Ecology Easier Flashcards
(48 cards)
What’s the nonliving part of the environment including water, rocks, light, nutrients, soil, and temperature.
Abiotic (factors).
What’s the AVERAGE weather conditions for an environment (usually on a yearly or monthly basis).
Climate
What is The DAILY environmental conditions. These can change from day to day or even from hour to hour.
Weather
What are the Living factors of an environment, such as bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.
Biotic (factors)
Relating to a living organism, a living entity.
Organic
What is A living thing ; anything that can carry out life processes independently.
An Organism
What’s A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical areas.
Population
What’s A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
Species
What’re All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.
Community
What’s A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.
Ecosystem
What’s The part of earth where life exists.
Biosphere
What’s the Study of the geographic distribution on plants and animals.
Biogeography
What’re Species that evolved in the defined area.
Native (Ingenious) species
What’re Species from another area living in a foreign environment.
Invasive (Transplant) species
Zebra Mussels and Fire Ants.
Are accidental transplants.
Kudzu
A purposeful transplant.
What’s a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities.
Biomes
Sun, wind, and rain (patterns).
Are climate patterns.
Oceans, mountains, ponds, and lakes.
Are local effects.
What local effects act as heat banks. (coastal/island areas generally warmer than interior areas) The water absorbs the sunlight’s energy (so we don’t fry) during the day and releases the energy at night to keep the dark side of the planet warm?
What are oceans.
What local effects create a rain shadow effect which creates deserts on the backside. As the winds come off the water, they are heavy with moisture. When those winds run into mountains, the air is forced upward resulting in the moisture getting cooler and condensing resulting in lots of rain on the front side of the mountain. With no moisture left as the winds reach the backside or “shadow side” of the mountain, you get deserts typically. (Look at California and Nevada.)?
Mountains create this local effect.
Wind increases with what?
Altitude.
Animals tend to be furrier and plants seem to be smaller…….
In high altitudes (which happens to be windy).
Temperatures on average drop how many degrees Celsius for each how many meters up altitude.
6 degrees Celsius and 1000 meters up.
