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What’s the nonliving part of the environment including water, rocks, light, nutrients, soil, and temperature.

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Abiotic (factors).

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What’s the AVERAGE weather conditions for an environment (usually on a yearly or monthly basis).

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Climate

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What is The DAILY environmental conditions. These can change from day to day or even from hour to hour.

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Weather

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What are the Living factors of an environment, such as bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.

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Biotic (factors)

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Relating to a living organism, a living entity.

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Organic

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What is A living thing ; anything that can carry out life processes independently.

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An Organism

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What’s A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical areas.

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Population

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What’s A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.

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Species

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What’re All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.

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Community

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What’s A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.

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Ecosystem

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What’s The part of earth where life exists.

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Biosphere

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What’s the Study of the geographic distribution on plants and animals.

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Biogeography

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What’re Species that evolved in the defined area.

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Native (Ingenious) species

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What’re Species from another area living in a foreign environment.

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Invasive (Transplant) species

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Zebra Mussels and Fire Ants.

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Are accidental transplants.

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Kudzu

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A purposeful transplant.

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What’s a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities.

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Biomes

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Sun, wind, and rain (patterns).

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Are climate patterns.

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Oceans, mountains, ponds, and lakes.

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Are local effects.

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What local effects act as heat banks. (coastal/island areas generally warmer than interior areas) The water absorbs the sunlight’s energy (so we don’t fry) during the day and releases the energy at night to keep the dark side of the planet warm?

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What are oceans.

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What local effects create a rain shadow effect which creates deserts on the backside. As the winds come off the water, they are heavy with moisture. When those winds run into mountains, the air is forced upward resulting in the moisture getting cooler and condensing resulting in lots of rain on the front side of the mountain. With no moisture left as the winds reach the backside or “shadow side” of the mountain, you get deserts typically. (Look at California and Nevada.)?

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Mountains create this local effect.

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Wind increases with what?

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Altitude.

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Animals tend to be furrier and plants seem to be smaller…….

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In high altitudes (which happens to be windy).

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Temperatures on average drop how many degrees Celsius for each how many meters up altitude.

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6 degrees Celsius and 1000 meters up.

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What is the stratification of temperatures which create layers of differing temperatures within a body of water which leads to thermoclines and turnover of nutrients and O2. This is ultimately due to seasonal changes in temperature.Warmer water rises and colder water sinks. Ice on the surfaces helps prevent this in winter so that the whole body of water does not freeze and thereby kill all life forms in the body of water an example of?

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Ponds and lakes acting as local effects.

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What are temperature gradients (layers) that occur within a body of
water as water heats or cools?

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Thermoclines

27
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What are small ecosystems/environments, such as under a log or your backyard?

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Microclimates

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What’s the abiotic and biotic factors that act upon organisms and ultimately determine its form and survival.

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Environment

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What’s study of the interactions in living organisms with one another and their environment.

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Ecology

30
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What biomes are initially responsible for rainfall and global temperature regulation by absorbing solar energy?

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Aquatic biomes.

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Roughly 75% of the Earth’s surface is covered by what?

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Aquatic biomes

32
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Name all the zones that are part of the marine system.

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Photic Zone
Aphotic Zone
Benthic Zone
Intertidal Zone
Coral Reef (optional).
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What is the bottom on the ocean called?

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Benthic Zone

34
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What is the lower region with no light penetration called?

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Aphotic zone.

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What is the upper region with light penetration.

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A Photic Zone

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What is the deepest part of the benthic zone; deep sea trenches mostly called?

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The abyss

37
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What’s the harsh environment due to the constant waves; rich in biodiversity; light is present for photosynthesis called?

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Intertidal Zone

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What is the very rich in biodiversity; endangered (now protected); found in warm water climates called?

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The coral reef

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What are 2 regions in fresh water, such as lakes, and ponds?

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Littoral Zone

Benthic zone

40
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What’s shallow water; light that’s present for photosynthesis called?

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Littoral Zone

41
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What’s the bottom area; that may or may not receive sunlight called?

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Benthic Zone

42
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Name 4 streams and rivers.

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Headwaters
Midstream
Estuary
Wetlands

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_________ are generally located in the mountains.

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Headwaters- These are generally located in the mountains.

44
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__________ are located between the mountains and the coast.

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Midstream- These are located between the mountains and the coast.

45
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This is where fresh water meets salt water; very rich in biodiversity.

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Estuary

46
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Which biome helps with oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption due to phytoplankton performing photosynthesis?

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Aquatic biome

47
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Which biome helps with oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption due to phytoplankton performing photosynthesis?

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The Aquatic biome

48
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These are lands possessing water and above water plants; they are very rich in biodiversity.

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Wetlands

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