Ecology Chapter 52

5. ___-climate describes the minute regions within a general climate zone that has their unique conditions
8. living attributes
9. ___ examines how an organism's structure and behavior interact with its environment
10. nonliving attributes like temperature, light, and nutrients
13. major life zone with distinct characteristics
14. dead organic matter
15. a temperature boundary that separates the warm and cold water
16. individual movement away from spawn points or dense population centers
19. a plot of temperature and precipitation in a region
20. ___ ecology examines the exchanges of materials across ecosystems

1. an event that changes a community
2. ____ ecology examines organisms across the biosphere
3. scientific study of the interactions between organisms and the environment
4. ___ ecology examines factors contributing to a population's distribution over time
5. ___-climate describes the overall patterns of a geographic region
6. an area where biomes blend
7. the sum of all ecosystems, the global ecosystem
11. a semiannual mixing of warm and cool water in lakes
12. a community of interacting organisms in an area
17. the cyclic fluctuation in the environment
18. a group of different species in a specific area