Vocab
Gradual breaking down of something by wind or water
What is Erosion?
These make up a population.
What are individuals?
Broad leaved Deciduous Forest. Where we are now
What is a Temperate Forest?
All systems of energy start with this energy source
What is the sun?
The zone that gets enough sunlight to photosynthesize.
What is the Photic Zone?
Freshwater from glaciers/precipitation at higher elevations
What are the headwaters?
These are made up of communities.
What is an Ecosystem?
Rate of evaporation exceeds precipitation. Varying Temperatures and Low Rainfall.
What is a Desert?
Shows how energy is shared and inter-connected between organisms
What is a Food Web?
200-1000m. Nicknamed the "twilight zone"
What is the Mesopelagic zone?
The measure of the variety of life that occurs within an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
The Earth is this level of organization
What is a biosphere?
Treeless, cold and dark, low rainfall. Below the ice caps.
What is a Tundra?
The first level of the food pyramid, made up of organisms that make their own food.
What are autotrophs or producers?
1000-4000m. Nicknamed the "midnight zone"
What is the Bathypelagic Zone?
A nutrient-rich waterbody
What is Eutrophic?
A climate that supports specific kinds of life
What is a Biome?
High Temperatures and high rainfall.
What is a Tropical Rainforest?
Dead organic material
What is detritus?
Top 200 meters of the ocean. It has sunlight.
What is the Epipelagic Zone?
Obtaining energy through chemicals
What is chemosynthesis?
These are made up of populations
What is a Community?
Dense evergreens, long, dry winters
What is a Boreal Forest?
The type of decomposers that digest food externally
What are saprotrophs?
Greater that 6000 meters. Deep sea trenches.
What is the Hadopelagic zone?