Biomes
The biome that consists of snow, ice, and permafrost.
What is tundra?
A group of organisms of one type that live in the same area.
What is a population?
Define abiotic factors
What is non-living things in an ecosystem
All the water parts of the Earth
Hydrosphere
The amount of a species that can consistently be supported in a habitat.
What is Carrying Capacity?
The most diverse biome.
What is tropical rainforest?
What level of organization would this be?
Deer, insects, fungi, wood, bunnies
What is community?
Define ecology
What is the study of how living organisms interact with each other and their non-living environment.
True or False: The biosphere extends into all the other spheres
True
Define and provide an example of environmental pressures.
Limiting factors that act depending on how densely populated an area is.
Ex: predators
Name one country that contains a taiga/boreal.
What is Canada/Russia?
What is the correct order of the levels of organization from the smallest level to the largest level?
What is Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biosphere?
Define chapparal
A dense-shrub dominated ecosystem nearing drought found in Mediterranean climates.
Identify the gases found in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor
More moderate population growth, limited resources available.
What is Logistic growth?