1. Ecology Notes

2. Biomagnification A pollutant moves up the food chain
It affects organisms at the top of the food chain the most.

3. Renewable resources
Replenish themselves over time.

4. Freshwater zones Littoral: near the shore Limnetic zone: open water
Benthic zone: lake bottom

5. Ocean zones
Intertidal: shoreline between high and low tides. Like th elittoral zone
Neritic zone: shore to edge of continental shelf
Bathyal zone: open water down to about 2000 meters
Abyssal zone: >2000 meters to bottom. No light

6. Terrestrial zones Polar: between poles and arctic or antarctic circle
Temperate: between Arctic circle and Tropic of Cancer or Antarctic circle and the Tropic of Capricorn
Tropical: from Tropic of Cancer to Tropic of Capricorn

7. Rain forest

8. Succession

12. Chapparal

14. Desert

16. Prairie

17. Savanna

18. Taiga

19. Rain Forest

20. Tundra

22. Temperate forest

25. Steppes

26. Palouse

27. Badlands of New Mexico

28. Badlands of South Dakota