What is the difference between weather and climate?
Question 2
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What three factors affect the circulation of air in the lower atmosphere?
Question 3
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The ocean and atmosphere are strongly linked in two ways. What are they?
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Explain the natural greenhouse effect. Be sure to give examples of greenhouse gases.
Question 5
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Explain how mountains can create local or regional climatic conditions different from the general climate in the area.
7-2 How Does Climate Affect the Nature and Location of Biomes?
**You will be filling out a table with detailed characteristics of specific biomes. The questions below are meant to help you identify some of the big picture concepts.**
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Fill in the blanks: Climate and vegetation vary according to ___________ and ____________.
Question 7
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Identify the 3 different types of deserts and give examples of each.
Question 8
8.
Why are desert ecosystems fragile?
Question 9
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Why do grasslands primarily occur in the interiors of continents?
Question 10
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Why are temperate grasslands often converted to farmland?
Question 11
11.
What is permafrost?
Question 12
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Why is the tundra a fragile biome?
Question 13
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Tropical rainforests cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface, but contain at least _______% of the known terrestrial plant and animal species.
Question 14
14.
Explain how the tropical rainforest can have such high biodiversity, but such nutrient poor soil.
Question 15
15.
On a global basis, what type of terrestrial biome has been degraded the most by human activities?
Question 16
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Why do coniferous forests have nutrient poor soil?
Question 17
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Describe some of the important ecological roles of mountains.
7-3 How Have Human Activities Affected the World’s Terrestrial Ecosystems?
Question 18
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What percentage of the world’s major terrestrial ecosystems are being degraded or used unsustainably as the human ecological footprint gets bigger?
Question 19
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Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Deserts.
Question 20
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Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Grasslands.
Question 21
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Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Forests.
Question 22
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Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Mountains.