Climate and Soil
This is the most fertile part of the soil
What is organic horizon?
Biomes where annual rainfall is <30cm
What is a desert?
The tilting of the Earth and its position to the Sun is responsible for these events
What are seasons?
Photosynthetic rates and nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems are affected by these two factors
What is light and circulation?
Metabolic rates and enzyme activities are sensitive to this factor
What is temperature?
Excessive use of this practice had drained soil nutrients
What is agriculture?
A biome that has alternating wet and dry seasons, rich soil prone to leaching, and host animals like asian elephants and monkeys
What is a tropical dry forest?
These titular circulation cells are responsible for these cold deserts at the poles.
What are Polar cells?
Refers to the sinking of cold, high density water and the rising of warmer, nutrient rich water
What is a thermohaline circulation?
A plant adjusting their CO2 uptake in accordance to the temperature is an example of this
What is accilmation?
Responsible for the rightward/leftward deflection of wind due to the Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Temperate grasslands and chaparral greatly benefit from this type of disturbance
What is fire?
Biome characterized by 25-45cm annual rainfall, fragile soil, and host plants like toyon
What is chaparral?
Organisms at this level are adapted for desiccation, predator escape, and hard shells
What is the high tide?
Shivering, sweating, and non-shivering thermogenesis are characteristic traits of these type of terrestrial organisms
What are terrestrial endotherms?
This habitat is the result of when the temperature line is above the precipitation line and evaporation exceeds moisture availability
What is a dry habitat?
The lumber industry had devastated these four biomes.
What are taiga, deciduous, coniferous, and rainforest biomes?
These species rely on moving their wing muscles to generate heat and the Sun to raise their body temperature
What are insects?
This type of event features high biological productivity, but consequently results in anoxic condition of lakes
What is eutrophic lakes?
These types of aquatic species rely on blubber, countercurrent exchange in their flippers, and/or thick fur to keep warm
What are endothermic aquatic species?
These organisms grow best at when the precipitation line is above the temperature line
What is a plant?
This biome has this type of soil: infertile, acidic, slow decomposition, thin topsoil
What is Boreal Forest: Taiga?
Refers to when the enzymatic/photosynthetic rates of an organism is that its best and is dependent on the temperature
What is enzyme optima?
This phenomenon was the result of increased water temperature and the subsequent loss of symbiotic algae on corals
What is coral bleaching?
These animals with this particular TNZ range can tolerate changes in their environment without expending too much metabolic rates
What is a broad TNZ?