Soil
These biomes have the best soil.
What are grasslands and temperate rainforest?
This is the most productive ocean zone
What is the Neritic zone?
This cold biome has no trees
What is alpine?
The salt concentration
What is salinity?
Sea stars live here
What is the intertidal zone?
These are the necessary nutrients in soil.
What are phosphorous, potassium, and nitrogen?
Bioluminescence is used for this
What is attracting prey, attracting a mate, and deter predators?
A polar bear lives in this biome
What is tundra?
The organic component of soil
What is humus?
Soil regulates temperature in this way:
What is absorbs heat during the day and releases heat at night?
These two things protect the soil from erosion
What are plant root systems and surface coverage?
Soil conditions in the marine biome
What is poor soil in the intertidal and lots of organic matter in the benthic?
Bacteria love to live in this biome
What is freshwater?
Physical or chemical wearing down of something
What is erosion?
Soil supports organisms by...
What is providing shelter to animals that burrow and food for microorganisms?
Soil supports plants in two ways
What is physical support for roots and nutrition?
The layers of the marine biome in order
What is intertidal, neritic, oceanic, photic, aphotic, and benthic?
Plants have adapted to the desert by...
What is having shallow long roots, waxy leaves, and spines?
A river empties into the ocean
What is an estuary?
This biome is 60 degrees N and above
What is tundra?
Why is temperate rainforest soil better than tropical rainforest soil?
Temperate rainforest soil can retain more water, it experiences all four seasons, and has better/more decomposers
This is the main flora of the marine biome
What is algae?
Animals adapt to headwaters by...
What is hooks and suckers, being thin and muscular (able to swim upstream)?
A mixture of salt and freshwater
Brackish water
This biome produces the most oxygen
What is the marine biome?