Ecology help.please?

The Con asked:


I don’t want you guys to think I want you do to my hw so I actually tried to answer the questions.

1) Describe the major abiotic factors that produce Earth’s main climate zone?
-I honestly have no idea.

2) What is the difference between and organisms habitat and its niche?
-A habitat is where an organism lives while a niche is how it interacts with its environment.

3) What type of succession occurs after lava from a volcanic eruption covers an area?
-Secondary.

4) Why are plants generally few and far between in a desert?
-No idea.

5) What are plankton? Name two types of plankton.
-Plankton are organisms that can’t swim against the tide (?)
Two types: Zooplankton, Phytoplankton

Greg

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One Response to “Ecology help.please?”

  1. dm says:

    Caroline

    I might be able to help a bit:

    For the first question: abiotic factors that make up a climate zone would be temperature, elevation (affecting atmospheric oxygen levels), humidity, pH, etc.

    Plants in a desert are generally few and far between because there is a limiting resource of moisture in the desert. Therefore, any area already occupied by a plant is most likely ‘gutted’ for h2o resources by that plant, disabling any other seed from taking in the area.

    hope this helps

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