Chapter 4 Vocab Flashcards

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Climate

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Refers to the average year after year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region

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Weather

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Day today conditioner birds atmosphere at a particular time and place

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Greenhouse effect

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The natural situation in which he is rude retained in earth atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, other gases

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Polar zone

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Cold areas where the sun rays strike earth at a very low angle

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Temperature zones

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Moderate climate zones between the polar zones in the tropics

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Tropical zone

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Warm climate zone that receives direct or nearly direct sunlight you’re around

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Biotic factor biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem him

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biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem him

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Abiotic factor

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Physical, or nonliving factor that shapes and ecosystem

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Habitat

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The area where an organism lives

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Niche

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A full range of physical and biological conditions

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Resource

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A necessity of life

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Competitive exclusion principal

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Ecological rule that no 2 species can occupy the same niche or habitat at the same time

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Predation

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An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another

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Symbiosis

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Relationship in which two species love close by eachother

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Ecological succession

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Gradual change in living communities that follows a Disturbance

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Primary succession

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Successions that occur on the surfaces where nothing exists

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Pioneer species

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First species to populate an area during primary succession

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Secondary succession

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Succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil

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Biome

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Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominate communities

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Tolerance

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Organisms capacity to grow or thrive when subjected to an un favorable environmental factor

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Microclimate

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Climate with a small area that differs significantly from the climate of the surrounding area

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Canopy

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Dense covering formed by leafy tops of tell rain forest trees

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Understory

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Layer in rainforest formed by shorter trees and vines

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Deciduous

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A tree that’s heads it’s leaves during a season each year

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Coniferous
Tree that produces seed baring cones with needles
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Humus
Material formed by decaying leaves and other organic matter
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Taiga
Winters are cold and summers are mild enough to allow ground to thaw
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Permafrost
Layer of permanently frozen subsoil in the tundra
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Plankton
Tiny free floating organism that occur in aquatic environments
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Phytoplankton
Population of algae and other dank organisms found at the surface of the ocean
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Zoo plankton
Tiny animals that form part of plankton
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Wetland
Water covers soil or is present near the surface p
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Estuary
Wetland formed where rivers meet the ocean
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Detritus
Partials of organic material that provide good for organisms
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Salt marsh
Temperate zone estuary dominated by salt tolerant grasses above the low tide line
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Mangrove swamp
Coastline wetland
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Photic zone
Permanently dark layer of the ocean
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Zonation
Prominate horizontal banding of organisms that love in a specific habitat
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Coastline ocean
Manne zone that extends from low tide to coastline
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Kelp forest
Coastline ocean community
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Coral definition
Diverse and produetore environment
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Benthos
Organisms that live attached to it near the ocean floor