AP Biology Unit 8: Ecology Exam with 100% Accurate Solutions 20204/2025 Update
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AP Biology Unit 8: Ecology Exam with
100% Accurate Solutions 20204/2025
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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 orga...
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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