Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Question 1

Year after year conditions of the weather, and it’s temperature

Answer 1

Climate

Question 2

Predicament when heat is kept on the earth by carbon dioxide, methane, water sports, and other gases

Answer 2

Greenhouse effect

Question 3

At a cold place on earth, where the sun beats down very lightly on the earths surface

Answer 3

Polar zone

Question 4

Medium temperature areas between the polar zones, and the tropics

Answer 4

Temperate zone

Question 5

Warm temperature that gets most-to-all sunlight all year

Answer 5

Tropical zone

Question 6

Living influence on organisms that live in an ecosystem

Answer 6

Biotic factor

Question 7

Factors that forms an ecosystem; living or non-living

Answer 7

Abiotic factor

Question 8

General area in which an organism thrives, which includes abiotic and biotic factors

Answer 8

Habitat

Question 9

Complete range of physical and biological conditions that an organism thrives in and the way that the organism uses the conditions

Answer 9

Niche

Question 10

A need for a living thing; water, nutrients, light, food, and space

Answer 10

Resource

Question 11

The ecological rule that two species that are alike can not be in the same habitat at the same time

Answer 11

Competitive Exclusion Principal

Question 12

Communication when one organism catches and eats the other organism

Answer 12

Predation

Question 13

Relationship when two species live in a compact area

Answer 13

Symbiosis

Question 14

Symbiotic relationship when both organisms are favored from the relationship

Answer 14

Mutualism

Question 15

Symbiotic relationship when one affiliate of the affiliation benefits, and the other is not harmed or helped

Answer 15

Commensalism

Question 16

Symbiotic relationship when one organism thrives in or on another organism and can harm it

Answer 16

Parasitism

Question 17

Steady change in living communities that goes along with a disturbance

Answer 17

Ecological Succession

Question 18

Succession that occurs when there is no soil

Answer 18

Primary Succession

Question 19

The first species to make a certain place home, and to reproduce in, during primary succession

Answer 19

Pioneer species

Question 20

Succession that comes after a disturbance that ruins a community without ruining the soil

Answer 20

Secondary succession

Question 21

Condition of the earth during certain seasons

Answer 21

Weather

Question 22

accumulation of ecosystems that have comparable climate and dominant communities

Answer 22

Biome

Question 23

temperature in a little area that compares greatly from the temperature of the area around it

Answer 23

Microclimate

Question 24

Covering in a rain forest made by smaller trees and vine

Answer 24

Understory

Question 25

Words used that references to trees that make seed bearing cones and have thin leaves in the shape of a needle

Answer 25

Coniferous

Question 26

The evergreen forests in the subarctic areas

Answer 26

Taiga

Question 27

Organisms max to grow or live when subjected to unfavorable environmental factor

Answer 27

Tolerance

Question 28

Compacted covering that is made by leafy tops of rain forest trees

Answer 28

Canopy

Question 29

Word used to reference to a tree that removes its leaves during a season each year

Answer 29

Deciduous

Question 30

Material made from decomposing leaves and other organic matter

Answer 30

Humus

Question 31

Covering of permanently frozen subsoil in the tundra

Answer 31

Permafrost

Question 32

Little, free floating, not strong swimming organisms that live in aquatic environments

Answer 32

Plankton

Question 33

Little animals that make a section of the plankton

Answer 33

Zooplankton

Question 34

Where the end of the river meets the ocean

Answer 34

Estuary

Question 35

Temperate zone estuary dominated by grass that can handle salt, above the low tide and seagrasses below the water

Answer 35

Salt marsh

Question 36

Highly lit upper covering of the ocean

Answer 36

Photic zone

Question 37

Extrusive horizontal banding of organisms that thrive in a certain habitat

Answer 37

Zonation

Question 38

The community named for it dominant organisms along the coastline ocean- kelp, a huge brown alga

Answer 38

Kelp forest

Question 39

Organisms that thrive connected to or close to the ocean bottom

Answer 39

Benthos

Question 40

Grouping of algae and other little, photosynthetic organisms discovered near the top of the ocean and making part of plankton

Answer 40

Phytoplankton

Question 41

Ecosystem where water can cover the soil, or is showing at or close to the top of the soil for a part of the year

Answer 41

Wetland

Question 42

Particles of organic material that gives food for organisms at the base of an estuary's food web

Answer 42

Detritus

Question 43

Dominated by mangroves along the coastal wetland, woody plants are salt tolerant

Answer 43

Mangrove Swamp

Question 44

Permanently dark section of the oceans under the photic zone

Answer 44

Aphotic Zone

Question 45

Marine zone that stretches from the low tide mark to the end of the continental shelf

Answer 45

Coastal Ocean

Question 46

Contrasted and productive environment name for the coral organisms that are all over its primary structure

Answer 46

Coral reef