Chapter 58 - The Biosphere

Question 1

What does the biosphere include?

Answer 1

All living communities on Earth

Question 2

Global patterns on Earth are influenced by what? 2

Answer 2

1. amount of solar radiation that reaches different areas 2. Patterns of global atmospheric circulation

Question 3

Earth’s source of energy?

Answer 3

The sun

Question 4

What is modified when solar radiation passes through the atm?

Answer 4

It’s intensity and wavelength composition

Question 5

What does intensity of solar radiation depend on?

Answer 5

Latitude

Question 6

What does Earth’s orbit around the sun affect? Why?

Answer 6

Climate due to its axis

Question 7

Biome?

Answer 7

Major types of ecosystem on land

Question 8

What are biomes named after?

Answer 8

Distinctive plant life because plants determine everything else

Question 9

Eight major biomes in order?

Answer 9

Tropical rain forest
Savanna
Desert
Temperate grassland
Temperate deciduous forest
Temperate evergreen
Taiga 
Tundra

Question 10

What does heating at equator cause?

Answer 10

Air to rise

Question 11

What is rising air rich in? What does it cause?

Answer 11

Water vapor which cause frequent rain

Question 12

How does warm air move?

Answer 12

North and south

Question 13

Where does dry air go at 30 degrees latitude

Answer 13

It descends (desert region)

Question 14

Where does air go at 60 degrees

Answer 14

It rises

Question 15

What is an upwelling region?

Answer 15

Deep water is constantly drawn to the surface