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Question | Answer |
Weather | Day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere, including temperature, precipitation, and other factors. |
Climate | Average year-to-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area over long period of time. |
Microclimate | Environmental conditions within a small area that differs significantly from the climate of the surrounding area. |
Greenhouse Effect | Process in which certain gases (Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Water Vapor) trap sunlight energy in Earth's atmosphere as heat. |
Habitat | Area where an organism lives, including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it. |
Niche | Full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives, and the way in which the organism uses those conditions. |
Resource | Any necessity of life, such as water, nutrients, light, food, or space. |
Competitive Exclusion Principle | Principle that states that no two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time. |
Predation | Interaction in which one organism (the predator) captures and feeds on another organism (the prey). |
Keystone Species | Single species that is not usually abundant in a community, yet exerts strong control in the structure of the community. |
Symbiosis | Relationship in which two species live close together. |
Mutualism | Symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship. |
Parasitism | Symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it. |
Commensalism | Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. |
Ecological Succession | Series of gradual changes that occur in a community following a disturbance. |
Primary Succession | Succession that occurs in an area in which no trace of previous community is present. |
Secondary Succesion | Type of succession that occurs in an area that was only partially destroyed by a disturbance. |
Pioneer Species | First species to populate an area during succession. |
Permafrost | Layer of permanently frozen subsoil found in the tundra. |
Deciduous | Term used to refer to a type of tree that sheds its leaves during a particular season each year. |
Coniferous | Term used to refer to trees that produce sead-bearing cones and have thin leaves shaped like needles. |
Taiga | Biome with long child winters and a few months of warn weather; dominated by coniferous evergreens, also called boreal forest. |
Wetland | Ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface for at least part of the year. |
Estuary | A kind of wetland formed where a river meets the ocean. |
Plankton | Microscopic organisms that live in aquatic environments; includes both phytoplankton and zooplankton. |
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