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Ecological Succession
Terrestrial
Freshwater
Marine
Transitional
100
What is any abiotic or biotic factor that limits restricts the numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms?
Limiting Factor
100
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a specific place and time?
Weather
100
What are three types of freshwater ecosystems?
Rivers, ponds, lakes.
100
What is the narrow band where the ocean meets land called?
The Intertidal Zone
100
Estuaries and wetlands are similar because they both support the same type of ___________?
Aquatic plants.
200
The ability of an organism to survive when subjected to abiotic or biotic factors is called?
Tolerance
200
What are the limiting factors that define biomes on Earth?
Temperature and Precipitation
200
What are free-floating photosynthetic autotrophs that live in freshwater or marine ecosystems?
Plankton.
200
The pelagic zone is split into which two zones?
Aphotic and Photic zones.
200
What are three examples of wetlands?
Marshes, bogs, swamps.
300
The change in an ecosystem that happens when one community replaces another as a result of changing factors is called?
Ecological Succession
300
What terrestrial biome houses the greatest biodiversity?
Tropical Rain Forest
300
Explain the profundal zone.
The deepest area of a large lake where little light penetrates. Cold and low in oxygen with limited numbers of species living there.
300
Which zone of the ocean is very cold, receives little to no light, and in which all organisms depend on food material that sinks down from above?
Abyssal Zone
300
Explain what an estuary is.
The ecosystem that forms where freshwater from a river or stream merges with salt water from the ocean.
400
Occurs after a volcanic eruption?
Primary Succession
400
Which biome gets very little precipitation and is cold year round?
Tundra
400
What is the open water area that is well lit and is dominated by planton?
The limnetic zone.
400
Iron is what kind of factor for marine plankton?
Limiting Factor
400
Many species of marine fishes and invertebrates use estuaries as _____________ for their young.
Nurseries.
500
Occurs after a forest fire?
Secondary Succession
500
What are the nine major terrestrial biomes?
Tundra, Boreal Forest, Temperate Forest, Temperate woodland & Shrubland, Temperate Grassland, Desert, Tropical Savanna, Tropical Seasonal Forest, Rainforest
500
Where is the majority of the freshwater on the planet stored?
Frozen in glaciers.
500
What are the four vertical zones of an intertidal zone?
Low-tide zone, Mid-tide zone, High-tide zone, spray zone.
500
Which type of transitional aquatic ecosystem rival the biodiversity of a tropical rain forest?
Estuary.