biomes and ecosystems

____ are classified by climate zone and vegetation types.

Examples of abiotic factors:

• Water quality and quantity

• Climate including rainfall and temperature

• Soil and rock properties

• The amount of sunlight

Examples of biotic factors:

• Biological weathering and erosion and decompositon

• Vegetation type

• Level of production and food supply

• Feeding relationships and disease and parasitic relationships.

The majority of marine organisms are found in

• deep ocean waters

• shallow, coastal waters

• hydrothermal vents

• salt marshes

Which biome is also known as the "Temperate Forest"?

• Deciduous Forest

• Tropical Rain Forest

• Tundra Forest

• Taiga Forest

Ecosystem of the southern ocean, once thought to be rather barren due to ice cover and extremely cold temperatures, but now known to support a wide array of marine organisms.

• Arctic

• Deep Sea

• Mangrove

• Antarctic

The biome with the highest species diversity is the

• taiga

• tundra

• tropical rain forest

• savanna

One example of an Aquatic Biome.

• Marine

• Savanna

• Tropical Rainforest

One example of a Land Biome.

• Freshwater

• Coral Reef

• Tundra

All the members of one type of species in a specific area.

• habitat
• community
• population
• ecosystme