Levels of Organization
Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
What are species?
Part of Earth where life exists, including land, water, and air/atmosphere
What is biosphere?
This zone is near the equator. Has a warm/hot climate year-round
What is tropical climate zone?
The scientific study of interactions among organisms, populations, and communities, and their interactions with their environment
What is ecology?
Patterns and averages of temperature, precipitation, clouds, and winds over many years
What is climate?
Groups of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
What is population?
Thin layer of gases that surrounds Earth
What is atmosphere?
This zone has very hot summers and very cold winters
What is the temperate zone?
Any living part/factor of the environment
What is biotic factor?
Short-term changes in the temperature, precipitation, clouds, and wind from day to day, or minute to minute
What is weather?
Assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
What is community?
All of the rock at and below the Earth’s surface
What is geosphere?
This zone has bitterly cold winters and summers barely get warm
What is the polar climate zone?
Any physical, nonliving factor that shapes an ecosystem
What is abiotic factor?
Name an abiotic factor in an aquatic ecosystem
Examples: sunlight, water, pH, salinity, pH, rocks, sand, oxygen
All the organisms that live in a place, together with their nonliving/physical environment
What is ecosystem?
All of the water - saltwater and freshwater, in the form of liquid, gas, or vapor - above or below the Earth’s surface and on the atmosphere
What is the hydrosphere?
Phenomena where visible light, from the sun, enters the atmosphere and traps heat
What is the greenhouse effect?
Can something be both an abiotic factor and a biotic factor?
What is NO?
Delaware is found in this climate zone
What is temperate climate zone?
Group of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms
What is biome?
This is the -sphere where greenhouse gases are trapped when sunlight hits Earth
What is the atmosphere?
Examples of these are carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. These trap heat in the atmosphere
What are greenhouse gases?
Give an example of a biome/ecosystem
Tundra, forest, rain forest, temperate grassland, savanna, deciduous forest, pond, wetlands, ocean, shore
Climate and weather are ultimately powered and shaped by this type of energy
What is solar?