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Community
Succession
Aquatic Biomes
Terrestrial Biomes
Misc.
100
Interacting populations in a certain place at a certain time.
What is a community?
100
First species in an area
Pioneer species
100
This biome covers 73% of the earth
Marine biome
100
A treeless land with long summer days and short periods of winter sunlight. Often covered in snow.
What is the tundra?
100
A large group of ecosystems that share the same type of climax community.
What is a biome?
200
Range of changes in biotic and abiotic factors that organisms can withstand. Often times a bell curve.
What is a range of tolerance?
200
A stable, mature community that undergoes little or no changes in species.
What is climax community?
200
The portion of the marine biome that is shallow enough for sunlight to penetrate through.
What is a photic zone?
200
An arid region with little plant life and little precipitation.
What is the desert?
200
Major food source in the marine biome.
Plankton
300
Any biotic or abiotic factor that limits the population from growing too large.
What is a limiting factor?
300
The sequence of changes that take place after an existing community is disrupted in some way
What is secondary succession?
300
A coastal body of water, usually surrounded by land, where freshwater and salt water mix.
What is an estuary?
300
Large communities covered with rich soil, grasses, and similar plants.
What is the grassland?
300
Portion of the ground that is permanently frozen.
Permafrost
400
What is the Y axis of range of tolerance?
Population
400
Colonization of land where no other organisms existed before.
What is a primary succession?
400
Deep water that never recieves sunlight.
What is the aphotic zone?
400
Warm temperatures, wet weather, and a lot of plant growth/
What is the tropical rainforest?
400
Give an example for an autotrophic plankton and a heterotrophic plankton.
diatoms and juvenile fish
500
What are some limiting factors for a tuna fish?
Seawater, food, predation, humans, etc
500
Compare and contrast primary and secondary succession.
Similarity: both are colonization of organisms Difference: primary - empty land and secondary - land previously wiped by an accident
500
The portion of the shorline that lies between the high and low tide lines.
What is an intertidal zone?
500
Also known as northern coniferous forest. It is covered in larch, fir, hemlock, and spruce trees.
What is the taiga?
500
List all eight types of biomes we learned in this chapter.
Marine, freshwater, tundra, taiga, desert, temperate forest, rainforest, and grassland