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42 Cards in this Set
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Climate |
the average year after year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region |
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Weather |
the day to day conditions of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place |
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Greenhouse Efftect |
the natural situation in which heat is retained by this layer of greenhouse gases, necessary to live. |
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The zone in between the polar and tropical zones, hot to cold temps |
Temperarte zone |
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Near the equator, direct sun ray, mostly warm all year round |
Tropical zone |
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cold areas, sun rays very low angle, |
Polar zone |
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Biotic |
living cast of characters with which an organism might interact |
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Abiotic |
physical or nonliving factors that shape ecosystems |
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Niche |
the full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in chic the organism uses those conditions |
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Habitat |
both biotic and abiotic factors |
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Resource |
any necessity of life |
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Competitive exclusion principle |
no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time |
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Predation |
an interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism |
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Symbiosis |
any relationship in which two species live closely together |
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Mutualism |
both benefit from the relationship |
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Commensalism |
on member benefits and the other is neither helped or harmed |
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Parasitism |
One organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it |
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Ecosystem |
changes constantly, older inhabitants gradually die our and new organisms move in, causing further changes in the community |
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Primary succession |
occurs where no soil exists, also occurs on bare rocks and when glaciers melt |
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Pioneer species |
the first species to populate the area |
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Secondary succession |
when a disturbance of some kind changes an existing community without removing the soil Examples: when land if plowed for farming is abandoned, wild fires |
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Biome |
a complex terrestrial communities that covers a large area and is characterized by certain solid and climate conditions and particular assemblages of plants and animals |
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Microclimate |
the climate in a small area the differs from the climate around it |
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Rains a lot and hot all year around, Hawaii |
Tropical Rain Forest |
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Dry, temperature changes with in 24 hours, low rain |
Desert |
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hot and cold, occasional fires |
Grasslands |
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premafrost, cold, low rain, strong winds |
Tundra |
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2 types of Fresh water ecosystems |
flowing and standing ecosystems |
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Flowing water ecosystems |
rivers, stream, creeks, and brooks, flow over the land plenty of dissolved oxygen
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Standing water ecosystems |
lakes and ponds
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Plankton |
tiny free flowing or weakly swimming organisms that live both freshwater and saltwater environments -single celled algae a.ka. Phytoplankton -Zooplankton |
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Wetland |
an ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for at least part of the year - may be standing or flowing water -fresh, salty or both - 3 types marshes, swamps , bog |
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Estuaries |
wetland the formed where rivers meet the sea |
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Detritus |
made up of tiny pieces of organic material that provides food for organisms a the base of the estuary's food web |
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Salt marshes |
temperate zone estuaries dominated by salt-tolerant grasses above the low-tide line and by seagrasses |
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Mangrove swamps |
costal wetlands that are widespread across the tropical regions |
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Photic zone |
upper layer algae and others producers grow 200 meters |
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Aphotic zone |
blow photic zone permanently dark |
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Costal ocean |
extends form the low-tide mark to the outer ergo go the continental shelf, shallow border |
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Kelp forest |
dominant organism; a giant brown alga that can grow extraordinary rates |
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Coral reefs |
coral animals, skeleton makes primary structure |
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Benthos |
attached to the bottom of the sea, star fish, anemones, and marine worms |
