4-1 Climate
4-2 Community
4-3 Succession
4-4 Biomes
4-5 Aquatic Ecosystems
100
Process in which certain gases (Carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor) trap sunlight energy in Earth's atmosphere.
What is Greenhouse Effect?
100
An area where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
100
Succession that begins in an area that has no existing community.
What is primary succession?
100
A dense covering formed by the leafy tops of tall rain forest trees.
What is a canopy?
100
A place where water covers the soil part of the year.
What is a wetland?
200
The average year to year conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
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 a niche?
200
In this succession existing communities are not always destroyed by disturbances.
What is secondary succession?
200
Large amounts of humus are found here.
What is temperate rain forest?
200
A group of organisms that is often at the base of the food web in open-water aquatic ecosystems.
What is plankton?
300
Environmental conditions within a small area that differ significantly from the climate of the surrounding area.
What is micro-climate?
300
Any necessity of life, like; water, nutrients, light, food, space.
What is a resource?
300
Series of more or less changes in a community over time.
What is ecological succession?
300
This biome is also called Taiga?
What is Boreal Forest?
300
Wetland formed here, where the river and the sea meet.
What is estuary?
400
Climate is the average temp. over a year and weather is the rain or snow depending on the climate.
What is the difference between climate and weather?
400
An interaction in which one animal captures and feeds on another animal.
What is a predation?
400
A specific and stable community is this.
What is Climax community?
400
This is a layer of permanently frozen subsoil found in the tundra.
What is permafrost?
400
Only 3 % of the Earth's water is this.
What is freshwater ecosystem?
500
Earth's wind and ocean currents interact to help produce this.
What is climate patterns?
500
An interaction in which one animal feeds on a producer.
What is a herbivore?
500
First species to populate an area.
What is pioneer species?
500
This is a dry and hot biome.
What is desert?
500
This substance needs certain things including oxygen, nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus.
What is aquatic organisms?
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