Climate Zones
Climate zone where summers can be very hot and winters can be very cold
What is temperate?
Earth orbits this in our solar system
What is the sun?
General place where an organism lives
What is habitat?
An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism
What is predation?
Day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere, including temperature, precipitation, and other factors
What is weather?
Climate zone near the equator and warm/hot year round
What is tropical?
Phenomenon where visible light enters the atmosphere and is trapped as heat
What is greenhouse effect?
Species ability to survive and reproduce under a range of environmental circumstances
What is tolerance?
An interaction in which one animal feeds on producers
What is herbivory?
Any necessity of life, such as water, nutrients, light, food, or space
What is resource?
Climate zone where winters are bitterly cold and summers barely get warm
What is polar?
The 3 greenhouse gasses (3 answers needed)
What are methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapor?
The range of physical and biological conditions in which a species lives and the way the species obtains what it needs to survive and reproduce
What is niche?
Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
There is a difference of heat received at the poles compared to the this place
What is equator?
Delaware is in this climate zone
What is temperate?
The tilt of the Earth’s axis causes the distribution of solar energy to change over the course of the year, resulting in this
What are seasons?
This is a single species that is not usually abundant in a community yet exerts strong control on the structure of the community
What is keystone species?
Symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship
What is mutualism?
Average year-to-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area over a long period of time
What is climate?
Earth’s climate zones are produced by an unequal distribution of this energy across the Earth’s surface
What is solar energy?
If there is a decrease in greenhouse gas concentrations, more heat escapes the atmosphere, and Earth does this
What is cools, gets colder, etc.
When an environmental condition, such as temperature, extends beyond an organism’s optimal range, the organism experiences stress. This is because it must use more energy to maintain this characteristic of life
What is homeostasis?
This ecological rule states that no two species can occupy the exact same niche in exactly the same habitat at the exact same time
What is competitive exclusion principle?
Symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it
What is parasitism?