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How Ecosystems Change
Biomes
Biomes
Biomes/
Ecosystems
Vocab
100
succession that begins with soil
What is secondary succession?
100
primary animals: artic hares, reindeer, caribou, snow owls
What is the tundra?
100
Primary animal: Kangaroo Rat
What is the desert
100
flowing fershwater environments
What are rivers and streams?
100
a region that is wet for all or most of the year
What is a wetland?
200
succession that begins without soil
What is primary succession?
200
Primary plants: deciduous trees that lose their leaves
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
200
Primary plant: douglas fir, red cedar, spruce
What is a temperate rain forest?
200
large geographic areas that have similar climates and ecosystems
What are biomes?
200
a community that has reached a stable stage of ecological succession
What is a climax community?
300
succession that takes the longest
What is primary succession?
300
primary animals: moose, lynx, shrews, bears, foxes
What is the tiaga?
300
Primary Animals: black bear, cougar, bobcat, spotted owl
What is a temperate rain forest?
300
home to organisms adapted to dramatic changes in temperature, moisture, and salinity
What is an intertidal zone?
300
water ecosystem formed from the calcium carbonate shells secreted by a particular animal
What is a coral reef?
400
a community that has reached a stable stage of ecological succession
What is a climax community?
400
Primary plants: Grasses and grains
What are grasslands?
400
Most diverse animals
What is tropical rain forest?
400
extremely fertile, productive enviromnemts that is an exchange of fresh and salt water
What are estuaries?
400
the first living things in a disturbed environment, such as lichens
What is a pioneer species
500
a general name for the first species to grow after a volcanic eruption covers an area with lava
What is a pioneer species?
500
Primary plants: cactus
What is the desert?
500
Good for growing crops, grazing cattle and sheep
What are grasslands?
500
open oceans, coral reefs
What are salt water ecosystems?
500
the area where a river meets an ocean and contains a mixture of freshwater and saltwater
What is an estuary?