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Biology Chapter 4
Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Weather | Day-to-day condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place |
| Climate | average, year-after-year conditions of temperature |
| Greenhouse Effect | Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, other atmospheric gases trap heat energy and maintain earth's temperature range. |
| Effect of latitude on climate | As a result of differences in latitude and thus teh angle of heating, earth has three main climate zones. |
| Biotic factors | biological living factors on orgnanisms |
| Abiotic factors | physical/nonliving factors |
| Niche | The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions. No two species can share the same niche. |
| Community interactions | competition, predation, sybiosis |
| Mutualism | both benefit |
| Commensalism | one benefits, one is unaffected |
| Parasitism | one benefits, one suffers |
| Primary succession | occurs where no soil exists |
| Pioneer species | first species to populate an area lichen |
| Secondary succession | disturbance changes a community but leaves the soil. |