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| study of organisms and the environment: the study of the relationships between living organisms and their interactions with their natural or developed environmen |
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What are the 5 abiotic factors that affect the distribution of plants? T.W.S.W.S.
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- Tempature
- Water
- Sunlight
- Wind
- Soil
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individuals of same species: all the plants or animals of a particular species present in a place. |
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| Interacting plants and animals: all the plants and animals that live in the same area and interact with one another |
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| major ecological community: a division of the world's vegetation that corresponds to a defined climate and is characterized by specific types of plants and animals, e.g. tropical rain forest or desert. |
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| Free of living things: not containing or supporting life
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| As air rises to pass over mountain it loses pressure and starts to rain. On the other side of the mountain is the rain shadow b/c the air has lost all the moisture. |
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| Air Gathers moiture over a lake and then when it hits land it cools down and turns into snow and rain (precipitation) |
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| Explain the way the hot and cold air go's through different pressure zones starting from the equater to the N. and S. poles. |
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At the equaters the air travels inwards then outwards then inwards etc.. The equater is a LP following pattern to HP at the N. and S. poles. |
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- Hot air ____ and cold air _____?
- Hot air rises and equals __________?
- As air rises it is _____, and can hold less____, which leads to an increase in ____?
- This air then moves laterally and drops back down at the 30°zone. Due to this zone being a ____ pressure zone the air drops back down and _____, which leads to the air being able to hold more _____?
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- Rises, falls
- A low Pressure zone
- Cooled, water, precipitation
- High, Warms up, precipitation
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| Name the worlds 9 major biome types? |
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- Tropical Rain Forest
- Deciduous Tropical Forest
- Temperate Deciduious Forest
- Grassland
- Desert
- Chaparral
- Temperate Rain Forest
- Northern Coniferous Forests
- Tundra
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| Extremely high diversity, broadleaf evergreen trees, woody vines adn epiphytes, The soil is very poor in nutrients. |
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| Deciduous Tropical Forest |
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| Drought deciduos, near the equeator. They have a wet season followed by a long dry season. |
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| Temperate Deciduous Forest |
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| Winter deciduous, spring ephemeral flora. |
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| Highly productive regions, prairies or savanah |
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| Evaporation exceeds precipitation, Annual componets are an important component. |
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| Chaparral (Mediterranean) |
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| Dry hot summers and wer mild winters, Vegetations is shrubby and plants have adapted to with stand fires. |
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| Temperate Rain (moist coniferous) Forests |
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| Permafrost, precipitation is low, low nutrients, vegetation is all low growing. |
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| Plants that drop there leaves, there can be winter deciduous, drought deciduos etc. |
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| Plant that grows on another: a plant that grows on top of or is supported by another plant but does not depend on it for nutrition. |
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| short-lived organism: a plant or insect that lives for only a short period of time. |
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| What does it mean if a biome has high production? |
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| What is a "blow out" and what happens after? |
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| A blowout is a catostrophic disturbance like a valcano eruption that resets the ecological succession. |
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| Explain Ecological Succesion? |
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| 2 types of Succesion usually happen after a disturbance. Primary and Secondary |
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| ecology development of plant and animal community: the series of changes that create a full-fledged plant and animal community, e.g. from the colonization of bare rock to the establishment of a forest |
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| The set of changes in communities over rime in areas that are initially devoid of almost all life and where soil has not yet formed. |
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| A combination of changes that take placve where a comnnunity has been removed by a disturbance but the soil remains intanct; fan follow human activity or natural changes. |
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| What would a characteristic be of a pioneer plant? |
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| firm planting roots like in dune grass |
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| What is a climax ecosystem? |
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| A community that will remain relatively stable unless upset by a major disturbance |
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A brown or black organic substance consisting of partially or wholly decayed vegetable or animal matter that provides nutrients for plants and increases the ability of soil to retain water. |
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| a temporary change in average environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem |
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| List and explain the abiotic factors that define an organism's environment? |
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| Describe how topography can alter the global patterns of moisture distribution? |
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| Explain sand dune to forest succession? |
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| Explain the role of plants as producers? |
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| Describe the movements of matter and energy through the universe with reference to the carious trophic levels? |
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| The biosphere is the broadest level of ecological study, the global sum of all ecosystems. |
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| A species that has a strong effect on the structure of the community, even though the species itself may or may not be particularly abundant. |
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| combination of all the physical and bilogical variables that affect and organism's success |
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| The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs. |
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