Ecology Vocabulary Word Scramble
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What is Tolerance? | The ability to survive and reproduce under a range of environmental circumstances. |
What is a habitat? | The general pace where an organism lives. |
What is a niche? | How an organism interacts with biotic and abiotic factors. |
What is a resource? | Any necessity of life. |
What is the competitive exclusion principle? | It means that no two species can occupy exactly the same niche in exactly the same habitat at exactly the same time. |
What is predation? | When one animal captures and feeds on another animal. |
What is herbivory? | When an animal feeds on producers (plants) |
What is a keystone species? | A singe species |
What is symbiosis? | A relationship in which two species live closely together. |
What is mutualism? | A relationship in which two species benefit. |
What is parasitism? | When an organism lives inside or on another organism and harms it. |
What is commenalism? | A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped or harmed. |
What is ecological succession? | A series of more or less predictable changes that occur in a community over time. |
What is primary succession? | Succession that begins in an area with no remnants of an older community. |
What is a pioneer species? | The first species to colonize in barren areas |
What is secondary succession? | When a disturbance affects the community without completely disturbing it. |
What is weather? | Weather is the day to day conditions of Earth's atmosphere. |
What is climate? | The average state of temperature and precipitation over long periods of time. |
What are microclimates? | Environmental conditions that very over small distances. |
What is the greenhouse effect? | The atmosphere trapping in heat. |
What is a canopy? | Tall trees that form a dense, leafy covering |
What is an understory? | Shorter trees and vines under the canopy |
What is deciduous? | A plant that sheds its leaves in a particular season. |
What is humus? | A material formed from decaying leaves and other organic matter. |
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