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Biomes Flashcards

1
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Name the two main groups of biomes.

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Aquatic & Terrestrial

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Name the two main groups of terrestrial biomes.

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Forests & Open Lands

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Name the two main abiotic factors that define terrestrial biomes.

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Temperature & Moisture

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Name the 4 types of forests.

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Conifer forest, deciduous forest, tropical rainforest, & taiga.

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Name the 4 types of open lands.

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Tundra, desert, temperate grasslands, & savanna.

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Name the two main groups of aquatic biomes.

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Freshwater & Marine

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Name 5 abiotic factors that influence aquatic biomes.

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Salt content, temperature, depth, light, current, pH, pressure, bottom composition…

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Name the two main types of freshwater biomes AND give an example of each.

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Lentic = lakes (Lake Tahoe) and Lotic = rivers (Truckee River)

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Name the 6 types of marine biomes.

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Coral Reef, Kelp Forest, Pelagic Zone, Benthic Zone, Rocky Shore, & Sandy Shore

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Which biome has characteristics between a forest and a desert?

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Chapparal

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Which biome has characteristics between a forest and a shoreline?

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Mangroves

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12
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Which biome has a mix of freshwater and saltwater?

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Estuary

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Which biome is a mix of land and water?

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Wetlands

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Which aquatic biome is the deep and dark water?

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Benthic Zone

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Which aquatic biome is the open ocean?

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Pelagic Zone

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Plants in this biome often have miniature leaves to reduce water loss and avoid overheating.

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Desert

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The new moon causes an extra low tide, allowing sandpipers to find more food than usual in this biome.

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Sandy Shore, aka Sandy Intertidal

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18
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The hills around Lake Tahoe are an example of this biome.

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Conifer Forest

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19
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The first humans evolved in this biome.

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Savanna

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Biome with tide pools that trap seawater at low tide, allowing organisms to survive until the next high tide.

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Rocky Shore, aka Rocky Intertidal

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What defines an intertidal biome?

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It is underwater at high tide, but exposed to the air at low tide.

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Lake Tahoe is the one of the deepest examples of this biome in the world.

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Lentic Zone

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23
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The study of lakes is called…

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Limnology

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24
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The largest and oldest organisms on Earth are found in this biome.

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Conifer Forest (remember, “organisms” includes plants!) PS: All of the records are held by trees in California: Redwood trees are the tallest, Sequoias are the most massive, and Bristlecone Pines are the oldest - up to 5,000 years! So it was 3,000 years old during the time of Christ!

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25
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This biome covers most of Earth.

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Pelagic Zone

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Many migrating shorebirds stop at this biome to rest and feed before finishing their trip.

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Marsh

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27
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Logging companies clear cut many acres of forest to make paper and lumber, destroying the habitat needed by many species in this biome.

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Conifer Forest

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28
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This biome is only a small part of Earth, but it has half of Earth’s land species.

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Tropical Rainforest

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29
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Rainfall helps plants grow that zebra and wildebeest need to eat, which gives more food to the lions and cheetahs that eat them in this biome.

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Savanna

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30
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Biome with trees that lose their leaves in the fall.

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Deciduous Forest

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31
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The tops of mountains as well as regions in the far north are included in this biome.

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Tundra - mountaintops that reach above treeline have “Alpine Tundra,” while “Arctic Tundra” is found in the far north.

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32
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People must decide whether drilling for oil in this biome is worth interfering with caribou breeding.

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Tundra

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33
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Clear-cut logging has destroyed most of the world’s old-growth forest in this biome.

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Conifer Forest

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34
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The largest animals on Earth live in this biome.

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Pelagic Zone - Whales!

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35
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Construction around this biome adds sediments to the water, providing nutrients that allows algae to cloud up the water.

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Lentic Zone

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36
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Terrestrial biome with the highest diversity of organisms.

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Tropical Rainforest

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37
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Many birds migrate to this biome in summer to breed and feed on the plentiful insects.

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Tundra

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38
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This biome has a multi-layered canopy that houses animals that may never come to the ground.

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Tropical Rainforest

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39
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Just like the old wagon train roads that are still visible today, motorcycles cut new trails across this biome that take centuries to grow back - except that there are thousands more of them now.

