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APES - Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| variety of different species; genetic variability among individuals in each species | biodiversity |
| Index to measure the degree of concentration when individuals are classified into types | Simpson Index |
| Cone-bearing Plants | Coniferous (evergreen) |
| 3 types of deserts | Tropical, temperate, and polar |
| example of tropical desert | Saudi Arabia |
| example of temperate desert | Mojave in California |
| example of cold desert | Gobi in China |
| describe desert plants | widely spread, shallow roots. Spongy tissues, sharp spines |
| Biome for high temps year round, little rain | Tropical desert |
| Biome for high daytime temps in summer, low in winter, more precip | Temperate desert |
| Biome for cold winters, hot summers, low precip | Cold desert |
| Three types of Grasslands | Tropical, temperate, polar |
| main type of tropical grassland | Savanna |
| types of temperate grasslands | Prairies, pampas, veldts, steppes |
| Biome for high temps, two dry seasons, lots of rains the rest of the year,with deciduous shrubs and trees | Savannas |
| Biome with grasses but no trees and seasonal extremes of hot and cold. | temperate grasslands |
| another name for Polar Grasslands | Arctic Tundra |
| Biome with no trees, bitterly cold, covered with ice and snow | Polar grasslands |
| Another name for temperate shrubland | Chaparral |
| three main types of forests | Tropical, temperate, boreal (polar) |
| biome near equator, hot, moist air dumps lots of rain | Tropical rain forest |
| Parts of rain forest, from top to bottom | Emergent layer, canopy, understory, shrub layer, and ground layer |
| Biome with long warm summers, cold but not severe winters, lots of precip | Temperate deciduous forests |
| what type of forest has most biological diversity? | Tropical rain forests |
| other names for Evergreen Coniferous Forests | Boreal forests, taigas |
| Where are Boreal forests or taigas found ? | Just south of arctic tundra |
| Where found ? Monkey | Tropical rain forest |
| Where found ? Deer | Temperate deciduous forest |
| Where found ? Moose | Evergreen coniferous forests |
| Where found ? Jackrabbit | Desert |
| Order of forests, from Arctic down to Equator | Polar tundra, coniferous, deciduous, tropical |
| Where found ? Elephant | Savanna |
| a statistic used for comparing the similarity and diversity of sample sets. | Jaccard index |
| terrestrial regions inhabited by certain types of life | biomes |
| wild species with so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct | Endangered species |
| a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness of isolated natural communities | Island Biogeography |
| sequential development of communities in a bare area that has never been occupied by a community of organisms | Primary Succession |
| sequential development of communities in an area in which natural vegetation has been removed or destroyed but the soil is not destroyed | Secondary Succession |
| first hardy species which begin colonizing a site as the first stage of ecological succession | Pioneer species |
| when one set of species makes an area suitable for species with different niche ruqirements | Facilitation |
| when an early species hinders the establishment and growth of other species | Inhibition |
| uncut forests that have not been seriously disturbed for at least several hundred years | Old-growth forests |
| An index that quantify the entropy (uncertainty or information content) in strings of text | Shannon-Weiner index |
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