Succession
Primary or Secondary
Starts on bare rock
What is primary succession?
Wetlands formed where rivers meet the sea.
What are estuaries?
An increase in the amount of nutrients, such as nitrate, in an aquatic ecosystem.
What is eutrophication?
Potential or Kinetic
Stored Energy
What is potential energy?
Sun heats up water and evaporates it.
What is evaporation?
Primary or Secondary
Happens after disturbances
What is secondary?
Coastal land areas that are covered by salt water.
What are Coastal wetlands?
An ecosystem where fresh water covers soil or is present near the surface of soil as least part of the year
What are freshwater wetlands?
Energy with motion
What is kinetic energy?
What is condensation?
Volcanic eruptions, forest fires, human disturbances
More plants and animals that anchor to rocks
What are rocky and sandy shores?
The region near the bottom of a lake or pond.
What is the Benthic Zone?
Potential or kinetic
Vibration of molecules
What is kinetic energy?
Another name for infiltration
What is percolation?
Primary Secondary
New organisms start to form
What is primary succesion?
One of the most diverse ecosystems.
What are coral reefs?
Name 2 of the organisms that live in aquatic biomes.
What is phytoplankton, nexton, benthos, plankton?
How do we measure energy?
What is British Thermal Units/BTU's?
Melter water running down
What is runoff?
Occurs when farmland is abandoned.
What is Old Field Succession?
Least productive ecosystem
A shallow zone near the edge of a body of water.
What is littoral zone?
Chemical energy
What is potential energy?
Plants absorb water and moves from soil to rocks.