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Stack #4630224
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| biome | is a group of ecosystems that share similar abiotic conditions |
| climate | describes the average conditions including temperature and precipitation over long periods in a given area |
| weather | the day to day conditions in earths atmosphere like sunny and humid or cold and snowy |
| climatopgrahs | to describe the conditions in a biome |
| net primary production | is the organic matter or biomass that remains after cellular respiration |
| canopy | tall trees form a dense covering, called the ...... that towers 50 to 80 meters above the ground |
| emergent layer | the tallest trees pop through the canopy and make up the top layer of the rain forest known as the .... |
| understory | shorter trees and plants that make up the ..... complete for available light |
| epiphytes | are plants that grow on other plants instead of in soil |
| deciduos | trees lose their leaves and stop photosynthesis during part of the year |
| estivation | when conditions are dry some animals enter a deep sleep like period of dormancy called ... |
| coniferous | many evergreen species in the temperate rain forest are .... trees , trees that produce seed bearing cones |
| hibernation | is a deep sleep like state that an animal enters for most of the winter |
| permafrost | because of the cold climate underground soul remains frozen year-round and is called ... |
| salinity | measures the amount of salts dissolved in water |
| photic zone | the uppermost layer of an aquatic ecosystem where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis is called the .... |
| aphotic zone | where no sunlight penetrates and photosynthesis cannot occur |
| benthic zone | the very bottom of a body of water is called the ... depending on the depth and clarity of the water benthic zones can be sunlit or pitch dark |
| littoral zone | the shallow near-shore potion of the photic zone is named the ... |
| limnetic zone | is farther from the shore where there are no rooted plants |
| wetlands | are areas of land that flood with water at least part of the year |
| flood plain | areas nearest a river course that are flooded periodically are said to be within the rivers .... |
| upwelling | the vertical flow of cold nutrient-rich water toward the surface occurs where horizontal currenst diverge or flow away from one another |
| vv bnn nb;. |
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