Climate
Climate
What is the average year to year temperature and precipitation of an area over a long period of time?
Predation
What is the interaction where one animal (predator) captures and feeds on another animal (prey) called?
Ecological Succession
What is a series of gradual changes that occur in a community following a disturbance?
Immigration
What is it when individuals move into a population's range?
Renewable Resource
What is a resource that can be produced or replaced as fast or faster than it is used?
The greenhouse effect
What is the process of certain gases trapping sunlight energy in Earth's atmosphere called?
Symbiosis
Where two species live close to gether?
Primary Succession
What is succession that occurs in an area in which no trace of a previous community is present?
Emigration
What is the movement of individuals out of an area?
Nonrenewable resource
What is a resource that cannot be reduced or replaced as fast as it is used up?
A habitat
What is the general place where an organism lives?
Mutualism
What is it when two animals benefit each other?
Pioneer Species
What is the first species to populate an area during succession?
Carrying Capacity
What is the largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can support?
Deforestation
What is the loss of forests called?
Niche
What is an organism does & how it interacts with the environment?
Parasitism
Where one animal lives inside or on another animal and harms it is called what?
Secondary Succession
What type of succession occurs in an area that was only partially destroyed by disturbances?
Limiting Factor
What is any factor that controls size of a population called?
Ecological footprint
What is the human impact on resource use and waste called?
Resources
What is something that is a necessity of life such as water, nutrients, light, food or space?
Commensalism
What is it called when one organism benefits and the other animal is neither heled or harmed?
Humus
What is material formed from decaying leaves and other organic matter?
Biodiversity
What is the total of all genetically based variation in all organisms in the biosphere?
Ozone Layer
What is the layer in the atmosphere that absorbs UV rays from the sun?