Question | Answer |
What is the general pattern of Marine Communities | The vast majority of Earth is covered by water (70%), includes many ecosystems. |
What are the physical features and some living things found in shallow open waters | Crabs, sea stars, snails, clams, receives most light from the sun, has many animals. |
What are the physical features and some living things found in open sea surface waters | Sharks, dolphins, crocodile, alligator, receives some light, vast waters, few animals. |
What are the physical features and some living things found in deep sea waters | Octopus, dragon fish, jellyfish, angler fish, receives no sunlight, very cold. |
Why can't photosynthesis occur in the deep ocean? How do creatures who live there get energy? | Because light cant reach in the deep ocean. The creatures eat other creatures, some use light to attract there prey. |
What is the general pattern of Fresh Water Communities | Only 3% of water on Earth is fresh, most of it is in the form of ground water. |
What is a biome | A large naturally community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat. |
What are tropical rain forests | This is a forest of tall trees in a region that is warm all year round and has lot's of rain. |
What are savannas | This has low rainfall, has periods of drought, inhabited by grasses, and some trees and shrubs. |
What are deserts | This has low rainfall, hot in the day and cold at night, few plants and animals, sandy. |
What are temperate grasslands | This is a large area of grasses, flowers and herbs, has annual precipitation. |
What are temperate deciduous forests | This is found between the polar and tropic regions, have four seasons, have lots of trees and plants. |
What is a taiga | This has very long and cold winters, during winters there are heavy snowfall, in summer it is humid and has rain, has poor soil. |
What is a tundra | This has extremely low temperatures, little precipitation, and not a lot of trees or plants. |
What are invasive species | These are animals that move to a different area than which they came from. |
How are Zebra Mussel hurt Michigan's ecology | These clog intake pipes at power plants and water sources. |
How are Garlic Mussel hurt Michigan's ecology | Grows earlier in spring than native plants, crowds out native plants. |
How are Emerald Ash Borer hurt Michigan's ecology | These kill millions of trees each year. |
What is a population | This is a group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area. |
What is a carrying capacity | This is the largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can support. |
What is exponential growth | This is the growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate. |
What is populous | This heavily populated; having many inhabitants. |
What is sustainability | This is the power to supply with needed nourishment. |
How does oil form | This is formed when plants and animals get compressed overtime creating this. |
How much manpower is equivalent to one barrel of oil | Twelve people working all time all year to equal one barrel of this. |
What percentage of a barrel of oil is used for transportation purposes | 70%. |
What percent of transportation fuel is oil | 98%. |
Why is it difficult for experts to identify how much oil remains in the world's reserves | Experts exaggerate about the remains of oil for political reasons. |
In Earths crust, there is good, inexpensive, easy oil and there is bad, pricey, difficult oil. Which oil has been drilled and used far | Crude oil. |