19 Terms
Contributors in Ecology
Ecology
pyramid of biomass
Biology; Ecology
A diagram showing the biomass supported at each trophic level of a food web. Primary producers are at the bottom and predators are at the top.
tropophyte
Biology; Ecology
A plant that adapts its requirements to climate extremes, like a deciduous tree dropping its leaves in winter and growing them back in spring.
abyssal plain
Biology; Ecology
The surface of the oceanic crust 5,000 to 7,000 meters below the ocean surface. Ocean basins take up 30% of the Earth's surface.
orogenesis
Biology; Ecology
Tectonic mountain-building. They rise as continental plates smash together (case in point: the Pacific coast and its long range of mountains).
