ESCI-1101 Final Exam Review (new content)

A life zone is the zonation of plants with altitude.

____ are generally found at the equatorial region, and they have dense, diverse, and evergreen vegetation

Which of the following is true about Tropical Savannas?

____ is bending of waves as they approach the shore, aligning themselves with the bottom contours in the breaking zone

The smallest marine plants and animals

Which of the following is an example of a limiting factor?

What is a loam?

A ____ is the type of environment where an organism resides or has adapted to live in

A ____ is the function of a life form within a given community

What is Porosity?

Which of the following is a natural factor that affects soil?

____ forests have needleleaf evergreen trees and their moisture regions support temperate rainforests

A cat (lions, tigers, and domestic cats) would be what level on the energy pyramid?

All of the following are abiotic components that affect ecosystem development EXCEPT:

What does color indicate about a soil?

Slopes are inclined surfaces that make up landforms.

Secondary production is the process in which new material is created via photosynthesis

Boreal forests can be found in Northern Canada, Alaska, and in Siberia

A coast is the area from the shoreline to the first major landform change

A bay barrier is material deposited in a long ridge extending out from a coast

Very few fish can be found in the Gulf of Mexico during the Spring because of a lack of dissolved oxygen

Xerophytes are plants with mechanisms to combat downpours

Which of the following is an example of physical weathering?

Why does salinity vary from place to place?

What is the correct order of each sediment from smallest to largest?

Layer the parts of the ocean from shallowest to deepest

A silt is a sediment that is less than .002 mg big

Hydrolysis is when water by itself reacts with a rock

Permeability is the rate at which water can pass through

Littoral drifting where waves break at an angle to the shoreline and move sediment along the beach in a zigzag fashion

____ is the distant removal of rock material.

What is weathering?

Carbonation is when ____ and water molecules react with and decompose rocks.

____ is the study of the distribution of plants and animals and the spatial patterns they create

____ coasts that are typically high relief, rugged, and tectonically active

Exfoliation is a type of physical weathering involving the erosional stripping of overlying rocks

____ is the downslope movement of broken rock due to gravity

Charlotte is in this biome. In this biome, dense broadleaf trees bloom in the summer and lose their leaves in the fall

What is used to slow down drift action along the coast?

Why are desert animals typically nocturnal?

Soils are thin and poorly developed on steep slopes because sediment erodes more on steeper slopes

A barrier spit is a barrier grows and completely cuts off a bay from the ocean

A sequence of plant communities that an area of natural vegetation undergoes over time, starting with a few plants

Which of the following is NOT one of the four major terrestrial biomes?

Which of the following is NOT a soil component?

A ____ is a soil profile from the surface to the deepest extent of plant roots, or to where you encounter bedrock

Why do so much plankton appear off the Gulf of Mexico during the spring?

The moon has half of the control on tides as the sun does

Mr. Krabs would be considered benthos because he lives on the ocean surface

What is it called when we replace the sand at the beach?

A ____ shows each distinct layer exposed in a pedon

The classification of soil is referred to as ____

Which type of mass movement is depicted in this image?

All of the following are examples of abiotic factors EXCEPT:

Humus is decayed remains of plant and animal material that supplies nutrients and minerals to soil.

____ are types of terrestrial ecosystems associated with specific range of temperature and precipitation characteristics

____ is the exact contact between the edge of a standing body of water and dry land

Which soil horizon is located at the top of the soil horizon?

What percent of energy is kept after each level of the energy pyramid?

Calculate the tidal range if the high tide was 10 feet and the low tide was 4 feet

All of the following are examples of biotic factors except

Marine animals that swim in the ocean

Unloading is the successful removal of the outer rocks.

What is used to block a harbor entrance?

What is a tombolo?

____ is the study of landforms.

Scarification is human-induced mass-movement

How do we typicall express salinity?

____ weathering decomposes rock through chemical reactions that remove ions from the original rock.