Vocabulary
This term describes organisms that drift with currents and cannot swim against them.
What is Plankton?
These are the two most important abiotic factors that determine terrestrial biome type.
What are temperature and precipitation?
This type of forest has trees that change color in the fall.
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
These two abiotic factors are most important in determining aquatic biodiversity.
What are light and nutrients?
High and low tides are primarily caused by the gravitational pull of this object.
What is the Moon?
This water-quality factor measures cloudiness and affects light penetration.
What is Turbidity
As latitude increases from the equator, this generally happens to temperature.
What is that temperature decreases?
This forest biome receives the most precipitation and has the greatest biodiversity.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This lake zone near the shore has the highest biological diversity.
What is the littoral zone?
Increased CO2 in seawater causes ocean pH to do this.
What is decrease?
This group of aquatic organisms lives on or in the bottom of a body of water.
What is Benthos?
This biome is expected near 5°N latitude due to high heat and rainfall.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This forest biome receives the least precipitation and is dominated by conifers.
What is a temperate coniferous forest (taiga)?
Strong swimmers such as fish and squid belong to this classification group.
What is nekton?
This chemical equation represents ocean acidification.
What is CO₂ + H₂O → H⁺ + HCO₃⁻?
This process occurs when nutrient input causes excessive algal growth and oxygen depletion.
What is eutrophication?
This factor causes higher elevations to have cooler temperatures than nearby lowlands.
What is Altitude?
This is one major reason temperate grasslands have very few trees.
What is frequent fire or low precipitation?
This ocean ecosystem is the most biodiverse in the world.
What are coral reefs?
As water temperature increases, dissolved gases like oxygen become this.
What is less soluble?
These organisms recycle nutrients by breaking down dead organic matter.
What are decomposers?
This climate phenomenon creates dry conditions on the leeward side of mountains.
What is the rain shadow effect?
Fires maintain grassland and Mediterranean biomes primarily by doing this.
What is preventing tree encroachment and recycling nutrients?
This deep ocean zone is called the “marine desert” due to extreme conditions.
What is the abyssal zone?
Using given data, this is the annual global mass increase of CaCO₃ in coral reefs.
What is 4.2 × 10¹² kilograms per year?