Biomes
Ability to survive and reproduce under condition that differ their optimal conditions
What is tolerance in plants and animals?
Most common standing water ecosystems
What are ponds and Lakes?
Refers to the average year-to-year condition in a particular region
What is Climate?
Organism has a Niche
What is an Organism's occupation?
The temperature of this animals body temperature goes up and down depending on the water and air.
What is a bullfrog?
The climate in a small area that differs from the climate around
What is a microclimate?
Water covers the soil or present at the surface of the soil for part of the year
What is a Wetland?
Polar, Temperature, and tropical zones
What are the three main climate zones?
Physical or nonliving factors that shape ecosystems
What are Abiotic factors?
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This can be found on all Continents
What are Mountain Ranges?
Two main types of freshwater ecosystems
What are flowing water and standing water ecosystems?
Strikes earth at a very low angle
What are Polar zones?
Competition, predation, and various forms symbiosis can powerfully effect and ecosystem
What is community Interactions?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph
What are the names of Santa's Reindeers?
This borders the tundra and is cold year around
What are Polar Caps?
A giant brown Alga that can grow at extraordinary rates
What is a Kelp Forest?
North Pole is located at what direction and degrees
What is North and 90 degrees?
The first species to populate an area
What is Pioneer Species?
Born sometime around 280 A.D
Who is Saint Nicolas(Santa Claus)?
This Biome has less than 25 centimeters of precipitation annually
What is the Desert?
Begins at the edge of the continental shelf and extends outward
What is the open ocean?
The natural situation in which heat is retained by this layer of greenhouse gases
What is the greenhouse effect?
Community Interactions tend to restore the ecosystem to its original condition
What is Secondary succession?
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