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Local Conditions
How would you describe your climate, or the average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation where you live? Does your area receive a great deal of precipitation—rain and snow—or is your area very dry?
Section 4-1
Interest Grabber
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4–1 The Role of Climate
A. What Is Climate?
B. The Greenhouse Effect
C.The Effect of Latitude on Climate
Section 4-1
Section Outline
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What is Climate?
• Weather – day-to-day condition of Earth’s atmosphere
• Climate – average of daily weather over a period of time
•Factors affecting climate:
– Trapping of heat by the atmosphere
– Latitude
– Ocean currents
– Etc.
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Greenhouse Gases
Include:
– CO2
– Methane– Water vapor
• Similar to a car on a hot day, glass allows light energy in, yet heat can not escape.
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Sunlight
Some heat escapesinto space
Greenhousegases trapsome heat
Atmosphere
Earth’s surface
Section 4-1
The Greenhouse Effect
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The Effect of Latitude on Climate
•Earth is tilted on it’s axis, causing varying degrees of light striking the Earth.
3 main zones of climate:
1. polar zones
2. temperate zones (United States)
3. tropical zones
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Sunlight
Some heatescapesinto space
Greenhousegases trapsome heat
Atmosphere
Earth’s surface
Sunlight
Most direct sunlight
Sunlight
Sunlight
Sunlight
90°N North Pole
66.5°N
23.5°N
0°
23.5°S
66.5°S
90°S South Pole
Arctic circle
Tropic of Cancer
Equator
Tropic of Capricorn
Arctic circle
Section 4-1
Figures 4-1 and 4-2 Heating of the Earth’s Surface and Some Factors That Affect Climate
Greenhouse Effect Different Latitudes
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4–2 What Shapes an Ecosystem?
A. Biotic and Abiotic Factors
B. The Niche
C. Community Interactions
1. Competition
2. Predation
3. Symbiosis
D. Ecological Succession
1. Primary Succession
2. Secondary Succession
3. Succession in a Marine Ecosystem
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Section Outline
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Biotic and Abiotic Factors
• Biotic factors – living components that influence the ecosystem.– Predators, prey, plants for herbivores
• Abiotic factors – non-living components that influence the ecosystem
– Water, O2, CO2, temp., precip.
• Combined both determine stability of the ecosystem.
• Examples of how it can be thrown out of whack?
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Biotic Factors
ECOSYSTEM
Abiotic Factors
Section 4-2
Abiotic and Biotic Factors
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Biotic Factors
ECOSYSTEM
Abiotic Factors
Section 4-2
Abiotic and Biotic Factors
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The Niche
• Where an organism fits into its environment
– Place on food chain
– What it eats
– How it reproduces
– Climate it prefers
• If niche is not suited for environment….then organism is not suited for the environment.
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Bay-Breasted WarblerFeeds in the middlepart of the tree
Yellow-Rumped WarblerFeeds in the lower part of the tree andat the bases of the middle branches
Cape May WarblerFeeds at the tips of branchesnear the top of the tree
Spruce tree
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Figure 4-5 Three Species of Warblers and Their Niches
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• No two species can share the same niche in the same habitat!!!
•Competition!
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Community Interactions
1. Competition
2. Predation
3. Symbiosis• Mutualism• Commensalism
4. Parasitism
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Ecological Succession
• Ecosystems are constantly changing in response to human or non-human interactions.
• Could be a rapid change or very gradual (thousands of years).
• Types:– Primary– Secondary
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Primary Succession
•Occurs where no soil exists – must start with plants….Why?
– Bare rocks– Volcanic areas
• Occurs often due to climatic changes of plate tectonics• After original pioneer species establish area, new organisms begin to inhabit area.
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Primary succession
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Secondary Succession
• When a drastic climatic event disturbs a particular area and organisms re-establish the ecosystem over time.
– Prairie fires
• Ecosystems typically bounce back from natural disturbances, but struggle to return when human disturbances occur (non-natural).
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Secondary succession
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4–3 Biomes
A.Biomes and Climate
B.The Major Biomes
C.Other Land Areas
1.Mountain Ranges
2.Polar Ice Caps
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Section Outline
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What is a biome?
•Many ecosystems combined sharing the same climate and soil conditions.
•Organisms are adapted structurally and behaviorally to that particular biome
•Ex: Saguaro and anthurium
•Organsims in biomes demonstrate tolerance.
– What is that?
