Biomes
Contain drought resistant plants and are typically found at 30 degrees N and 30 degrees S latitudes.
What are deserts?
The movement of water toward the surface of the ocean due to diverging currents
What is upwelling?
This is the layer of earth's atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
An individual's ability to survive and reproduce
What is fitness?
The three major types of population distribution patterns
What are random, uniform, and clumped?
Found in the northermost Northern Hemisphere and is characterized by permafrost.
What is Tundra?
A region with dry conditions found on the leeward side of a mountain range as the result of humid winds causing precipitation on the windward side.
What is the rain shadow effect?
Increased precipitation at the Intertropical Convergence Zone is caused by an increase in evaporation here.
What is the equator?
A trait that increases an individual's fitness is know as this term.
What is an adaptation?
For Gause's experiments with paramecium populations, this was the major limiting factor.
What is food?
Warm and wet biome that is located between 20 degrees N and S of the equator
What is tropical rainforest?
The percentage of incoming solar energy that is reflected by a surface.
What is albedo?
The percentage of incoming sunlight reflected from a surface.
What is albedo?
The development of new species is known as this.
What is speciation?
Denoted as K, this value is the limit of how many individuals in a population the environment can sustain.
The shallow zone of lakes where most algae and emergent plants grow.
What is the littoral zone?
This causes seasonal changes in climate.
What is the tilt of the earth?
This biome tolerates cold winters and a short growing season and contains coniferous evergreen trees.
What is the boreal forest (or taiga)?
The range of abiotic and biotic conditions under which a species actually lives is known as this.
What is a realized niche?
An oyster exemplifies this type of survivorship curve.
What is Type III?
The phenomenon where algae inside corals deplete and die.
The Northern Lights are the product of solar radiation energizing gases of this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Thermosphere?
This biome contains more biodiversity per hectare than any other terrestrial biome.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The three types of biodiversity
What are ecosystem diversity, species diversity, and genetic diversity?
What is the competitive exclusion principle?