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AP Biology Unit 8: Ecology Exam with 100% Accurate Solutions 20204/2025 Update Climate - The long-term prevailing weather conditions at a given place. abiotic - Nonliving; referring to the physical and chemical properties of an environment. biotic - Pertaining to the living factors—the orga...

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AP Biology Unit 8: Ecology Exam with

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Climate - ✔✔The long-term prevailing weather conditions at a given place.

abiotic - ✔✔Nonliving; referring to the physical and chemical properties of

an environment.

biotic - ✔✔Pertaining to the living factors—the organisms—in an

environment.

biomes - ✔✔Any of the world's major ecosystem types, often classified by

temperature and precipitation

disturbance - ✔✔A natural or human-caused event that changes a

biological community and usually removes organisms from it. Disturbances,

such as fires and storms, play a pivotal role in structuring many

communities.

thermocline - ✔✔A narrow stratum of abrupt temperature change in the

ocean and in many temperate-zone lakes.

, dispersal - ✔✔The movement of individuals or gametes away from their

parent location. This movement sometimes expands the geographic range

of a population or species.

tropical forest - ✔✔A terrestrial biome characterized by relatively high

precipitation and temperatures year-round.

savanna - ✔✔A tropical grassland biome with scattered individual trees and

large herbivores and maintained by occasional fires and drought.

desert - ✔✔A terrestrial biome characterized by very low precipitation.

chaparral - ✔✔A biome characterized by mild, rainy winters and long, hot,

dry summers; dominated by dense, spiny evergreen shrubs

temperate grassland - ✔✔A terrestrial biome that exists at midlatitude

regions and is dominated by grasses and forbs.

temperate broadleaf forest - ✔✔A biome located throughout midlatitude

regions where there is sufficient moisture to support the growth of large,

broadleaf deciduous trees.

northern coniferous forest - ✔✔A terrestrial biome characterized by long,

cold winters and dominated by cone-bearing trees.

tundra - ✔✔A terrestrial biome at the extreme limits of plant growth. At the

northernmost limits, it is called arctic tundra, and at high altitudes, where

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