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Flashcards by kaylakring, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by kaylakring
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| Question | Answer |
| Ecosystem | An assemblage of interacting organisms and their physical environment. ex. plants, animals |
| Biomes | Planet-scale terrestrial and aquatic regions with similar climate conditions- mainly temperature and moisture. ex. Tundra |
| Ecosphere | The zone where life is found ex. Earth |
| Lithosphere/geosphere | The rigid outer part of the Earth ex. crust, mantle, volcanoes, soils, plate tectonics |
| Cryosphere | The frozen water part of Earth's system. Stores fresh water, has large sheets of ice and the regulation of the flux of regional temperatures. ex. Beaufort Sea |
| Biosphere | The regions of the surface, atmosphere and hydrosphere, the Earth occupied by living organisms. ex. deer, humans, wolves, any species. |
| Atmosphere | Contribution of gases used to regulate Earth's temperature, carbon cycle, water cycle. ex. oxygen, carbon dioxide, methane |
| Hydrosphere | All the waters on the Earth's surface. ex. lakes, seas, rivers, fresh water, salt water |
| Biotic | Living things or their materials that directly or indirectly affect an organism in its environment. ex. disease, parasitism, predation |
| Abiotic | Non-living physical and chemical factors which affect the ability of organisms to survive and reproduce. ex. temperature range>penguins, water availability, level of pollution |
| Habitat | Place or type of place where an organisms or population of organisms live ex. squirrel in a tree trunk |
| System | Collections of components/parts that are related to each other. ex. BLANK |
| Components of Systems | BLANK>Professor Isom |
| Environmental Context | BLANK>Professor Isom |
| Spatially Defined Area | BLANK>Professor Isom |
| Gradients of Environmental Conditions | A range of organisms both capable and non-capable of living within any set of environmental conditions: from optimal or marginal conditions. Ex. Hot to cold = gradient, Wet to dry = gradient |
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