Exam 16: Where Do You Live Climate and Biomes

On a warm summer day in August, you decide to go for a walk through a new housing development that was built near your home a few years ago. As you walk by the pond that's in the center of this development, you notice an unpleasant smell. Then, you see that the pond is full of green algae, and there are dead fish floating on the surface. This is a pond that used to be clean and clear, and you used to play in it as a child. What could have most likely caused this change?

What has created at least half of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere?

Which biome includes plants that are adapted to frequent fires?

What type of plants are naturally selected when grazing animals eat the tops of plants?

In New York, when would the warmest days of the year usually occur?

In order to reproduce, to what type of wetland must certain species of salamanders migrate so their aquatic eggs can develop free of predatory fish that are unable to survive the annual drying up of this wetland?

What phrase describes the amount of light received by a given unit area over time?

What organism do coral animals harbor inside their bodies to provide them with nutrition?

Which location might exhibit the greatest variation in temperatures throughout the seasons?

Hypothetically, how could scientists lower Earth's temperature in order to combat global warming?

Why do the deciduous leaves on temperate forest trees turn from green to orange, red, and/or yellow before falling?

-As depicted in this illustration, where does the most rainfall generally occur?