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Largest biome. Covers 3/4ths of the earth. The circulation patterns in the open ocean are horizontal ocean currents that affect the upper surface waters, but the vertical circulation of open ocean water masses may be more important for marine life. There are two types of vertical circulation of ocean water masses: upwelling and thermohaline. In upwelling, deep ocean water rich in dissolved nutrients moves up the continental slope into coastal surface waters, aided by offshore wind patterns. The nutrient-rich waters encourage the growth of plankton, which serves as the base for the food chain throughout the oceans. In thermohaline circlulation, differences in the termperature, density, and salinity of ocean water masses cause the nutrient-rich deep ocean water to rise and mix with suface waters. Thermohaline circulation is restricted to polar regions of the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is marine biome?
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The scientific study of the interactions between organisms and their environment. It is closely linked to evolutionary biology. It contains Abotic(non-living), biotic(living organisms)
What is ecology?
100
climate is very warm, it has an average annual temperature of greater than 20 degrees celsius. They also have very little seasonal variation in temperature or day length, which is very favorable for plant growth. The tropical rainforest's temperature ranges from 20 to 25 degrees celsius and they have more than 250 centimeters of annual rainfall. The main climate control of the biome are latitude.
What is a tropical rainforest?
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An association between organisms of two different species in which each member benefits
What is mutualism?
100
a renewable energy source, is biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms,[1] such as wood, waste, and alcohol fuels. Biomass is commonly plant matter grown to generate electricity or produce heat. For example, forest residues (such as dead trees, branches and tree stumps), yard clippings and wood chips may be used as this
What is biomass?
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The coldest, driest biome. All locations reach low temperatures that can freeze on any night, even in the tropical locations. Summers are short.
What is the Tundra?
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The green world hypothesis states that terrestrial herbivores consume relatively little plant biomass because they are held in check by a variety of factors, including predators, parasites, and disease. Several factors that the green world hypothesis suggests keep herbivores in check are: Plants have defenses against herbivores such as noxious chemicals and spines. Nutrients, not energy supply, usually limit herbivores. Plants give off a low supply of protein, which animals need. Abiotic factors also limit herbivores. Changes in temperature and moisture will lower the carrying capacity of herbivores so that they're unable to strip an area of its vegetation. Intraspecific competition limits herbivore numbers because they may battle over territory or mates. Interspecific interactions such as predation and disease will kill herbivore densities in check. This is said to be the most important limiting factor. Because of all these, herbivores consume only about 17% of net primary production by plants.
What is green world hyothesis?
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The average temperature of the forest is about 50 degrees F. The average amount of rainfall in the forest is 30 to 60 inches a year. As the seasons change, so do the colors of the leaves of this. During the winter months water is generally not available to keep the leaves of some plants alive. Therefore, the leaves of some plants fall off and grow back in the spring. Those plants, like evergreens, keep their leaves during the winter have special adaptations to stay alive.
What is a deciduous forest?
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relationship between two living organisms where one benefits and the other is not significantly harmed or helped
What is Commensalism?
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I started out a very long time ago as a biomass, but Im not anymore. I was formed by natural resources such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms.
What is fossil fuels?
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Not many plants and animals can survive, but the ones that do are adapted to the torturous climate. As if the heat were not enough, at night it cools down to very cold temperatures
What is the desert?
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The tilt of the earth is, in fact, responsible for the seasons of the year. When one hemisphere is tilted more toward the sun, it is summer in that hemisphere. When it is tilted away, that hemisphere experiences winter. Autumn and spring are the times in between summer and winter when the tilt is facing neither directly toward or away from the sun.
What is turn over
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The climate of the this is very cold and dry but not as much as the tundra is. The this gets between 25-75 cm of rain per year. The taiga has cold snowy winters and warm summers. Also most of the precipitation comes in the summer months. Some other things about the climate of the this is that the average temperature is below freezing for six months of the year.
What is taiga(coniferous forest)?
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relationship is one in which one member of the association benefits while the other is harmed
What is Parasitism?
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This is something that has caused water and air pollution as well as the atomosphere having a hole torn in it.
What are the harmful effects of fossil fuels?
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It never gets very warm and most of the time it doesn't get below freezing. In July the temperature was 17.9 degrees celsius and in December of that same year it was 22.4 degrees celsius. The rainfall each month varies, sometimes this gets a large amount of rain and sometimes it gets very little. For example in June and July 5.1 inches of rain fell and in April 40.1 inches fell.
What is the savannah?
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the process that speeds up natural eutrophication because of human activity. Due to clearing of land and building of towns and cities, runoff water is accelerated and more nutrients such as phosphates and nitrate are supplied to the lakes and ponds.
What is cultural eutrophication
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this represent the most complex aquatic ecosystem found betwen 30 degrees north and south latitude, the greatest concentration is found between four degrees north and south latitude in the westerm portions of all major oceans. There are two broad categories of coral reefs: shelf reefs and oceanic reefs. Shelf reefs include fringing reefs, platform reefs, bank reefs, and barrier reefs and are located on the continental shelf, while oceanic reefs are found off the continental shelf growing around the margins of volcanic islands. this support a greater number of fish and invertebrate species than any other ecosystem in the ocean.
What is Corral reef?
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Symbiosis played a major role in the this of flowering plants and the animals that pollinate them
What is co-evolution?
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I cause many deaths. Extra hint: Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis
What is DTP?
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The climate in the grassland is warm and dry which is pretty temperate. In this biome, between 25 and 75 cm of rainfall yearly. Here it occurs in the interior of the continents and rainshadows. It has a very continental climate with hot summers and cold winters. There is more precipitation in the summer time then there is in the winter. The temperature is a lot warmer in the summer than in the winter. The temperature control is heating of land and the climate control is latitude because it is near the equator. The heating of land is when land heats quickly and land cools down quickly.
What is the grassland?
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the increasing concentration of toxic substances within each successive link in the food chain.
What is Biological magnification
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that they keep their needles year round. Most trees keep their needles for two to three years but the spruce tree can keep its needles for up to 15 years! They keep their needles to help keep them warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Conifers are cone shaped to accommodate large amounts of snowfall in the winter.
What is an evergreen tree?
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contends that symbiosis is a major driving force behind evolution.considers Darwin's notion of evolution, driven by competition, as incomplete and claims that evolution is strongly based on co-operation, interaction, and mutual dependence among organisms
What is Symbiogenesis?