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CH 6 VOCAB

TermDefinition
Biome is a group of ecosystems that share similar abiotic and biotic conditions
Climate describes the average conditions, including temperature and precipitation, over long periods in a given time.
Weather the day-to-day conditions in Earth's atmosphere like "sunny and humid" or "cold and snowy".
Climatographs describe the conditions in a biome
Net primary production is the organic matter, or biomass, that remains after cellular respiration.
Canopy the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.
Emergent layer the tallest trees pop through the canopy and make up the top layer of the rain forest
Understory the shrubs and plants growing beneath the main canopy of a forest
Epiphytes are plants that grow on other plants instead of in soil.
Deciduous trees lose their leaves and stop photosynthesis during part of the year.
Estivation when conditions are dry, some animals enter a deep, sleeplike period of dormancy
Coniferous trees that produce seed-bearing cones
Hibernation is a deep, sleeplike state that an animal enter for most of the winter.
Permafrost because of the cold-climate, underground soil remains frozen year-round
Salinity measures the amount of salts dissolved in water
Photic zone where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis
Aphotic zone where no sunlight penetrates and photosynthesis cannot occur
Benthic zone the very bottom of a body of water
Littoral zone the shallow near-shore-portion of the photic zone
Limnetic zone is farther from the shore, where there are no rooted plants
Wetlands are areas of land that are flooded with water at least part of the year
Flood plain areas adjacent to rivers, ponds, lakes, and oceans that are periodically flooded at different points in time.
Estuaries are bodies of water, partly enclosed by land, that occur where fresh water from land drainage meets the water of an ocean or inland sea
Upwelling is a process by surface waters are replaced by deep, cold, nutrient-rich water that “wells up” from below.
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