We Love the Earth Aquatic Biomes Climate Eat or Get Eaten Vocab
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What is an ecological footprint?
Estimate of the area of land and water required to sustain one person​.
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What is the intertidal zone?
The marine ecosystem between low and high tide lines.
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What is weather?
Specific atmospheric conditions over a short period of time at a specific location​.
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What is parasitism?
A tick living on and benefiting from a human scalp.
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What is a biome?
Large regions characterized by unique climate characteristics & distinctive communities ​
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What are greenhouse gases?
Airborn chemicals that capture and hold heat within Earth's atmosphere
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What is an estuary?
Where the river meets the sea.
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What is climate?
Prevailing long term weather conditions over a large region​
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What is mutualism?
A shrimp gets food from the teeth of an eel while the eel has the benefit of receiving this cleaning.
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What is an adaptation?
An inherited characteristic that enables an organism to survive and reproduce better than individuals without this characteristic​.
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What is thermal expansion?
As heat is absorbed by the ocean, water molecules expand and cause this phenomenon to occur.
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What is the oceanic region?
Water beyond the continental shelf is considered a part of this region.
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What is climate change?
long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
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What is commensalism?
A barnacle that lives on a whale gets habitat area and nutrients from the water as the whale swims while the whale is unaffected.
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What is commensalism?
Interaction in which one population benefits, while the other is unaffected​.
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What is carbon dioxide?
Ocean acidification occurs due to excess amounts of this greenhouse gas being absorbed by the ocean.
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What is aphotic zone?
The zone of the ocean below 200m where light does not reach.
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What is the greenhouse effect?
How heat gets trapped close to Earth's surface.
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What is a consumer? (heterotroph)
Obtains energy from eating other organisms ​
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What is productivity?
Rate of biomass (energy) generation by plants & some bacteria in an ecosystem .
What is sustainable development?
The goal of this is to maintain the productivity of Earth's ecosystems indefinitely through the responsible management and conservation of Earth's resources.
What is chemosynthesis?
A process by which organisms use chemical reactions to produce sugars and energy, typically in the absence of sunlight.
What are fossil fuels?
Since the 1800s human activities have been the main driver of the expedited rate of global climate change, primarily due to burning of these.
What are nutrients?
Chemical substances found in every living thing on Earth​ that get cycled through a system.
What is trophic structure?
Describes the feeding relationships within a community​






Unit 2: Ecology and Climate Double Jeopardy

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