AP Environmental Science Flashcards

The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.

Parts of the earth's air, water, and soil where life is found.

A community of different species interacting with one another and with their nonliving environment of matter and energy.

<p>The population of different species living in a particular place, and potentially interacting with each other.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An individual, living thing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When species avoid competition by dividing the use of resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Savanna</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Biggest land biodiversity; occurs near the equator; plenty of light at the canopy; little light on the forest floor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regions of extremely cold temperature and low precipitation; little to no rainfall; below freezing temperatures year-round.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Warm climate with alternating wet and dry seasons; grassland with scattered trees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An extremely dry area that alternates between hot days and cold nights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cone-bearing evergreen trees; long cold winters with heavy rainfall.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trees drop their leaves annually; cold winters, hot summers; tree leaves change color in autumn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dense evergreen shrubs; rainy winters and dry summers; adapted to survive periodic bush fires.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deep nutrient-rich soil; known as Prairies; seasonal droughts and occasional fires.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A vast treeless plain in arctic regions; cold temperatures and permafrost.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dense covering formed by the leafy tops of tall rainforest trees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A layer of shorter plants that grows in the shady area below the canopy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The predator is an organism that eats another organism, the prey.</p> Signup and view all the answers