Types of Biomes
These forests cover much of south-eastern Canada, eastern United States, most of Europe, and parts of Asia and Australia. Many trees.
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Temperate Forest
This is the number of organisms per unit area.
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Population Density
This is when the last member of a species die.
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Extinction
Type of resources where natural processes replace them quicker than they are consumed.
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Renewable Resources
The gradual process of species becoming extinct
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Background Extinction
A tree-less biome with a with layer of permanently frozen soil below the surface called permafrost. It is located below the polar ice caps across Northern Europe, North America, and Siberia.
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Tundra
Pattern spacing of a population within an area?
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Dispersion
Variety in an ecosystem.
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Biodiversity
Resources that are found on Earth in limited amounts or that are replaced by natural processes over long periods of time?
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Non-renewable resources
When a large percentage of all living species become extinct in a short amount of time?
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Mass Extinction
These exist in every continent except for Europe. Some plants in this biome are cacti.
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Desert
This shows how fast a population grows.
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Population Growth Rate
Variety of genes that are present in a population.
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Genetic diversity
Using resources at a rate which they can be replaced.
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Sustainable use
Excessive use of species that have economic value.
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Overexploitation
Some plants in this biome include flowers and herbs. There is a lot of grass in this biome.
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Grassland
Number of individuals moving away from a population.
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Emigration
Number of different species and relative abundance of each species.
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Species diversity
Use of living organisms to detoxify a polluted area.
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Bioremediation
This occurs when the toxic concentration in organisms is increasing as the trophic levels increase as well.
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Biological Magnification
Africa contains most of this type of biome. Lions are a main animal in this biome
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Savanna
Number of individuals moving into a population.
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Immigration
Variety of ecosystems in a biosphere
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ecosystem diversity
Adding natural predators to a degraded ecosystem?
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Biological augmentation
These are the environmental effects that occur along the boundaries of an ecosystem.
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Edge effects