Bio Ch 3

Average weather conditions in an area, including temperature & precipitation.

Material that's deposited by water, wind or glaciers.

Area of lake or pond that's closest to the shore.

Establishment of a community in an area with exposed rock that doesn't have topsoil.

Free floating photosynthetic autotrophs that live in freshwater or marine ecosystems.

Fertilizers increase the amount of nutrients in an aquatic biome.

If producers are decreased, then the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will _.

zone where organisms cannot survive

Where small numbers can survive difficult conditions

Ecosystem that's formed where a freshwater, river or stream, merges with the ocean.

Frogs and Floating Water Plants primarily live in what freshwater zone?

The open water area that is well lit and is dominated by plankton.

The range of high and low extremes of tolerance for an environmental factor.

Ability of any organism to survive when subjected to abiotic factors or biotic factors.

Area of sand, silt and dead organisms along the ocean floor.

Temperature, Rainfall, Dirt Chemistry, Nutrients, Oxygen, Sunlight, Climate.

Sunlight, climate, temperature, water, nutrients, fire, soil, space, other living things.

Area with low rainfall; annual rate of evaporation exceeds its annual rate of precipitation.

A change after a community of organisms has been removed but soil remained intact.

Deepest areas of a large lake, much colder and lower in oxygen than the other two zones.

Narrow band where the ocean meets land.

Area of the ocean to a depth of about 200cm that's shallow enough for sunlight to penetrate.

Predator, Prey, Producers, Food, Plants

Area of the ocean that's too deep for sunlight to penetrate.

Large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities.

Process where one community replaces another because of changing abiotic and biotic factors.

Deepest region of the ocean.

Group of interacting populations that live in the same geographic area at the same time.

Chemoautotrophs are producers that trap chemical energy to make their own food.

Fire causes ___succession.

Treeless biome with a layer of permanetly frozen soil.

Stable, mature community that results when there's little change in the composition of species.

Range of conditions that are most favorable for an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.

Light can be a limiting factor in which marine zone?

Hot, wet biome with year round humidity; contains earths most diverse species.

Lake turnover causes an increase in oxygen in the ____ zone.

Abiotic and biotic factor that restricts numbers, reproduction or distribution of organisms.