AP Environmental Science / Unit 2: The Living World: Biodiversity
2.5 Natural Disruptions to Ecosystems
Notes
Natural events like fires, floods, hurricanes, droughts and volcanic eruptions can be periodic, episodic or random. They can shift populations and cause migration.
- Ice cores and tree rings record past climates.
Practice
Which can record past climate?
Trapped air bubbles.
Some pine cones only open after a fire. Fire is:
Fire-adapted species.
Sea level changes over thousands of years are driven by:
Ice melts and forms.
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