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Section 4-3
Compare/Contrast Table
Ten Major Biomes
Biome Precipitation Temperature Soil Diversity Trees Grasses
Tropical Rain Forest high hot poor high dense sparse
Tropical Dry Forest variable mild rich moderate medium medium
Tropical Savanna variable mild clay moderate sparse dense
Desert low variable poor moderate sparse sparse
Temperate Grassland moderate summer hot rich moderate absent dense
Temperate woodland and Shrubland
summer low, winter moderate
summer hot poor low medium medium
Temperate Forest moderate summer moderate, winter cold
rich high dense sparse
Northwestern Coniferous Forest
high summer mild, winter cold
rocky, acidic low dense sparse
Boreal Forest moderate summer mild, winter cool
poor, acidic moderate dense sparse
Tundra low summer mild, winter cold
poor low absent medium
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Tropical rain forest
Tropical dry forest
Tropical savanna Temperate woodlandand shrubland
Desert
Temperate grassland
Boreal forest(Taiga)
Northwesternconiferous forest
Temperate forest
Mountains andice caps
Tundra
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Figure 4-11 The World’s Major Land Biomes
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Generally speaking……•What adaptations do plants and animals have for the biomes they live in?
•Example: What are plants like in temperate climate?....
Video 1
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Video 1
Earth’s Many Biomes, Part 1
Video 2
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Video 2
Earth’s Many Biomes, Part 2
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Other land areas
•Mountain ranges– Varies elevation– How does that influence climate?
•Polar ice caps– Cool surrounding water (thus air also).– What does that mean?
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4–4 Aquatic Ecosystems
A. Freshwater Ecosystems
1. Flowing-Water Ecosystems
2. Standing-Water Ecosystems
3. Freshwater Wetlands
B. Estuaries
C. Marine Ecosystems
1. Intertidal Zone
2. Coastal Ocean
3. Coral Reefs
4. Open Ocean
5. Benthic Zone
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Section Outline
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•75% of the Earth covered in water– We have A LOT of aquatic ecosystems!
•Determined mostly by water’s:– Depth– Flow– Temperature
– Chemistry (fresh/marine, pH, O2.)
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Freshwater ecosystems – 3%
1. Flowing water– Rivers, creeks, etc.
2. Standing water– Lakes, ponds, etc.
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• Standing water ecosystems– Basis for the food chain is plankton
1. phytoplankton – plant-like (photo.)
-single celled algae
2. zooplankton – “critter-like”
- feed on phytoplankton
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Spoonbill
Duck
DragonflyPhytoplankton
FrogWater lilies
Mosquitolarvae
SnailDivingbeetle
Trout
Pickerel
Duckweed
Snail Benthiccrustaceans
Hydra
Frogs lay eggs in the shallowwater near shore.The eggs hatch in the water as tadpolesand move to the land as adults.
The shore is lined with grasses that provide shelter and nestingplaces for birds and otherorganisms.
The roots of water liliescling to the pond bottom,while their leaves, on longflexible stems, float on thesurface.
The bottom of the pond isinhabited by decomposers andother organisms that feed onparticles drifting down from thesurface.
Fish share the pondwith turtles and other animals. Many of them feed on insectsat the water’s edge.
Plankton and the organisms thatfeed on them live near the surfacewhere there is enough sunlight forphotosynthesis. Microscopic algaeare among the most importantproducers.
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Freshwater Pond Ecosystem
Crayfish
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Freshwater wetlands
• Water covers existing soil either partly or completely for an extended period of time.
•Very productive ecosystems containing both aquatic and terrestrial organisms.
•Swamps, bogs, marshes
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Illinois Swamps – Cache River
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Estuaries
•Where freshwater rivers reach the sea•Have a mixture of freshwater/marine life
– Crabs, clams, fish•Use them mostly to reproduce then when mature, head out to sea.
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Salt Marshes • Temperate-zone
estuaries• Salt tolerant grasses• Chesapeake Bay in
Maryland
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Mangrove Swamps • Tropical regions• Salt tolerant trees• Florida Everglades
National Park
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Marine ecosystems
• Photic zones– Shallow areas of the ecosystem where sunlight
can penetrate– rate of photosynthesis– Down to about 200 meters
•Aphotic zones– Deep areas, no light penetrates– rate of photo.– Chemosynthetic “critters”
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landCoastalocean
Openocean
Oceantrench
Aphotic zone
Photic zone
Continentalshelf
Continental slope andcontinental rise
Abyssalplain
200m
1000m
4000m
6000m
10,000m
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Figure 4-17 Zones of a Marine Ecosystem
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•Intertidal zone– Subjected to seawater, air, sunlight, battered by
waves all in the period of one day.– Exposed to daily extreme environ. Changes– Zonation: horizontal banding
-Coastal ocean
- Low tide make to outer edge of continental shelf– Almost entirely ‘photic’– Rich in plankton, kelp and other algae dominant – Kelp forests
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•Coral reefs– Formed from hard calcium deposits of dead coral
skeletons– Shallow water for algae that live symbiotically with
them.– Provide shelter for fish, etc.
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•Open ocean– “oceanic zone”– Largest marine zone by
area (90%)– Low # of producers
= ???• But, why such a large
rate of photo?•Benthic zone
– Ocean floor– Benthos– Chemosynthetic critters
or feed on dead stuff/detritus (decomposers)
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