Ecosystem 04

Question 0

What is hydrosphere?

Answer 0

All the water on earth including lakes, oceans and rivers

Question 1

What is biosphere?

Answer 1

Made up of three parts: lithosphere, atmosphere & hydrosphere

Question 2

What is lithosphere?

Answer 2

Solid mineral material that covers earth, including the soil

Question 3

What is atmosphere?

Answer 3

Blanket of air that covers Earth

Question 4

What is a biosphere?

Answer 4

A giant ecosystem:
•All biotic and abiotic part of it are related: each affects the others
•The loss of one species has an effect on another

Question 5

What is weather?

Answer 5

Local conditions that change from day to day, hour to hour

Question 6

What is climate?

Answer 6

The average weather pattern of a region

Question 7

What is a biome?

Answer 7

Large area with characteristic climate, soil, plants and animals
•Each type of biome can be found in a different part of the world
•Contains many different kinds of ecosystems
•Six major biomes on Earth (ice isn’t a biome)

Question 8

What are the biomes in Canada?

Answer 8

Tundra
Temperate Forest
Boreal Forest
Grassland

Question 9

What are the 6 major biomes?

Answer 9

Boreal Forest
Temperate Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Desert
Tropical Rain Forest

Question 10

What is succession?

Answer 10

•Can take hundreds, thousands of years
•Usually has positive effects
•Can have negative effects if happen too fast
e.x.- lake filling up and overflowing due to extra growth due to chemicals in water from human farming run-off into a stream

Question 11

What is primary succession?

Answer 11

Is the gradual growth of organisms in an area that was previously bare, such as rock.

Question 12

What is secondary succession?

Answer 12

Secondary succession is the gradual growth of organisms in a area that previously had a number of organisms