What is a temperate biome?
500
The mutual dependence between things.
What is interdependence?
500
The tilt of the Earth's axis is the reason for this?
What is seasons?
500
WHat is one major effort made by students in HPCMS to reduce water pollution
What is oyster restoration?
500
Disease is a factor that affects population growth