Earth's Seasons
Transfer of heat through direct contact
What is conduction?
A symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit
I.e. Bee and flower
What is mutualism?
the periodic, often seasonal, movement of organisms from one habitat to another, typically involving a return journey to the starting point, in response to environmental factors like climate, food availability, or reproductive needs
What is migration?
An event that changes an ecosystem, such as fire, storm, or human activity.
What is a disturbance?
The outermost layer of the atmosphere
What is the exosphere?
The location where convection currents are found in within the Earth
The mantle
Whales and barnacles
What is commensalism?
morphological adaptation in which one species evolves to resemble another species for protection or other advantages
What is mimicry?
The first plants to return after a disturbance in primary succession
What are lichens and mosses? (pioneer species)
The layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up
The Earth is _____ on its imaginary axis at a 23.5 degree angle
tilted
Relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed, i.e. a flea and a dog
What is parasitism?
The process by which one species splits into two or more species
What is speciation?
What is secondary succession?
The layer that contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
The earth spins around its imaginary axis
What is rotation?
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size
What is limiting factor?
They used to be a white/light color to camoflauge with pale birch trees. The smog from the Industrial revolution emissions coated the birch trees in black, so it became more advantageous for the moths with darker coloring. Over multiple generations, more darker moths survived and reproduced, so the overall population had more commonly dark coloring.
A stable, mature community that undergoes little change in species.
What is climax community?
The hottest layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
The Earth is in constant orbit around the sun, caused by a gravitational pull. One orbit is about 365 days
What is revolution?
Population growth rate equation
What is growth rate = (births +immigration)- (deaths + emigration)
Over what time period does natural selection and adaptation occur?
What is multiple generations?
An example of a disturbance that would lead to secondary succession
fire, flooding, and other natural disasters
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs and contains the vast majority of air that we breathe
What is the troposphere?