Chapter 4 Review

Climate refers to the short term weather in an area.

• True
• False

Solar energy getting trapped in the atmosphere is called the 

• succession
• secondary succession
• greenhouse effect
• weather

The sun's rays hit the tropical zone more directly. The zone that receives the most solar energy is the 

• Tropical Zone
• Temperate Zone
• Arctic Zone
• All parts of the planet receive the same amount of sunlight.

With a biological factor like temperature, most organisms have a small range they can survive in comfortably. This range is called the zone of ______________.

• Inhibition
• Optimum production
• Succession
• Tolerance

___________ is the general place where an organism lives.

• Tolerance
• Habitat
• Resource
• Home

___________ is the range of physical and biological conditions in which a species live and the way the species obtains what it needs to survive and reproduce.

• Habitat
• Resource
• Niche
• Biome

Which of these is not considered a resource?

• Food
• Time
• Water
• Air

Competition happens

• Between different species
• Within a single species
• Only with humans
• Between different species and within a single species

Species A and B have to compete for the same resources. Species A was not effective and died out.  This is an example of

• Primary succession
• secondary succession
• competitive exculsion principle
• Niche

This photo shows

• Parasitism
• Herbivory
• Predation
• Commensalism