What is the difference between weather and climate?
What three factors affect the circulation of air in the lower atmosphere?
The ocean and atmosphere are strongly linked in two ways. What are they?
Explain the natural greenhouse effect. Be sure to give examples of greenhouse gases.
Explain how mountains can create local or regional climatic conditions different from the general climate in the area.
Fill in the blanks: Climate and vegetation vary according to ___________ and ____________.
Identify the 3 different types of deserts and give examples of each.
Why are desert ecosystems fragile?
Why do grasslands primarily occur in the interiors of continents?
Why are temperate grasslands often converted to farmland?
What is permafrost?
Why is the tundra a fragile biome?
Tropical rainforests cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface, but contain at least _______% of the known terrestrial plant and animal species.
Explain how the tropical rainforest can have such high biodiversity, but such nutrient poor soil.
On a global basis, what type of terrestrial biome has been degraded the most by human activities?
Why do coniferous forests have nutrient poor soil?
Describe some of the important ecological roles of mountains.
What percentage of the world’s major terrestrial ecosystems are being degraded or used unsustainably as the human ecological footprint gets bigger?
Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Deserts.
Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Grasslands.
Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Forests.
Look at Figure 7-17. List two major human impacts on Mountains.