Climate
Short-term changes in conditions like precipitation, temperature, and humidity
What is weather?
2 terrestrial biomes **200 points if you name 4
What is: deserts, grasslands, forests, mountains?
What is: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic?
What is: no salinity / 0 ppt?
The transitional area between 2 ecosystems leads to greater biodiversity than either of those ecosystems individually
What is edge effect?
Long-term pattern of atmospheric conditions over 30+ years
What is climate?
The three types of deserts, forests, and grasslands
What are: tropical, temperate, cold?
What are coastal and pelagic (open ocean)?
2 differences between lakes and ponds **300 POINTS if 4 differences
What are: lakes = larger, deeper, no light reaches bottom (aphotic), no vegetation on bottom?
A community of interacting living organisms and their physical environment
What is ecosystem?
3 factors that influence climate
What are: solar energy, air/water circulation patterns, Earth's rotation, atmospheric gases, Earth's topography?
You're in Costa Rica exploring a lush environment dominated by dense vegetation, but especially trees. This environment is ...... **Include environment name and the type
What is a (tropical) forest?
Environment where rivers meet the ocean
What is estuary?
An ecosystem where water flows from an aquifer to Earth's surface
What is a spring?
This moves air, heat, and moisture in the atmosphere and is strongest at the Equator
What are Hadley cells?
What is Coriolis effect?
4 reasons why deserts are fragile ecosystems
What are: erosion, little vegetation, low spp diversity, slow plant growth, slow nutrient cycling, little water?
Three zones of open ocean
What are: photic, twilight, aphotic?
How streams & rivers shape land
What is: flowing water erodes rock, carving out valleys; eroded rock gets moved with flowing water and eventually deposited (can build features)
How mountains and the world's water are related
What is: store water (ice, glaciers, snow) in water cycle; frozen water melts and feeds other ecosystems?
Some solar energy in our atmosphere gets absorbed by greenhouse gases, which further warm our atmosphere
What is greenhouse effect?
How agriculture is a main threat to terrestrial ecosystems
What is: land degraded/altered = lose habitat, used unsustainably, pollution, permanently alter ecosystems and therefore economies?
Why coral reefs are so biodiverse (Hint: think about where food chain starts)
What is: high productivity (water has many nutrients; high light)?
1 threat to freshwater ecosystems and HOW this threat affects them
What is: sea level rise = saltwater intrusion; altered water flow = downstream/surrounding ecosystems get different amounts of water; pollution = algae blooms/toxic
Differences between oligotrophic and eutrophic lakes. Include nutrient supply and how that affects food web.
What is: oligotrophic = deeper, steep, few nutrients, simple food web; eutrophic = shallower, murky, many nutrients, complex food web?