The day to day conditions that change in a given area.
What is weather
100
This type of ecological succession occurs after an event such as a volcanic eruption where there are no remnants of the original community to be found.
What is primary succession
100
A species in a community that is not abundant but has a strong effect on the community if removed from the ecosystem.
What is a keystone species
100
The zone of an aquatic ecosystem that is characterized by no light.
What is the aphotic zone.
100
A complex of terresterial communities that occupy a large area and are characterized by certain soil and climate conditions and a particular assemblage of plants and animals.
What is a biome
200
the uneven heating of the Earth's surface drives this factor that affects the climate of a region.
What is heat transfer (winds and currents)
200
The first species to inhabit an area and start the beginning steps of primary succession.
What is a pioneer species
200
The type of interaction in which consumers feed on producers.
What is herbivory
200
When dividing an ocean into zones by distance, this zone is submerged in water at high tide but exposed to the air and sunlight during low tide.
What is the intertidal zone
200
This biome is characterized by very little rainfall and hot temperatures during the day with cold temperatures at night.
What is the desert
300
Is determined by the balance between the amount of heat released from the atmopshere and the amount of heat absorbed or trapped by the atmosphere.
What is the Earth's average temperature
300
The two components that make up a lichen and enable it to survive in harsh environments.
What is an algae and fungi components
300
The three type of symbiotic relationships that exists in a community.
What is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
300
The term that refers to the ability of organisms to create their own light.
What is bioluminescence
300
This biome is characterized by long cold winters, a permafrost, and has plants that are low to the ground in order to avoid the wind conditions.
What is the tundra.
400
the three main gases that are known as the greenhouse gases
What is carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor.
400
A community that has returned to its normal state after a disturbance.
What is a climax community
400
This principle was shown by an experiment that involved two species of single cell organisms and when placed in the same culture one survived and one was completely wiped out.
What is the competitive exclusion principle
400
A special type of wetland that is formed where the river meets the sea and examples include a salt marsh and mangrove swamp.
What is an estuary
400
This is found in the tropical rainforest and refers to the dense leaf covering that is formed by the tallest trees in the area.
What is the canopy
500
An example in the United States where the side of the mountain range facing the ocean has a rainy climate and the side facing away from the ocean has a hot and dry climate
What is the Sierra Nevada mountains and Death Valley
500
The two things that constantly change an ecosystem.
What is natural distrubances and human caused disturbances.
500
The type of relationship when one organisms benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed such as the mites that live in the eyebrows of humans.
What is commensalism.
500
Wetlands are highly productive and ecologically significant. The two ways wetlands are important to an ecosystem.
What is flood control and water purification.
500
This biome is also reffered to as the taiga and contains dark green evergreeens that help absorb as much heat as possible.