Weather is the day-to-day condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
Climate refers to an average, year - after - year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region. Greenhouse affect is the natural situation in which heat is retained by this layer of greenhouse gases As a result of differences in latitude and thus the angle of heating, Earth has three main climate zones: polar, temperate, and tropical. Polar zones are cold areas where the sun's rays strike Earth at a very low angle. Temperate zones sit between the polar zones and the tropics. Temperate zones are more affected by the changing angle of the sun over the course of a year, the climate in these zones ranges from hot to cold, depending on the season. Tropical zone is near the equator, between 23.5° North and 23.5° South latitudes. The tropics thus receive direct or nearly direct sunlight year -round, making the climate almost always warm |
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Biotic factors is the biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem.
Abiotic factors is physical, or nonliving, factors that shape ecosystems Together, biotic and abiotic factors determine the survival and growth of an organism and the productivity of the ecosystem in which the organism lives. Habitat is the area where an organism lives Niche is the full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions. Resources refers to any neccesity of life. Competitive exclusion principle is a fundamental rule in ecology Predation is an interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism Symbiosis is any relationship in which two species live closely together. There are three main classes of symbotic relationships in nature: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. Mutualism is both species benefit from the relationship. Commensalism is one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed. Parasitism is one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it. Ecosystems are constanly changing in response to natural and human disturbances. As an ecosystem changes, older inhabitants gradually die out and new organisms move in, causing further changes in the community. Ecoloical succesion is the series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over a time. Primary succesion is the succesion occurs on surfaces where no soil exists Pioneer species is the first species to populate the area. Secondary succesion is when the disturbance is over, community interactions tend to restore the ecosystem to its original condition |
Biome is a complex of terrestrial communities that covers a large area and is characterized by certain soil and climate conditions ad particular assemblages of plants and animals.
Tolerance is an ability to survive and reproduce under conditions that differ from their optimal conditions Microclimate is the climate in a small area that differs from the climate around it The world's major biomes include tropical rain forest, tropical dry forest, tropical savanna, desert, temperate grassland, northwestern coniferous forest, boreal forest, and tundra. Each of thers biomes is defined by a unique set of abiotic factors-particularly climate-and a characteristic assemblage of plants and animals. |
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Aquatic ecosystems are determined primarily by the depth, flow, temperature, and chemistry of the overlying water.
Freshwater ecosystems can be divided into two main types: Flowing-water ecosystems and standing-water ecosystems. Flowing-water ecosystem is rivers, streams, creeks, and brooks that flow over the land. Standig-water ecosystems is lakes and ponds. Plankton is a general term for the tiny, free-floatin organisms that live in both freshwaterr and saltwater environments. Phytoplankton, or unicellular algae, are supported by nutrients in the water and form the base of many aquatic food webs. Zooplankton, or planktonic animals, feed on the phytoplankton. Wetland is an ecosystem in which water either covers the soil or is present at or near the surface of the soil for at least part of the year. Estuaries are wetlands formedwhere rivers meet the sea. Detritus is made up of tiny pieces of organic material that provide food for organisms at the base of the estuary's food web. Salt marshes are temperate-zone estuaries dominated by salt-tolerant grasses above the low-tide line, and by seagrasses under water. Mangrove swamps are coastal wetlands that are widespread across tropical regions, including southern Florida and Hawaii. Marine ecosystems Photic zone is photosynthesis is limited to this well-lit upper layer Aphotic zone is permanently dark. Chemosynthetic autotrophs are the only producers that can survive in the aphotic zone. In addition to the division between the photic and aphotic zones, marine biologists divide the ocean into zones based on the depth and distance from shores: the intertidal zone, the coastal ocean, and the open ocean. Zonation is the prominent horizontal banding of organisms that live in a particular habitat. Coastal ocean extends from the low-tide mark to the outer edge of the continental shelf, the relatively shallow border that surrounds the continents Kelp forests are named for their dominant organism: a giant brown alga that can grow at extraordinary rates-as much as 50 cm a day. Coral reefs are named for the coral animals whose hard, calcium carbonate skeletons make up their primary structure. Benthos organisms that live attached to or near the bottom. |