Land Biomes
A geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features.
What is a biome?
PG. 777
Fast flowing water streams.
What is a river?
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The cause of creating new soil.
What are airborne spores?
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A waste from animals that farmers use for crops helps with eutrophication.
What is fertilizer?
PG. 800
These gradually change into another community.
What is ecological succession?
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The largest desert on Earth.
What is Antarctica?
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Places where light reaches the bottom.
What is a pond?
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These trees grew back after farming was done in New England.
What are white pine trees?
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What are nutrients?
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A stable community that goes through no more major ecological changes.
What is a climax community?
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Places where wheat, corn, and oats can grow.
What is a grassland?
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Waters where about one third of of North American bird species use for nesting.
What is a wetland?
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Spores that are carried on the wind through to settle on the rock.
What are lichen spores?
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Eutrophication is apart of this succession.
What is aquatic succession?
PG.800
It takes this amount of time to become a climax community.
What are hundreds of years?
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A frigid cold biome.
What is a tundra?
PG.783
Places where humans impact them with oil spills.
What is a coastal ocean?
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Things that fill up a pond or lake, causing the soil to harden over time.
What are sediments?
PG. 800
Eutrophication supports a large number of these organisms.
What are micro-organisms?
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This may remain the same when it goes through an ecological change.
What is plant diversity?
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A biomes biodiversity with chipmunks.
What are temperate deciduous forests?
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Places where sea cucumbers can be.
What are open oceans?
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The succession that would occur a volcano erupts.
What is primary succession?
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This decays to create nutrients.
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This grows last in a climax community.
What are trees?
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