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APES Unit three study guide
1.What are all the things wind circulates
2. define weather
3. The two most important factors determining the climate of an area are
4. Where does the largest input of solar energy occur?
5. What is the greenhouse effect?
6. Name the greenhouse gases.
7. The rain shadow effect refers to
8. define biome
9. The most important factor in determining which biome is found in a particular area is
10. Desert soils take hundreds of years to recover from disturbances because of (Why are they fragile ecosystems)
11. adaptations of plants that live in the desert
12. "Widely scattered clumps of trees, warm temperatures year-round, alternating dry and wet seasons, with herds of herbivores" are
the characteristics of
13. "Treeless, bitterly cold most of the year, winters are long and dark, low-growing plants, permafrost" are the characteristics of
which of the following?
14. characteristics of prairies.
15. the big disadvantage of living in a chaparral region
16. Most of the nutrients in the tropical rain forests are found in the
17. Trees of the tropical rainforest are characterized by leaves that are
18. If you are walking through a forest dense with oak and hickory trees and thick with leaf litter underfoot, you would assume you are
in a
19. Which biome has been the most disturbed by human activities?
20. What are ways humans have degraded forest ecosystems?
There will be 7 questions pertaining to the following climate graphs
28. saltwater or marine aquatic life zones
29. the freshwater aquatic life zones,
30. The key factors determining the types and numbers of organisms found in the various layers of both freshwater and marine
systems include
31. If you find a new species of algae floating on the surface of a coastal zone, you would likely consider it a type of
32.Strongly swimming consumers would be part of
33.Oysters, clams, and lobsters would be part of
34.The ocean zone that makes up less than 10% of the world's ocean area, yet contains 90% of all the marine species, is the
35. Found along some 70% of gently sloping sandy and silty coastlines in tropical and subtropical regions, and consisting of some 69
species of trees, are the
36. Organisms in this area must be able to avoid being swept away, crushed by waves, or being left high and dry at low tides, and must
survive daily or seasonal salinity and temperature changes.
37. Most photosynthesis in the open ocean occurs in the
38. The dimly lit zone in which zooplankton and smaller fishes predominate is the
39. The zone in which you would expect to find deposit feeders along with oysters, clams, and sponges is the
40. The deepest part of the ocean is the
41. In certain open sea areas winds, ocean currents, and other factors cause water to come up from the depths to the surface bringing
nutrient from the ocean bottom. This process is called a(n)
42. Coral reefs are being damaged or destroyed by (pg. 172)
43.Name the four zones of a lake
44. The open, sunlit surface area away from the shore is which zone?
45. In lakes, the nutrient-rich water near the shore is part of the
46. Fish adapted to cool, dark waters in lakes are found in the zone called
47. Deep lakes with steep banks that have a small supply of plant nutrients are
48. In lakes, large numbers of decomposers are found in the
49. A type of inland wetland that is dominated by grasses and reeds, with few trees, is
50. Wide, slow-moving rivers containing lots of particulate matter (silt) would be typical of what aquatic life zone?
51. The key factors determining the types and numbers of organisms found in the various layers of both freshwater and marine
systems include
52. Know the points in your notes about mountains.
53. ecological and economic services provided by inland wetlands;
54. major human activities that disrupt and degrade freshwater systems;