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Climatographs are useful tools pin describing a biomes climate they typically show patterns in annual?
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precipitation and temperature
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which of the fallowing terms describes the net amount of organic matter that an ecosystem or biome produces?
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gross production
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nearly all nutrients presents in tropical rainforest are contained in the...
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trees vines and other plants
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what s the extended period of deep sleep like inactivity that an animal enters for the winter
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hibernation
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which of the fallowing types of organisms experience seasonal loss of leaves as an adaptation to their climate
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deciduous trees
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which of the fallowing describes the frozen underground soil that in found in the tundra
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permaforest
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life underwater is greatly by light availability which is directly related to
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water depth
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in which of the oceans zones would you expect to find the ecosystem shown below
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coral reef
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which of the fallowing ecosystem is not a type of wetland?
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stream
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the vertical movement of cold nutrient rich water from the ocean depths to its surface is called
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upwelling
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weather decries the average conditions of an area over long periods of times
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f climate
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the mud and muck at the very bottom of any body o water is called the aphotic zone
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f photic zone
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hight in the mountains near a rivers source water tend to be cold and oxygen rish
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ogs are brackish ecosystems that accur where rivers flow into the ocean
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f rivers and streams
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