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Climate
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Aquatic Biomes
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Large ecological regions with characteristic
types of natural, undisturbed communities are
known as
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What are biomes
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A biome with average annual precipitation less
than 10 inches
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What is a desert
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The primary limiting factor in a tropical rain
forest biome
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What is soil nutrients
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3 Climate conditions of arctic tundra
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Freezing temperatures, lack of sunlight, constant
high winds
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This biome would most likely be found in the zone
lying between forest and desert
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What is grasslands
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The difference between climate and weather
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What is climate is the average conditions,
weather is what is currently happening
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Two most important factors in climate
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What is temperature and precipitation
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Ozone in the ______ layer is beneficial, whereas
ozone in the ______ layer is harmful
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What is stratosphere, trophosphere
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The rain shadow effect is caused by
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What is the drier conditions on the leeward side
of a mountain
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3 properties of air that create air circulation
patterns
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What is warm air rises, cool air sinks, warm air
hold more water than cool air
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Within a population due to competition between
individuals, those individuals with an advantage
will survive and pass on their genes to the next
generation. This is the basis of
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What is natural selection
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A heritable trait that enables an organism to
survive and reproduce better under prevailing
environmental conditions
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What is an adaptation
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The earliest form of life was probably
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What is anaerobic prokaryotes
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Geographic isolation can lead to these 3 things
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What is reproductive isolation, divergence of
gene pools, and speciation
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Three conditions that are necessary for
biological evolution to occur
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What is genetic variability within a population,
heritable traits and traits that lead to
differential reproduction
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2 main factors that determine life in aquatic
zones
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What is salinity and depth (amount of sunlight)
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Most photosynthesis in the open sea occurs in
this zone
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What is euphotic
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An aquatic zone with variable temperature and
salinity
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What is an estuary
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Moving water is known as a _______ system
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What is lotic
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A tuna would be classified as a member of the
______
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What is nekton
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A change in the genetic composition of a
population over successive generations
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What is evolution
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The process in which one species evolves into a
variety of species
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What is divergent evolution
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Earths atmosphere most likely gained oxygen
through the evolution of
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What is photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms
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Nights are cold in the deserts because
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Deserts dry air dont hold moisture and therefore
heat
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Hydrothermal vents with chemosynthetic organisms
would be found in this ocean zone
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What is abyssal