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Ecology Woods
Chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| weather | condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place |
| climate | average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region |
| greenhouse effect | natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases |
| biotic factor | biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem |
| abiotic factor | physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem |
| niche | full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organisms use those conditions |