This biome is characterized by very low temperatures, little precipitation, and permafrost.
What is TUNDRA
100
The first species to colonize barren areas.
What is PIONEER SPECIES
100
The day-to-day condition on Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is WEATHER
100
The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions.
What is NICHE
100
Physical, or nonliving, factors that shape ecosystems.
What is ABIOTIC FACTORS
200
Name 2 biomes that have the least precipitation.
What is TUNDRA AND DESERT
200
The final stable stage of a community that has gone through a series of changes.The community is not always uniform and stable because succession does not always follow the same path.
What is CLIMAX COMMUNITIES
200
Refers to the average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region.
What is CLIMATE
200
Community interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism.
What is PREDATION
200
One member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is COMMENSALISM
300
This biome is home to more species than all other land biomes combined
What is TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
300
Carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor, and a few other atmospheric gases trap heat energy and maintain Earth's temperature range.
What is GREENHOUSE EFFECT
300
Earth's three main climate zones are a result of the differences in latitude and ____________.
What is DISTRIBUTION OF SUNLIGHT
300
Community interaction that occurs when organisms of the same or different species attempt to use an ecological resource in the same place at the same time.
What is COMPETITION
300
A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.
What is MUTUALISM
400
Receive more seasonal rainfall than desserts but less than tropical dry forests, wildlife includes: lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, elephants, giraffes, zebras.
What is SAVANNA
400
This global factor produces a wide range of environmental conditions that shape communities.
What is CLIMATE
400
The rising of warm air and the sinking of cool air results in _________________.
What is GLOBAL WIND PATTERNS
400
Any relationship in which two species live closely together is called symbiosis. What are the 3 symbiotic relationships?
What is MUTUALISM, COMMENSALISM, PARASITISM
400
Particular physical environment that contains a characteristics assemblage of plants and animals.
What is BIOME
500
The water in the area, the amount of sunlight, the composition of soil describe the biological or physical/chemical aspect of an organism's niche.
What is PHYSICAL/CHEMICAL
500
This type of ecological succession may occur when lava flows from a volcano and hardens to rock, a glacier retreats and leaves behind bare rock, or a landscape uncovers an area of bare rock.
What is PRIMARY SUCCESSION
500
As a result of differences in latitude and thus the angle of heating, Earth has 3 different climate zones. What are the three climate zones?
What is POLAR ZONES, TEMPERATE ZONES, TROPICAL ZONES
500
When speaking of organisms that mainly occupy a climax community, we are mainly referring to this organism.
What are PLANTS
500
Ecosystems are constantly changing in response to natural and human disturbances. As an ecosystem changes, older inhabitants gradually die out and new organisms move in, causing further changes in the community. This series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time is__________?