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Chapter 2 Vocab
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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1.Ecosystem | Interaction of plant life, animal life, and the physical environment in witch they live. |
2.Biome | Term used to describe a major type of ecosystem that can be found in various regions throughout the world. |
3.Deciduous | Leaf-shedding; a type of tree that sheds its leafs during one season. |
4.Coniferous | Cone-bearing; a type of tree able to survive long, cold winters, with long, thin needles rather than leaves. |
5.Chaparral | Type of natural vegetation that is adapted too Mediterranean climates; |
6.Savanna | Tropical grassland with scattered trees, located in the warm lands near the equator. |
7.Herbivore | Plant eating animal. |
8.Carnivore | Meat eating animal. |
9.Prairie | Temperate grassland characterized by a great variety of grasses. |
10.Tundra | Dry, treeless plane where temperatures are always cool and cold and only specialized plants can grow. |
11.Permafrost | Layer of soil just below the earths surface that stays permanently frozen. |
12.Weather | Condition of the bottom layer of the earth's atmosphere over a short period of time. |
13.Climate | Term used of the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time. |
14.Rotation | Spinning motion of the earth, like a top on its axes, as it travels through space. |
15.Revolution | One complete orbit of the earth around the sun. The earth completes a revolution every 365 1/4 days, or one year. |
16.Solstice | Either of the two times a year when the sun appears directly overhead at the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. |
17.Equnox | Either of the two times a year(spring and fall) when day and night are of nearly equal length everywhere on earth. |
18.Percipation | All of the forms of water that fall to earth from the atmosphere, including rain and snow. |
19.Front | Boundary between two masses of air that differ in density and temperature. |
20.Continental Climate | Type of climate found in the great central areas of continents in the Northern hemisphere: characterized by cold, snowy winters and warm hot summers. |