Biomes

Question 0

What two factors influence life in a biome?

Answer 0

Temperature and precipitation

Question 1

What is an area with its own unique geography and climate?

Answer 1

Biome

Question 2

How are latitude and average temperature related?

Answer 2

Inversely

Question 3

How are altitude and average temperature related?

Answer 3

Inversely

Question 4

What two climate effects are typically observed in biomes near large bodies of water?

Answer 4

Greater precipitation, more stable temperatures

Question 5

What is a combined precipitation and temperature graph for a certain biome?

Answer 5

Climate graph

Question 6

What is the process by which a plant or animal community successfully gives way to another until a stable climax is reached?

Answer 6

Succession

Question 7

Where does primary succession occurs?

Answer 7

In essentially lifeless areas

Question 8

When does secondary succession occur?

Answer 8

After a disturbance that reduced the population of the initial inhabitants

Question 9

What is the dissolved salt content in water?

Answer 9

Salinity

Question 10

What is a measure for water clarity?

Answer 10

Turbidity

Question 11

What are free floating or weakly swimming organisms?

Answer 11

Plankton

Question 12

What’s the difference between phytoplankton and zooplankton?

Answer 12

Phytoplankton are producers and zooplankton are consumers

Question 13

What are strong swimming organisms or consumers?

Answer 13

Nekton

Question 14

What are bottom dwellers?

Answer 14

Benthos

Question 15

What type of ecosystem contains standing water?

Answer 15

Lentic

Question 16

What type of ecosystem contains running water?

Answer 16

Lotic

Question 17

What is the zone of a freshwater lake near the shore that contains shallow sunlit waters?

Answer 17

Littoral zone

Question 18

What is the zone of freshwater lakes where the water is sunlit, but further away from the shore?

Answer 18

Limnetic zone

Question 19

What is the area near the bottom of the lake that is inhabited mostly by decomposers feeding from detritus from above?

Answer 19

Benthic zone

Question 20

What is a lake low in nutrients?

Answer 20

Oligotrophic

Question 21

What is a lake containing greater concentrations of nutrients?

Answer 21

Eutrophic

Question 22

What is a narrow channel of water that often begins in mountainous areas where water moved rapidly across rocks and down waterfalls?

Answer 22

Stream

Question 23

What are nonpermanent bodies of freshwater?

Answer 23

Inland wetlands

Question 24

What is a wetland without trees?

Answer 24

Marsh

Question 25

What is a wetland with trees?

Answer 25

Swamp

Question 26

What is a wetland characterized by plants that produce an acidic secretion that slows down decomposition?

Answer 26

Bog

Question 27

What is a coastal wetland regularly flooded by tides and dominated by herbs, grasses, and shrubs (no trees)?

Answer 27

Salt marsh

Question 28

What is a wetland with narrow-leaved plants that make it look like an underwater grassland?

Answer 28

Sea grass bed

Question 29

What is a wetland with trees that have evolved to survive in high-salt, low-oxygen water?

Answer 29

Mangrove forest

Question 30

Corals polyps build hard skeletons made of what?

Answer 30

Calcium carbonate

Question 31

What is a ridge of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of coral?

Answer 31

Coral reef

Question 32

What is the depth to which light penetrates?

Answer 32

Photic zone

Question 33

What is the dark zone beneath the photic zone?

Answer 33

Aphotic zone