chapter 3 vocab quiz
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- tundra climate
- a cold regoin with low rainfall, lying gernerally between subarctic and polar climate regions
- topsoil
- first layer of soil and has humas, insects, and plants
- currents
- giant streams of ocean water that move from warm to cold or from cold to warm areas
- plant succession
- the gradual process by which one group of olants replaces anorher
- steppe
- a wide flat grasslands region that streatches from ukraineacruss souther russia
- desert climate
- a climate which is try much of the time and has many barren rocky or sandy areas has not day tempand repidccooling at night. also has dry air and chear skies
- air pressure
- the weight of the air measured by a barometer
- steppe climate
- a dry climate type gemerally pound between desert a wet climate regions
- photosynthesis
- the process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy
- subsoil
- layer under the topsoil only deep roots of some plants like trees
- barometer
- an instument that measures air pressure
- ecosystem
- all the plants and animals in an aled tugether with the nonliving parts of the enviroment
- front
- the unstable weather where a large amount of warm air meets a large amout of cold air
- food chain
- a series of organisms in which energy is passed along
- low latitude climates
- the region close to the equator which has two main tyoes of climates
- high latitude climates
- region close to the poles. have cold temperature and little precipitation
- plant communities
- groups of plants that live in the same area
- highland climates
- the climates that mountains have varies depending on where you die on th mountain
- humid tropical climates
- a climate that is warm and rainy all year
- middle latitude climates
- climate region which is located between 66.n and s and 23.s n and s mostly has coolor cold winters and warm of hot summers some has wet and dry seasons
- nutrients
- substances promothin growth