APES Unit 1 Exam Review Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+

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APES Unit 1 Exam Review Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, graded A+ intraspecific - ✔✔-competition between members of the same species interspecific - ✔✔-competition between members of... different species competitive exclusion - ✔✔-1 species is a stronger competitor than the other coexisting species - ✔✔-species alter behaviors to minimize competition, altering their niche niche - ✔✔-A species role in an ecosystem selective pressure - ✔✔-when the environment pushes an individual or population to adapt or evolve parasitism - ✔✔-One organism benefits and the other is harmed mutualism - ✔✔-symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit temperate deciduous forest - ✔✔-Extreme range of temperatures with different seasons Even precipitation throughout Trees lose leaves in winter temperate grasslands - ✔✔-Extreme summers and winters Diminishing rainfall in different seasons Prairies Rich soil temperate rainforest - ✔✔-moderate temperatures high precipitation coastal tropical rainforest - ✔✔-Constant, high precipitation High temperatures, dark, damp Most productive biome tropical dry forest - ✔✔-Relatively high temperatures Distinct dry season Wet 50% of year, dry the other 50% savanna - ✔✔-tropical grassland dry, tropical areas distinct wet and dry seasons high temperatures desert - ✔✔-Extreme range of temperatures Very low precipitation Driest biome Tundra - ✔✔-Very dry/little precipitation Very low temperatures Underground soil is permafrost Most directly impacted by climate change Least productive biome boreal forest - ✔✔-Low temperatures Low precipitation Acidic soils Dominated by evergreen trees "Taiga" Chaparral - ✔✔-Mild, wet winters Dry, hot summers Dense thicket of shrubs "shrubland" intertidal - ✔✔-biome between high and low tide marshland - ✔✔-low lying wetlands near shorelines tides washing over sandy substrates "salt marshes" mangroves - ✔✔-along coasts protect shorelines provide a place for organism to thrive on estuary - ✔✔-where ocean saltwater meets stream freshwater creates brackish water fluctuating salinity one of most productive coral reef - ✔✔-The most diverse marine biome on Earth found in warm, shallow waters beyond the shoreline have symbiotic relationship with algae and zooxnthellae open ocean - ✔✔-plankton is basis of foo [Show More]

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