1. Terrestrial
Biomes
Climate
Evolution
Aquatic
Biomes
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2. Large ecological regions with characteristic types of natural, undisturbed communities are known as

3. What are biomes

4. A biome with average annual precipitation less than 10 inches

5. What is a desert

6. The primary limiting factor in a tropical rain forest biome

7. What is soil nutrients

8. 3 Climate conditions of arctic tundra

9. Freezing temperatures, lack of sunlight, constant high winds

10. This biome would most likely be found in the zone lying between forest and desert

11. What is grasslands

12. The difference between climate and weather

13. What is climate is the average conditions, weather is what is currently happening

14. Two most important factors in climate

15. What is temperature and precipitation

16. Ozone in the ______ layer is beneficial, whereas ozone in the ______ layer is harmful

17. What is stratosphere, trophosphere

18. The rain shadow effect is caused by

19. What is the drier conditions on the leeward side of a mountain

20. 3 properties of air that create air circulation patterns

21. What is warm air rises, cool air sinks, warm air hold more water than cool air

22. 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

23. What is natural selection

24. A heritable trait that enables an organism to survive and reproduce better under prevailing environmental conditions

25. What is an adaptation

26. The earliest form of life was probably

27. What is anaerobic prokaryotes

28. Geographic isolation can lead to these 3 things

29. What is reproductive isolation, divergence of gene pools, and speciation

30. Three conditions that are necessary for biological evolution to occur

31. What is genetic variability within a population, heritable traits and traits that lead to differential reproduction

32. 2 main factors that determine life in aquatic zones

33. What is salinity and depth (amount of sunlight)

34. Most photosynthesis in the open sea occurs in this zone

35. What is euphotic

36. An aquatic zone with variable temperature and salinity

37. What is an estuary

38. Moving water is known as a _______ system

39. What is lotic

40. A tuna would be classified as a member of the ______

41. What is nekton

42. A change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations

43. What is evolution

44. The process in which one species evolves into a variety of species

45. What is divergent evolution

46. Earth’s atmosphere most likely gained oxygen through the evolution of

47. What is photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms

48. Nights are cold in the deserts because

49. Deserts dry air don’t hold moisture and therefore heat

50. Hydrothermal vents with chemosynthetic organisms would be found in this ocean zone

51. What is abyssal