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| receive relatively large inputs sediments, organic material, and inorganic nutrients from their surroundings allowing them to support Dan’s plant communities. |
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| where nearly all the energy needed to support life is extracted from the excrement and bodies of organisms that sink or swim into this deep region. |
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| refers to the total number of species within an ecosystem and the resulting complexity of interactions among them. |
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| large land areas similar environmental conditions in characteristic plant communities. |
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| a unique type of vegetation that mainly grows in deserts. |
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| refers to the patterns of whether the prevail over years or centuries in a particular region. |
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| in warm tropical waters with just the right combination of bottom depth, wave action, and nutrients, specialized allergy in corals build Reese from their own calcium carbonate skeletons. Reefs most abundant and tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, the Caribbean, the gulf of mexico. |
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| a biome which sees less than 10 inches of rain annually. |
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| continents interrupt the currents, breaking them into roughly circular patterns called Gyres. |
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| Hydrothermal vent community |
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| vents in the ocean floor that release superheated, water into the surrounding ocean. |
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| hey region alternately covered and uncovered with the rising and falling of the tides. |
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| enough light penetrates to support photosynthesis, and plankton, fish, and floating plants such as duckweed predominate. |
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| near the shore, or plants find abundant life, Anchorage, and nutrients from the bottom sediments. |
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| relatively shallow but constantly submerged areas including babies and coastal wetlands. |
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| Northern coniferous forest |
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| North of the grasslands in temperate forest, it stretches from east to west across all of North America and Eurasia, including parts of the northern US. |
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| very low in nutrients and support relatively little life. |
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| Ocean life forms that are free swimming or floating for their entire lives. |
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| permanently frozen layer of soil typically no more than about 1.5 feet below the surface. |
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| the upper layer of water in the ocean or the line is strong enough to support photosynthesis. |
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| littoral waters are also home too small, unattached organisms collectively called… |
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| where light is too scarce to support photosynthesis. |
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| he cool, dry hair is warm again as it travels down the far side of the mountain and absorbs water from the land creating a local dry area called a rain shadow. |
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| a biome where grasses are dominant vegetation and they are only scattered trees and thorny scrub forests. |
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| Temperate deciduous forest |
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| the sword taint enough moisture for trees to grow, and the resulting force shades out grasses. |
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| these are relatively rare, are also located along the southeastern coast of Australia and the south western coast of New Zealand and chili. |
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| a vast treeless region bordering the Arctic Ocean. |
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| occurs around Antarctica and along western coastlines. |
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| refers to short term fluctuations in temperature, humidity, cloud cover, win, and precipitation in a region over a period of hours or days. |
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