What biome is home to cactus, jackrabbits, and roadrunners?
Desert
100
temperate forest
What biome is home to oak, maple, elm, and birch trees? It recieves 70-150 cm of rainfall a year.
100
primary
What type of succession occurs when there is colonization of barren land by communities of organisms?
100
Estuary
What biome occures where freshwater and saltwater meet?
100
Plankton
What is the basis of all aquatic food chains? (They are made up of microorganisms and juvenile animals.)
200
What biome lies along the equator and recieves over 200cm of rainfall annually?
Tropical Rainforst
200
Tropical rainforest
What biome's top layer is called the canopy?
200
Secondary
What type of succession is the sequence of changes when an existing community is severely disrupted?
200
Freshwater
What biome includes fish, amphibians, insects, and cat tails?
200
Tolerance
What is ability of an organism to withstand fluctuations in biotic and abiotic environmental factors ?
300
Tiaga
What biome is home to spruce, fir, moose, and lynx?
300
permafrost
What is permanently frozen ground called?
300
pioneer species
What is the first species to take hold in an area?
300
Marine
What biome includes the photic, aphotic, and intertidal zones?
300
Limiting factor
What is any biotic or abiotic factor that resrticts the existance, numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms?
400
Tundra
What biome encircles the north pole and northern latitudes? It is also home to caribou and reindeer.
400
Desert
What biome recieves the lowest amount of annual precipitation?
400
climax community
What is a stable mature community that undergoes little to no change?
400
Photic zone
What is the part of the marine biome that is shallow enough for light to penetrate?
400
intertidal zone
What is the zone of the marine biome that lies between low and high tide lines?
500
Grassland
What biome contains many species wild grasses and flowers. It is also home to bison and prairie dogs in the United States.
500
Temperate forest
What biome covers much of the eastern U.S. and is home to black bears and squirrels?
500
Secondary
A brush fire burns an area north of Jerome. Over a few years, new plants come in populate the area. Is this an example of primary or secondary succession?
500
Marine
What is largest biome on Earth?
500
Biome
What is a large group of ecosystems that share the same type of climax community?