Chapter 52

Question 0

climate

Answer 0

prevailing weather conditions over time in a specific region

Question 1

ecology

Answer 1

study of how organisms interact with their environment

Question 2

biosphere

Answer 2

global ecosystem

Question 3

global ecology

Answer 3

study of how energy and materials of a region affect organisms across the biosphere

Question 4

landscape

Answer 4

connected ecosystems

Question 5

landscape ecology

Answer 5

factors controlling energy flow materials and org in a landscape

Question 6

ecosystem

Answer 6

community of organisms in a specific region and the physical components of organismal interaction

Question 7

ecosystem ecology

Answer 7

looks at flow of energy and the chemical cycle between org and their environment

Question 8

community

Answer 8

populations of differing species in a region

Question 9

community ecology

Answer 9

examines social aspects of community structure and organization like predetation and competition

Question 10

population

Answer 10

same species in one place

Question 11

population ecology

Answer 11

what affects pop size and why it changes

Question 12

organismal ecology

Answer 12

how org structure physiology and behavior is adapted to its environment

Question 13

tropics

Answer 13

between 23.5 S lat & 23.5 N lat

Question 14

Microclimate

Answer 14

Patterns on global regional and landscape level

Question 15

Microclimate

Answer 15

Incredibly small patterns such as under a log

Question 16

March equinox

Answer 16

Neither pole tilts towards son all regions on earth experience 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness

Question 17

December solstice

Answer 17

NorthernNorthern hemisphere tilts away from sun shortest day and longest night

Question 18

September equinox

Answer 18

Tilting away from sun Earth experiences 12 hours a day and 12 hours of night

Question 19

June solstice

Answer 19

North hemisphere tilts towards the sun longest day and shortest night

Question 20

Abiotic

Answer 20

Nonliving

Temperature light water nutrients

Question 21

Biotic

Answer 21

living factors

Question 22

Terrestrial biome

Answer 22

Major living zones on earth identified by plant life

Question 23

Aquatic biomes

Answer 23

Major living area on earth characterized by physical environment

Question 24

Climograph

Answer 24

Graph of annual average temperature and precipitation in particular region

Question 25

Ectone

Answer 25

Overlapping of biomes

Question 26

Canopy

Answer 26

Lower tree layer shrub understory and ground later otherwise known as forest floor and root layer

Question 27

Disturbance

Answer 27

Storm fire or detrimental human activity voiding area of life and altering resources

Question 28

Name the terrestrial biomes

Answer 28

Tropical forest desert Savannah chaparral temperate grassland northern coniferous forest temperate broadleaf forest and tundra

Question 29

Photic zone of aquatic biomes

Answer 29

Sufficient light for photosynthesis

Question 30

Aphorism zone of a quantic by on

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Little light

Question 31

What is that pelagic zone of an aquatic biomes

Answer 31

The photic and aphotic zone’s together

Question 32

The abyssal zone of the aquatic biomes

Answer 32

Deep part of aphotic zone

Question 33

Benthic zone of aquatic biomes

Answer 33

Very bottom of aquatic biomes inhabited by many organisms

Question 34

Benthos aquatic biomes

Answer 34

Organisms collected in benthic zone

Question 35

Detritus of aquatic biomes

Answer 35

Major food Source for benthos zone is dead matter often rains down from photic zone

Question 36

Thermocline

Answer 36

Layer of abrupt temperature change found in aquatic biomes

Question 37

Tropical rain forest

Answer 37

Terrestrial Biome with relatively high temp and precipitation

Question 38

biological hierarchy

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