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What is Pioneer species/ lichens
Starts with the coming forth of living things (And give an ex.)
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What is rainforest.
Is the opposite of tundra.
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What is freshwater
Temperature, light, salt, and dissolved oxygen are important factors of this type of ecosystem.
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What is the town would flood and might have to evacuate.
Wetlands trap and slowly release rain/snow (groundwater). Describe what might happen to a town located on a floodplain if a nearby wetland is destroyed.
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What is secondary succession
A fire burns Yellowstone National Park and plants start to grow.
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What are temperate forest life.
Dominated by by climax communities of deciduous trees, who loose their leaves every Autumn.
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What is the portion of the shoreline that is covered with water at high tide and exposed to the air at low tide.
Intertidal Zone
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What are desert and tundra
What two biomes are the driest?
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What is Community of plants that are relatively stable and undisturbed
Definition of Climax Communities
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What is false
Tropical rain forest contain abundant and diverse organisms because of the latitude. True or False
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What is true
Estuaries are sounds. True or False
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What is because Arizona is a desert climate and taigas are dry.
If you climb a mountain in Arizona, you might reach an area where trees resemble the taiga trees in Canada. Why would a taiga forest exist in Arizona?
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What is yes
Would farming(agriculture) be considered secondary succession?
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What is farmers cut down trees to make more farmland ect.
Humans have a large affect on rain forests. Give one example of this fact.
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What is lighted zone/75
__________ is 200 m from the surface of the water that covers about ____ percent of the earth's surface.
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What is because undisturbed, relatively stable, individual organisms grow in an area but the species remain the same.
Climax communities have less diversity than communities in mid-succession. Why?
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What is taiga
The world's largest biome.
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What is nursery areas for many species of ocean fish.
Estuaries serve as
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