December

Question 1

what is the biosphere?

Answer 1

is one of the Earth´s 4 interconnected systems

Question 2

what includes the biosphere?

Answer 2

all ecosystems

Question 3

what includes the biota

Answer 3

all living things in the biosphere

Question 4

what includes the hydrosphere?

Answer 4

water ice and water vapor

Question 5

what includes the atmosphere?

Answer 5

air blanketing Earth´s solid and liquid surface

Question 6

what includes geosphere?

Answer 6

Geologic features above and below Earth´s surface

Question 7

What considers Earth as a kind of living organism?

Answer 7

The Gaia Hypotesis

Question 8

To what interact Earth ecosystems?

Answer 8

to yield biosphere capable of supporting life

Question 9

Who developed the GAIA hypotesis?

Answer 9

James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis

Question 10

is a key abiotic factor that affects the biosphere?

Answer 10

Climate

Question 11

What is climate

Answer 11

is a long-term pattern of weather conditions

Question 12

What key factors shape the area´s climate?

Answer 12

temperature sunlight water and wind

Question 13

what is a microclimate?

Answer 13

is the climate of a small specific place within an area

Question 14

What are the three main climate zones of the earth

Answer 14

polar tropical and temperate

Question 15

explain the polar

Answer 15

the far northern and southern areas of the earth

Question 16

explain the tropical

Answer 16

surrounds the ecuator

Question 17

explain the temperate

Answer 17

the wide area between polar and tropical zones

Question 18

what affects the tilt?

Answer 18

wind and ocean currents

Question 19

what affects inland climates?

Answer 19

larger changes in temperature

Question 20

What shape coastal climates

Answer 20

smaller changes in temperatures, higher humidity and more precipitation

Question 21

Where does precipitation occurs in the case of the mountains?

Answer 21

on the side of the mountain facing wind

Question 22

what produces rain shadow?

Answer 22

drier and cooler air in the other side of the mountain

Question 23

What is a rain shadow?

Answer 23

an area of decreased precipitation

Question 24

What survive in an specific climate due to the adaptations?

Answer 24

Many organisms

Question 25

what does every population has?

Answer 25

a dipersion, a density and a reproductive strategy

Question 26

is a measurement of the number of individuals living in a defined space

Answer 26

population density

Question 27

what are the 3 types of dispersion

Answer 27

clumped, uniform, and random

Question 28

How does population grows?

Answer 28

in predictable patterns

Question 29

the size of population is always...

Answer 29

changing

Question 30

what factors affect the size of the population

Answer 30

immigration, births, emigration and deaths

Question 31

what is exponential growth?

Answer 31

a rapid population increase due to an abundance of resources

Question 32

what is logistic growth?

Answer 32

is due to a population facing limited resources

Question 33

what is carrying capacity?

Answer 33

is the maxium number of individuals in an enviroment a population can suppport

Question 34

what is population crash?

Answer 34

is a dramatic decline in the size of population over a short period of time

Question 35

is something that keeps the size of a population down...

Answer 35

limiting factor

Question 36

is the process of change in the species that make up a community

Answer 36

Ecological succesion

Question 37

what does succesion make?

Answer 37

regenerates

Question 38

who regenerates in the primary succesion

Answer 38

pioneer species

Question 39

who regenerates in secondary succesion

Answer 39

bu remaining species