Climate
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is day to day conditions of the atmosphere, while climate is average conditions over longer periods of time.
What is the difference between intraspecific and interspecific competition?
Intraspecies is between members of the same species while interspecies is between organisms of different species.
What is a pioneer species?
The first species to enter into a community following primary succession.
What is the term for the graph used to show seasonal temperatures and precipitation of a climate?
Climate diagram.
What is the difference between the photic and aphotic zone?
Photosynthesis can occur in photic but not in aphotic.
What are the two things that determine a regions climate?
Chronic changes in temperature and precipitation.
What is the type of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is neither benefited or harmed?
Commensalism.
What is a climax community?
A developed, stable community prior to a disturbance.
Which biome is characterized by a layer of permanently frozen topsoil?
Tundra.
Which of the following climate zones receives the most direct sunlight year round: temperate, tropical, polar.
Tropical.
What is a keystone species?
What causes instability in climax communities?
Name a reason an organism may need to migrate away from their biome during the year?
How are estuaries different from freshwater wetlands?
Estuaries are where a river meets the ocean, leads to a mixing of salt and freshwater.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor allow visible light to enter but trap heat, such as in a greenhouse.
What is the difference between an organism's habitat and it's niche?
Habitat is the general place where it lives, niche is the physical and biological conditions in which the organism lives and how it gets what it needs to survive and reproduce.
What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
Primary succession means that the community is completely destroyed following a disturbance. In secondary, a small portion of the community remains.
What biome is Dallas, TX?
Temperate grassland.
Which of the three ocean zones contains both the a photic and aphotic zone?
Why do temperate and polar zones receive very different amounts of solar energy at different times of the year?
The curvature of the earth.
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
States that no two species can occupy the same exact niche in exactly the same habitat at the exact same time.
Name an example of a human disturbance in a community.
Logging or farming.
How do organisms in deserts adapt to live in extreme temperatures?
Plants: store water in tissues, minimize leaf surface area, specialized photosynthesis
Animals: get their water through their food, are nocturnal, large ears
Why are estuaries considered extremely valuable?
They provide a spawning and nursery location for ecologically and commercially important species such as bluefish, striped bass, shrimp, and crabs.