Chapter Four Study Guide

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AP Environmental Science Chapter Four Study Guide

Vocabulary

Climate

Troposphere

Stratosphere

Albedo

Saturation point

Adiabatic cooling

Adiabatic heating

Temperate seasonal forests

Woodland/Shrub land

Temperate grassland / cold desert

Tropical rainforests

Tropical seasonal forests

Savannas

Subtropical deserts

Latent heat release

Hadley cells

Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)

Polar cells

Coriolis effect

Gyres

Upwelling

El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Rain shadow

Biomes

Tundra

Permafrost

Boreal forests

Temperate forests

Littoral zone

Limnetic zone

Phytoplankton

Profundal zone

Benthic zone

Freshwater wetlands

Salt marshes

Mangrove swamps

Intertidal zone

Coral reefs

Coral bleaching

Photic zone

Aphotic zone

Chemosynthesis

Objectives – Be able to:

1.

Explain the forces that drive global circulation patterns and how these patterns determine weather and climate.

2.

Describe the major terrestrial biomes.

3.

Describe the major aquatic biomes.

Checkpoint Questions

1.

What is the difference between weather and climate?

2.

What effect does Earth’s rotation have on atmospheric circulation and ocean currents?

3.

In what ways are atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns similar? How are they different?

4.

What characteristics are used to identify terrestrial biomes?

5.

What are some of the ways that humans use different terrestrial biomes?

6.

What characteristics of a terrestrial biome determine its productivity?

7.

How are aquatic biomes categorized? Why are they categorized differently than terrestrial biomes?

8.

What are the different zones of lakes and the open ocean, and what defines them?

9.

How does water depth or flow influence the organisms that live in an aquatic biome?

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