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Land Biomes
Aquatic Ecosystems
Succession
Natural Resources
Miscellaneous
100
The two abiotic factors that most influence a biome.
What are temperature and rainfall?
100
Three abiotic factors that classify an aquatic ecosystem.
What are speed of moving water, water depth, and salinity?
100
Occurs in areas where no or very little soil is present.
What is primary succession?
100
Beacuse fossils fuels are used quicker than they can be made they are considered this type of resource.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
100
The two conditions that determine the types of plants that can live in area.
What are climate and soil conditions?
200
A biome that has trees and four distinct seasons.
What is a deciduous forest biome?
200
Large aquatic ecosystem that has inlets and outlets but water that does not flow.
What is a lake?
200
A species that breaks down a harsh environment and makes it more suitable for new communities.
What is a pioneer species?
200
The source of energy for hydroelectric power?
What is running water?
200
Organisms that form the base of an ocean food chain.
What are plankton?
300
A land biome with the sandiest soil.
What is a desert?
300
Areas where bodies of freshwater and salt water meet.
What are estuaries?
300
The gradual change from a small pond to a meadow.
What is aquatic succession?
300
Solar energy and wind are considered this type of resource because they can never be used up.
What is an inexhaustible resourece?
300
A possible human health risk resulting from the use of chloroflorocarbons (cfc).
What is skin cancer?
400
A palm tree in a tropical rainforest: An oak tree in a
What is a temperate decidous forest?
400
Freshwater biomes with running water.
What are rivers and streams?
400
A stable community in which succession appears to have ended.
What is a climax community?
400
Heat energy produced in Earth's crust.
What is geothermal energy?
400
The addition of nitric acid and sulfuric acid into the atmosphere as a result of buring fossil fuels has created this form of air pollution.
What is acid rain?
500
Temperatures are warm all year; average rainfall amounts are high; food, water and shelter are plentiful
What are traits of a tropical rainforest?
500
Aquatic biome that has zones where light cannot reach.
What is the ocean?
500
The most likely sequence of succession for the following speices: Bushes, Trees, Weeds
What is weeds, bushes, trees?
500
A human action that can reduce the amount of fossil fuels being burned by cars.
What is carpooling, taking public transportation, or riding a bike?
500
Part of this organism's niche is to secrete acid that is used to turn rock into a hospitable habitat.
What is a lichen?