Environmental Science

Aquatic ecosystem in which fresh water from rivers mixes with water from the ocean forming a nutrient trap.

• Coral Reef

• Estuary

• Littoral Zone

• Crossing Zone

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The shallow water area near the shores of lakes and ponds where sunlight reaches the bottom.

• Coral Reef

• Benthic Zone

• Littoral Zone

• Estuary

Area of land covered by water that is drained by a river.

• Wetland

• Ocean

• Littoral Zone

• Estuary

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Regions that have distinctive climates and organisms and that contain many separate but similar ecosystems.

• Temperate Forest

• Desert

• Biome

• Chaperal

Forest in an area of extreme variation in which trees drop their leaves each fall.

• Taiga

• Chapperal

• Temperate forest

• Biome

Biome without trees, where grasses and tough shrubs grow in the frozen soil; extends from the Arctic Circle to the North Pole.

• Temperate Forest

• Desert

• Tundra

• Taiga

What do we call characteristics of the environment that can limit population growth?

• Limiting factors

• Biotic factors

• Immigration

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What are some factors that can decrease a population's size?

• Immigration and births

• Emigration and deaths

• Clumped populations

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What are some factors that can increase a population's size?

• Immigration and births

• Emigration and deaths

• Clumped populations

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What is an example of a limiting factor that is caused by the environment?

• Floods

• An organism's gestation time

• The color of an organism

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