Terrestrial Biomes
This biome typically has high temperatures with limited rainfall. Low Biodiversity
Desert
Flowing fresh water boarded by a riparian zone.
Streams and Rivers
Interactions among organisms and the environment. Includes both biotic and abiotic factors.
Organisms that live in or on another organism, called the host.
Parasite
Found in warm, shallow salt waters that remain above 20 degrees celsius year-round. Often surrounded by volcanic islands.
Coral Reefs
This is the biome we reside in here in CT.
Temperate Seasonal Forest
This biome covers largest portion of the surface of the Earth.
The open ocean
Ecological Systems exist in a hierarchy of organization. What is this order from "smallest to largest".
Organism < population < community < ecosystem< biome
Interaction with negative effects on both species that require the same limiting resource to survive, grow, and reproduce
Competition
We categorize species based on sources of energy. What are the two main types.
Producers/Autotrophs
Consumers/Heterotrophs
This is the coldest Biome. Also has some of the lowest precipitation. Found closest to the poles.
Tundra
This biome has non-flowing fresh water with at least some area that is too deep for plants to rise above the water’s surface.
Lakes and ponds
Natural Selection causes this to occur.
Evolution
An interaction between two species in which each species receives benefits from the other.
Mutualism
This biome often times surrounds a tropical rainforest.
Tropical Seasonal Forest/Savanna
This dense forest of highly populated evergreen needle-leaved trees. Temperature is typically below 5 degrees Celsius.
Taiga (Boreal Forest)
These areas are along the coast where the mouths of freshwater rivers mix with the salt water from oceans
Estuaries
What are at least 2 of the 3 conditions that allow evolution to occur.
Individual organisms vary in their traits
Parental traits are inherited by their offspring
The variation in traits causes some individuals to experience higher fitness
The range of abiotic and biotic conditions that an organism can tolerate
Niche
This biome acts as buffer between the ocean and land, helps prevent against erosion.
Mangrove
This biome is found around the Mediterranean. It has hot, dry summers and mild wet winters.
Shrublands/Woodlands
This biome contains standing freshwater, or soils saturated with fresh water for at least part of the year, and are shallow enough to have emergent vegetation throughout all depths.
Give me at least 5 different types of species interactions.
-Predation
-Parasitism
-Herbivory
-Competition
-Mutualism
-Commensalism
-Consumers of dead organic matter
Change in the frequency of genes in a population through differential survival and reproduction of individuals that possess certain traits.
Natural Selection
Give an example of a commensalism relationship and explain what it is.
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