The Biosphere

What is the biosphere?

• Includes all the gases that surround Earth.

• Consists of all Earth's freshwater and salt water, including water vapor and rain.

• Includes all the solid stuff like rocks, the ocean floor, and conitents.

• Everywhere where life exists which includes all living organisms and the environment they live in.

What is the correct order of the levels of organization?

• Species, community, population, ecosystem, and biome.

• Biosphere, species, population, community, ecosystem, and biome.

• Species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere.

• Population, community, species, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere.

An abiotic factor is any nonliving part of the environment, such as wind, heat, water, and soil type.

• True

• False

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What is climate?

• What's going on with atmosphere at any particular time.

• The type of weather that occurs during a particular season.

• An area's pattern of weather over a long period of time.

• How much sunshine an area gets.

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Climate change is only caused by humans.

• True

• False

Climate zones are created by unequal distribution of solar energy across Earth's surface.

• True

• False

Changes from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day.

• Climate

• Weather

• Seasons

• None of the above

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Mountain ranges affect regional climates.

• True

• False

Ocean currents are driven and shaped by

• patterns of warming and cooling

• by winds

• by the locations of continents

• all of the above

Biomes and ecosystems are the exact same.

• True

• False