Communities
What is a Community?
What is the different species living and interactingin a specific area.
What is a niche?
This term describes the total of all the resources a species requires for its survival, growth, and reproduction.
What is the term for a living organism interacting with other living organisms in its environment?
What is a biotic interaction.
What is climate?
This refers to the long-term prevailing weather patterns of an area.
What is a biome?
What is a biome is a large geographic area that has Specific climate conditions.
What is Biodiversity?
What is the variety of spices within a community.
What is commensalism?
What is a type of symbiotic relationship, one species benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed, such as mosses growing on tree bark.
This type of interaction benefits one organism while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
What is the equator?
What is temperature decreases moving away from this location due to Earth's curvature.
What animals live in the tundra biome?
What is a keystone species?
What is a type of species that has. a disproportionately large effect on its community.
What is secondary succession?
What is Often occurring after a fire or farming, this is the process of a community changing over time in an area where a community previously existed.
In this interaction, one organism benefits while the other is harmed, often involving one organism consuming another?
What is predation.
what is the tilt of the earth axis?
This causes Earth to have seasons as it orbits the sun.
What role do decomposers play in biomes?
What is Decomposers break down dead plants and animals
What is ecological succession?
What is the process that describes the gradual change in species composition in a community over time.
What is a keystone species?
What is a species that plays a disproportionately large role in maintaining a community’s diversity, these species are often compared to the central stone in an arch.
This symbiotic relationship benefits both organisms involved, such as bees pollinating flowers.
What is mutualism.
What are air circulation patterns (winds)?
These patterns move air and moisture around Earth, creating wet and dry regions.
What adaptations help animials survive in cold biomes like the tundra?
What is Animals may have thick fur
What is primary succession?
What is a specific type of succession occurs in an area where no life previously existed, such as after a volcanic eruption creates new land.
What is commensalism?
What is a type of symbiotic relationship benefits one species while the other is neither helped nor harmed, like barnacles on a whale.
If a keystone predator is removed from an ecosystem, this phenomenon may occur, causing dramatic changes in population sizes and ecosystem structure?
What is a trophic cascade.
What are mountains (mountain ranges)?
These can block moist air, creating a wet side and a dry "rain shadow side.
How might climate change alter the boundaries of major biomes over time?
What is Warmer temperatures can shift biomes to new areas