Chapter 4 Review CP1

Climate zone near the equator and is warm/hot year round

Keystone Species is a species that is not usually abundant in a community but has a ____ control on a community

Climate zone where summers can be very hot and winters can be very cold

any necessity of life, such as water, nutrients, light, food, or space

Range of physical and biological conditions in which a species lives; how the species obtains what it needs to survive

Earth’s climate zones are produced by an __________ distribution of the solar energy across the Earth’s surface

Climate zone where winters are bitterly cold and summers barely get warm

relationship in which two species live close together

Earth’s average temperature is the balance between heat that stays in the atmosphere and heat that is lost in _______

Which is NOT a greenhouse gas?

Species ability to survive and reproduce under a range of environmental circumstantces

symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it

There is a difference of heat received at the poles compared to the equator

Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth would be ___________

General place where an organism lives

Predation: interaction in which one animal feeds on producers

Solar energy is the main factor that shapes global climate

Predation: interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism

Average year-to-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area over a long period of time

symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

Which is more predictable: climate or weather?

Earth orbits

Herbivory: interaction in which one animal feeds on producers

Competitive Exclusion Principle states that 2 species CAN occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time

Day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere, including temperature, precipitation, and other factors

symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship