1 | weather | | _____ | warm limate zone that receives direct or nearly diret sunlight year round |
2 | climate | | _____ | biological incluence on organisms in an ecosystem |
3 | greenhouse effect | | _____ | symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism (the host) and consequently harms it |
4 | polar zone | | _____ | full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions |
5 | temperate zone | | _____ | ecological rule that states that no two species can occupy the same exact niche in the same habitat at the same time |
6 | tropical zone | | _____ | condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place |
7 | biotic factor | | _____ | succession that occurs on surfaces where no soil exists |
8 | abiotic factor | | _____ | the area where an organism lives, including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it" |
9 | habitat | | _____ | natural situation in a which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases" |
10 | niche | | _____ | physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem" |
11 | resource | | _____ | moderate climate zone between the polar zones and the tropics |
12 | competitive exlusion principle | | _____ | gradual change in living communities that follows a disturbance |
13 | predation | | _____ | symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship |
14 | symbiosis | | _____ | symbiotic relationship in which one member of the associations benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed |
15 | mutualism | | _____ | any necessity life, such as water, nutrients, light, food, or space" |
16 | commensalism | | _____ | cold climate zone where the sun's rays strike Earth at a very low angle |
17 | parasitism | | _____ | succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil |
18 | ecological succession | | _____ | relationship in which two species live closely together |
19 | primary succession | | _____ | first species to populate an area during primary succession |
20 | pioneer species | | _____ | interaction in whih one organism captures and feeds on another organism |
21 | secondary succession | | _____ | average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and particular region" |