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Desert

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40
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Cutting down the rainforest for this type of farming allows people to grow crops for a few years, but because the soil is so poor they soon need to cut down more of the forest.

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Slash and burn agriculture

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41
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Many organisms in this biome can store or recycle water in their bodies.

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Desert

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42
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Biome that is transition between conifer forest and tundra.

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Taiga

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43
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This biome has wet and dry seasons instead of cold and warm seasons.

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Savanna

44
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Sunlight never reaches this biome, so animals there depend on dead organisms sinking down from shallower water to start the food chain.

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Benthic Zone

45
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Streamside restoration projects plant trees along riverbanks, helping to keep the water cool, reducing erosion, and preventing the buildup of silt in this biome.

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Lotic Zone

46
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This biome includes many animals that live in holes and tunnels made from the rocky skeletons of tiny invertebrates.

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Coral Reef

47
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This abiotic factor controls the type of freshwater biome in an area.

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Current - if the water is flowing like a creek, it is a lotic zone, but if the water is standing still like a lake, it is the lentic zone.

48
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Animals in this biome must survive both living underwater and being exposed to air.

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Rocky and Sandy Shores

49
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Flowing freshwater biome.

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Lotic Zone

50
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The demand for tropical fish for aquariums leads people to pour cyanide on this biome to stun the fish so they are easy to capture – but it also kills many parts of the food chain.

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Coral Reef

51
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The Truckee River is one of only 3 rivers in the world that both start and end at this biome. (Careful - this is not asking for the river biome, but where it starts and ends!)

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Lentic Zone - the Truckee River starts at Lake Tahoe, and ends at Pyramid Lake. Most rivers end in the ocean.

52
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Some environmental groups might purchase many acres of this biome to protect its unique population of poison arrow frogs and other organisms.

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Tropical Rainforest

53
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The largest and fastest land animals live in this biome.

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Savanna (Largest land animal = elephant, fastest land animal = cheetah. The fastest of all animals is the Peregrine Falcon, which can reach 200 mph in a dive!)

54
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This biome sometimes includes a food chain that starts with hot springs instead of the sun.

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Benthic Zone (No light, so no photosynthesis. Most of the BZ gets energy from dead critters sinking down into it, but a few spots have underwater hot springs that provide energy).

55
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This biome provides most of the water for people in Reno.

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Lotic Zone

56
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Whales get tangled and drown in “ghost nets” lost by fishermen in this biome.

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Pelagic Zone (Ghost nets have broken free from their fishing boats, and since they’re made of plastic, they don’t decay. They might be over a mile long, and float around drowning creatures for years.

57
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Nutrients form sewage & fertilizer can cause algae blooms that use up oxygen and kill fish in this biome.

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Lentic Zone

58
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The process where nutrients allow algae blooms in lakes, gradually making it less clear and less blue.

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Eutrophication (“Keep Tahoe Oligotrophic” - clear and blue!)

59
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Sewage that has been partially treated can help this biome maintain its water supply without polluting it, since the plants filter out the wastes and use the nutrients to grow.

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Marsh

60
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Biome with large mixed herds of mammals such as wildebeest, zebras, gnus, and ostriches.

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Savanna

61
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Marine biome with the highest diversity of organisms.

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Coral Reef

62
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Straightening this biome makes it easier to build along it, but the faster water causes more flooding.

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Lotic Zone

63
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This biome has permafrost about 6 feet underground.

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Tundra (Permafrost is soil that remains permanently frozen all year long).

64
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This cold, short forest has a Russian name which means, “Land of Little Sticks.”

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Taiga

65
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The biome that is like a frozen desert, because it is cold, but does not get much liquid precipitation.

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Tundra

66
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Trees with cones dominate this biome.

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Conifer Forest

67
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Biome with trees that turn bright colors in the fall after their chlorophyll molecules break down.

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Deciduous Forest

68
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Many arthropods, reptiles, and other cold-blooded animals live in this biome.

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Desert

69
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This abiotic factor makes the difference between a tropical rainforest and a temperate rainforest.

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Temperature

70
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Cutting this forest down can change the water cycle in a region because of the huge amount of transpiration occurring here.

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Tropical Rainforest

71
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Forests are invading this biome today, because people have been putting out the natural wildfires that stopped seedlings from growing.

