Ecology 2 Vocabulary

Environmental change that occurs quickly and affects organism immediately

• Short-term environmental change
• Cold Front
• Selective Breeding
• High Pressure System (H)

Environmental change that occurs slowly over time and affects organisms over generations.

• Long-term environmental change
• Pioneer Species
• Selective Breeding
• Trait

The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.

• Adaptation
• Short-term environmental change
• Runoff
• Climate

A violent, usually destructive, natural occurrence

• Selective Breeding
• Catastrophic Event
• Trait
• Cold Front

A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more than 120 km/h.

• Air Mass
• Lichen
• Pioneer Species
• Hurricane

A map that uses symbols to show weather data

• Weather Map
• Ecological Succession
• Selective Breeding
• Climate

forms when cold air moves under warm air which is less dense and pushes air up (produces thunderstorms heavy rain or snow

• Pollution
• Jet Stream
• Runoff
• Cold Front

A front where warm air moves over cold air and brings drizzly rain and then are followed by warm and clear weather.

• Warm Front
• Pollution
• Ecological Succession
• Lichen

Generally brings clear skies and calm air or gentle breezes

• Warm Front
• Short-term environmental change
• High Pressure System (H)
• Trait

A weather system that usually brings cloudiness(overcast skies), stormy weather, and high winds.

• Air Mass
• Weather Map
• Runoff
• Low Pressure System (L)