ANSWER BANK on altitude, latitude and humidity provinces

{BPMP}, Biomes Victor Shelford; units produce

Terrestrial Biome when regional climate interacts with plan
1. Taiga formation;
2. Permanently frozen soil 35. UNIFORM
3. Removal of soil along drainage tundra Aquatic Biome
4. Finnish for treeless plain
5. Tundra 1. Watershed
6. Beavers 2. Catchment/ catch basins
7. Southward expansion of tundra 3. Lake, ponds, and wetlands
8. Gymnosperms 4. Depth, flow, temperature, water chemistry
9. Eurasia and north America 5. Depth of water
10. Respiration 6. Water chemistry
11. Transition between tundra and taiga 7. Latitude
12. boreal forest/ northern coniferous forest 8. Salinity
13. deciduous forest soil of the forest 9. Freshwater, marine, brackish water (estuaries)
14. highly modified forest 10. < 1%
15. dutch elm disease bark beetle; kills the elm tree 11. Limnology
by blocking the vascular system (nutrient 12. Temperature, current, dissolved oxygen, dissolved
absorption); chestnut blight yellowing and mineral, turbidity.
dying of branches from China. 13. Periphyton
16. NA, Russia/Eurasia, South Africa, SA, Hungary 14. Nekton (fishes, insects, crustaceans)
17. Grazer 15. Benthos
18. Herbaceous layer Layers in herbaceous 16. Lentic ecosystem
vegetation, ground layer receives high light, 17. Lotic ecosystem
prevents erosion and infertility and has mulch; 18. Ponds smaller, seasons; Lakes can fill in or dry
below ground layer underground stems and up., exists in hundred., exists in hundreds or
rhizomes. thousands of years
19. Is the layer of material that accumulate in 19. Littoral zone
unmoved, unburned, and ungrazed grassland. 20. Littoral zone
20. Making the fertile land drought; soil becomes dry 21. Sedges, spike rushes
and loses nutrients; frequent erosion 22. Plants w/ narrow tubular or linear leaves
21. Savannah (bulrushes, reeds, cattails, Pontederia spp.,
22. California, Mexico, Southern coast of Australia, Sagitaria spp.)
Mediterranean Sea 23. Floating plants (Pond weed, pond lily)
23. Chamiso (Adenostoma), Manzanita 24. Pelagic/Limnetic zone
(Arctostaphylon) 25. Profundal zone
24. Kidneys 26. Compensation level
25. Opportunistic 27. Benthic zone
26. Hot hot @ day, cool @ night, arabian desert, 28. Aufwuschs/periphyton
Australian desert, sahara, southwest, Kalahari; 29. Thermocline
cold desert Antarctica, Taklimakan, gobi, great 30. Epilimnion
basin, Atacama desert 31. Hypolimnion
27. TRP 32. Photic zone
28. Poor soil, closed nutrient cycling (mycorrhizae), 33. Aphotic zone
minimal penetration of light at low levels 34. Cultural enrichment
29. Thin, vertical stratification (*highest stratification 35. Oligotrophic lakes low nutrients and
tropical ecosystem) productivity; low surface area to volume ratio
30. TRP; taiga deep; high O2 concentration; low bacterial
31. Transpiration biomass; high species diversity
32. Water Eutrophic lakes high nutrients and productivity;
33. Light high surface to volume ratio (shallow); high
34. Plant formations botanists; unit of vegetation, photosynthesis and turbidity; low O2
Biogeographical regions/realms Alfred Wallace; concentration; death on bottom part; increased
Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, decomposition (anaerobic bacteria)
Ethiopian, Australian, Holdridge life zone based 36. Hypertrophic
37. Dystrophic 89. Estuary
38. Hypertrophic 90. Coral reef
39. Spring/seepage, lakes, ponds, glaciers 91. Calcium carbonate
40. Erosion 92. Coral reef
41. Any direction 93. Zooxanthellae
42. Downstream 94. Mutualistic relationship algae removes wastes in
43. Gully corals by secreting O2 while corals serve as habitat
44. Mountainous area for algae
45. Downstream 95. Nitrogen
46. Beds or banks 96. Mangrove ecosystem
47. Flood 97. Nutrient traps
48. Floodplain deposits 98. Fish pondification; charcoal industry
49. Delta 99. Seagrass
50. Floodplain 100. Mudflats
51. Velocity of a current 101. Seagrass belts
52. Riffles and pool 102. Coral reefs
53. Pool, Riffle, Riffle, Pool, Pool
54. False *when the pool is gone low bicarbonate and
low Co2
55. Streamlined form
56. Weak
57. Blackfly larvae
58. Caddisfly larvae
59. Sticky undersurface; strong holdfasts; compressed
bodies;
60. Heterotrophic
61. Coarse Particulate OM, Fresh Particulate OM,
Dissolved OM
62. Wetland
63. Marshes
64. Swamps
65. Freshwater swamp
66. Fen
67. Peat
68. Bogs
69. Channelization
70. Damming and stream modifications
71. Flood-pulse
72. Schistosomiasis
73. Mangrove swamps
74. Lacustrine (ponds and lakes)
75. Palustrine
76. Riverine
77. Mangrove swamp
78. 35 ppt
79. Pelagic whole body of water Benthic bottom
surface
80. Neritic province
81. Oceanic province
82. Epipelagic
83. Abyssal
84. Bathypelagic
85. Mesopelagic
86. Estuary
87. Estuary
88. Delta