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Temperate Grasslands

72
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This biome is great for “ecotourism,” as people explore the colorful fish living in the warm water.

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Coral Reef

73
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Many small islands and reeds provide hiding places for bird nests in this biome.

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Marsh

74
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This abiotic factor makes the difference between a desert and a grassland.

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Precipitation

75
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This abiotic factor has the most influence over the type of aquatic biome in an area.

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Salt content

76
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So many lumber mills were along this biome near Reno in the late 1800s that their sawdust made the water looked like oatmeal.

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Lotic Zone

77
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Fires in this biome are worse now - they are hotter as a result of fuel building up when we put out small fires over the years.

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Conifer Forest

78
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Poachers have decimated populations of many animals in this biome, mostly just to collect their body parts.

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Savanna

79
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Some animals in this biome are able to create their own light, which is called “bioluminescence.”

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Benthic Zone

80
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This biome is split into creeks and rivers depending on whether you can walk across them or not.

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Lotic Zone

81
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These 2 abiotic factors control the type of marine biome that is found in an area.

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Depth and temperature

82
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The Paiute people of northern Nevada depended on Cui-Ui spawning in this biome to supply them with food for the whole year.

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Lotic Zone (the Cui-Ui fish live in Pyramid Lake for most of the year, but spawn in the Truckee River - and they are not found anywhere else in the world!)

83
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Biome known as “the nurseries of the sea” because so many fish and invertebrates lay their eggs here.

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Estuary

84
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Trout and salmon need to lay their eggs in gravel in cool, clean water in this biome.

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Lotic Zone

85
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Biome with streamlined organisms that handle the current by clinging to rocks or by swimming strongly.

A

Lotic Zone

86
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Biome with poor soil since dead plants decay rapidly and the nutrients are immediately taken up into living plants.

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Tropical Rainforest (the heat and humidity speed up the decay process)

87
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Biome that is often used for agriculture since it has rich soil and few trees.

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Temperate Grasslands (the build-up of millennia of dead grasses has made the soil very thick and fertile)

88
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The place where a river meets the sea makes a good port for ships, but construction and oil in the water stop the fish and birds from using this biome as a breeding ground.

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Estuary

89
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By the time you finish these flashcards, many acres of this biome will have been destroyed.

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Tropical Rainforest

90
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Much of Nevada is in this biome.

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Desert

91
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This biome is more common in eastern US states than in western states.

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Deciduous Forest

92
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Some Native American tribes followed huge herds of migrating bison through this biome.

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Temperate Grasslands

93
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This biome is threatened by “bleaching,” where mutualistic algae die from pollution or global warming.

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Coral Reef

94
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This biome is often converted into another biome so that falling water can be used to make electricity.

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Lotic Zone (the river is dammed, converting it into a lake)

95
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The government protects a block of wilderness from mining, grazing, agriculture, and development, saving the pines in this biome and their habitat for future generations to enjoy.

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Conifer Forest

96
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Some animals in this biome “sleep” through the summer to survive the heat, which is called estivation.

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Desert

97
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A giant algae that can grow a foot a day makes up the base of the food chain in this biome.

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Kelp Forest

98
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People often see no value in this biome, but it is important to many organisms and can benefit people at the same time.

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Marsh

99
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Much of this biome has been destroyed since it has been either filled in or drained for farming or buildings.

A

Marsh

100
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This biome is found in cool, shallow saltwater along the Pacific coast of North America.

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Kelp Forest

101
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Biome that suffers from slash and burn agriculture.

A

Tropical Rainforest

102
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Biome that is growing due to the destruction of another biome near it.

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Desert (this process is called “desertification,” and is a common problem around the edges of the Sahara desert in Africa)

103
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Animals are so spread out in this biome that it is almost like an underwater desert.

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Pelagic Zone

104
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Farmers divert water to their fields, so this biome dries up and migrating waterfowl run out of energy on their way to their nesting grounds.

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Marsh

105
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Biome that provides protection from floods and that absorbs pollutants from water.

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Marsh (also Estuary and Mangroves)

106
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Most of the wood we use for paper and lumber comes from this biome.

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Conifer Forest

107
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“Hardwoods” such as oak that are used for furniture often comes from this biome.

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Deciduous Forest

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