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What is the Tundra Biome location, description, plants, and animals. |
Location:Near N. Pole Description: Winter, ground frozen year round, Arctic Plants: Grass, Moss, Lichens, Low growing Animals: insects, birds, caribou, arctic animals |
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What is the Taiga Biome location, description, plants, and animals. |
Location: 50-60 N Description: winter and summer, Sub Arctic Plants: Coniferous, cone bearing trees. Animals: Bear, Wolf, Arctic Fox, Prey birds |
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What is the Deciduous Forest Biome location, description, plants, and animals. |
Location: 23 N-38 S Description: Varies Plants: Maple, Oak, Beech Animals: Anything in Michigan |
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What is the Desert Biome location, description, plants, and animals. |
Location: 15-35 N&S Description: dry, less than 10 inches of percipitation, wide temp. range Plants: Cacti, Yucca, Small waxy plants Animals: snakes, lizards, rabbits |
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What is the Grasslands Biome location, description, plants, and animals. |
Location: 55 N - 30 S Description: Flat to Rolling hills, 2 seasons, Growing and Dormant Plants: grasses and weeds Animals: grazing animals, insects, turkeys, elk |
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What is the Tropical Rainforest Biome location, description, plants, and animals. |
Location: 0-23 N&S Description: Flat and Tropical Plants: Large Trees Animals: reptiles, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians |
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That is Ecology? How does Ecosystems fit into ecology? |
Study of biotic and abiotic relationships and ecology is how they act and their physical surroundings. |
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What is Biotic and Abiotic Factors? |
Biotic: Non-living organisms Abiotic: Living organisms |
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What is a community? |
All living things in an area |
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What is a population? |
The amount of a specie in an area |
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How do you know if animals are apart of the same specie? |
they can give off-springs sexually |
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What is a habitat and what elements must it provide? |
A place where an animal can meet their needs of food, water, shelter, space |
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What happens to a population if an element is limited in a community? |
It would decrease |
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What Niche might an oak tree fill in a ecosystem? |
Shelter, provide shade, provide food, provide oxygen. |
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What are the 6 stages of Succession? |
1.) Bare Soil 0-3 2.) Pioneer Plants 3-5 3.) Shrubs 5-10 4.) Shade Intolerant Trees 10-25 5.) Shade Tolerant Trees 25-100 6.) Climax 100+ |
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What is Primary and Secondary Succession? |
Primary: Starts on Bare Rock Secondary: Starts where soil already exist |
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What is Eutrophication? |
The aging of water |
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What is the difference between Natural and Cultural Eutrophication? |
Natural: Gets nutrients on its own causing aging to take centuries. Cultural: Humans bring nutrients into the water making it age faster. |
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What are the main elements that cause eutrophication? |
Nitrogen and Phosphorus |
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What are 3 ways these elements can enter the watershed? |
Fertilizer, Manure, Soap |
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What are 3 ways we can slow down cultural eutrophication? |
Don't fertilize before storms, use less soap, correctly store waste. |
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If a lake is anoxic, what does this mean? |
There is no oxygen and it is dead. |
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Steps of Eutrophication. |
1.) Nutrients enter the water. 2.) Algae grows on the ground of the lake 3.) Algae grows on top of water causing Algae on bottom to die 4.) Bacteria decomposes dead plants and takes up all the oxygen. 5.) Fish die 6.) Lake dies |
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Study Lake Eutrophication Chart |
Study Lake Eutrophication Chart |
