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Week 7 Assignment: Exploring Ecosystems: 20 Points - 3 Questions

This document provides a 3-question assignment on ecosystems from the week's course readings. Students are asked to fill in a table characterizing terrestrial biomes based on temperature, precipitation, examples, and features. They must also describe the zones and typical organisms found in ponds/lakes and streams/rivers. Finally, students should explain what makes each coastal and wetland ecosystem unique. The assignment aims to consolidate information from chapters 23-25 on global ecosystems.

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Week 7 Assignment: Exploring Ecosystems: 20 Points - 3 Questions

This document provides a 3-question assignment on ecosystems from the week's course readings. Students are asked to fill in a table characterizing terrestrial biomes based on temperature, precipitation, examples, and features. They must also describe the zones and typical organisms found in ponds/lakes and streams/rivers. Finally, students should explain what makes each coastal and wetland ecosystem unique. The assignment aims to consolidate information from chapters 23-25 on global ecosystems.

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Principles of Ecology (BIOL 330)

Week 7 Assignment: Exploring Ecosystems


20 points – 3 questions

Name:

Instructions
Please fill in the answers with red font. Use your notes and chapter materials to answer the following
questions. Save this document as a Word (.doc) or PDF file (.pdf) and upload to Canvas by the due date.

This week’s chapters provide an abundance of information about the global ecosystems, or biomes. To
make things a bit more manageable for you to study, this homework is simply a consolidation of the
week’s information. This homework will become very helpful to you when answering this week’s quiz
and the final exam.

1. Chapter 23: Fill in the following table to help you sort out the characteristics of terrestrial
biomes. Use your textbook and the Chapter 23’s “Study Area” online video (“Activity: Terrestrial
Biomes”) to help you answer this question. For mean annual temperatures and precipitation,
use Figure 23.2 on page 511 for help. I filled in the first biome to help you get started.
(10 points)

Biome Mean Annual Mean Annual Example Characteristic Features


Temperature Precipitation locations
(°C) (cm)
Desert -5 to 30°C < 50 cm Western USA, Shrub plants (cool deserts) to
Middle East, succulents (hot deserts). Plants and
Sahara, animals adapted to scarce water.
Western Animals include grazing herbivores,
Australia beetles, ants, locusts, lizards,
mammals.
Tropical Rain Forest
Tropical Savanna
Temperate Grassland
Temperate Shrubland
Temperate Forest
Conifer Forest
Arctic Tundra

2. Chapter 24: For the following aquatic ecosystems, describe what is found within their zones:
(6 points)

Ecosystem Zone Description of Zone Organisms Found within Zone


Ponds and Lakes Littoral zone
Limnetic zone
Profundal zone
Principles of Ecology (BIOL 330)

Benthic zone
Streams and Rivers Headwaters
(orders 1st – 3rd)
Medium-sized rivers
(4th – 6th)
Large rivers (7th – 10th)
Oceans Epipelagic zone
Mesopelagic zone
Bathypelagic zone
Abyssopelagic zone
Hadalpelagic zone

3. Chapter 25: This chapter reviews a number of unique coastal and wetland ecosystems. What
makes each unique from one another? (4 points)

Coastal or Wetland Defining Features


Ecosystem
Salt marsh
Mangrove forest
Swamp
Peatland
Bog
Moor

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