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Ecology-Lisa Guadalupe
chapter 4 vocabulary
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Biology
9th Grade
01/24/2007

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weather
Definition
day to day temperature
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climate
Definition
year to year climate
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greenhouse effect
Definition
sunlight that hits the earths atomosphere and traps but sum air escapes into space
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polar zone
Definition
cold areas were sun hit vey little
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temperate zones
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between polar and tropic zone
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tropical zones
Definition
near the equater
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biotic factors
Definition
living organisams
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abiotic factors
Definition
non living organisams
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habitat
Definition
area which an organisam lives
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niche
Definition
full range of phisical and biological conditions in which organizams live
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resourse
Definition
any nessesity of life
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predation
Definition
organisams that capture and feeds other organisams
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symbiosis
Definition
organisams that live together
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mutualism
Definition
spieces that benifit a relationship
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commensalim
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one member of the assosiation benifits and the other is not helped or harmed
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parasitism
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one organisam that lives or inside another organisam and harms it
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ecological succession
Definition
predictable changes that accures in a community over time
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primary succession
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succession that occuerson surfaces where no soil exists
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pioneer speices
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first speices that populatethe area
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secondary succession
Definition
community interactions that tend to restore the ecosystem to its original condition
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canopy
Definition
form dense coverings
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understory
Definition
second layer of shorter trees and vines
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permafrost
Definition
a layer frozen subsoil
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tiaga
Definition
boriel forests or biomes
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