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Land Biomes
Land Biomes
A biome where grasses are dominant?
grassland
A geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features.
Biome
An aquatic ecosystem that has a thin layer of water covering soil that is wet most of the time.
Wetland
The first species that colonizes new or undisturbed land.
pioneer species
A biome that is cold, dry, and treeless
Tundra
A measure of the mass of dissolved salts in a mass of water.
Salinity
A coastal area where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from seas or oceans.
Estuary
A stable community that no longer goes through major ecological changes.
Climax Community
A forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing evergreen trees.
Taiga
The term describing any region of Earth between the tropics and the polar circles.
Temperate
An underwater structure made from outside skeletons of tiny, soft-bodied animals.
Coral Reef
The process of one ecological community gradually changing into another.
Ecological Succession
A biome that receives very little rain.
Desert
The process of a body of water becoming nutrient-rich.
Eutrophication
The ocean shore between the lowest low tide and the highest high tide.
Intertidal Zone
Succession in new areas of land with little or no soil is _____________________ succession.
Primary
Forests that grow near the equator and receive large amounts of rain are ________________ rain forests.
Tropical
The living and nonliving parts of an environment together make up a(n)
Ecosystem
a type of ecosystem with water that has high salinity
open ocean
Succession in areas where existing ecosystems have been disturbed or destroyed is ____________________ succession.
secondary