ENV100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Polar Vortex, Invertebrate, Regolith
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Agriculture the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products. Decomposer: an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. Biome: a community of plants + animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in, biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate. In antarctica (south pole) = reappears every austral spring (1)depletion hole over antarctica; more and more depletion in that area. (2)global amount of ozone has been decreasing as well. Surface zone: warmed by sunlight + stirred by wind, water density. Transitional zone: thermocline = temperature decline surface water heated by solar energy, halocline = slininity increase = saltier water is denser & sinks, pycnocline = density increase . Deep zone: dense + cold + sluggish water, unaffected by wind or sunlight.
