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What is a saprotroph?
Secretes digestive enzymes onto non-living organic matter
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What is the greenhouse effect?
the increase in average temperature of the earth over a period of time
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what is carrying capacity
The maximum number of individuals that a particular habitat can support
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What is Evolution?
The process of cumulative change in the heritable characteristics of a population
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What is Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protoctista, Prokaryotae
List the 5 Kingdoms
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What is the deep sea (with hyrdothermal vents supplying chemical energy instead of light energy)?
Food chain that starts without sunlight
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What is the Precautionary principle
An ethical theory which says that action should be taken to prevent harm even if there is not sufficient data to prove that the activity will have sever negative consequences
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What is emigration?
This ia when members of a population leave
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Antiobiotic-resistant bacteria
Give an example of natural selection
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who is Carolus Linaeus?
He came up with Binomial Nomenclature
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What is 10-20%?
the % (range) of energy used from previous step in food chain
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What are carbs, proteins, lipids, atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere?
List 3 of the 6 places carbon is found
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what is the exponential phase, the transitional phase, and the plateau phase
List the three phases of population growth
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What is Fossil record, Artificial selection, and Homologous anatomical structures.
List the 2 of the 3 phenomena that provide evidence for the theory of evolution
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What is Coniferophyta?
This plant phylum includes cedar, juniper, fir, and pine trees
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What are earthworms, woodlice, dung beetles etc.?
Name two examples of detritivores
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an increase in photosynthetic rates
changes in climate with varying effects on ecosystems extinction of certain species melting glaciers a rise in sea level and flooding
List 3 of the 5 impacts of a global rise in temperature on the environment
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What are plentiful resources, limited competition, limited predation?
List 2 reasons for exponential growth of a population
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What are mutations in DNA and Sexual reproduction
These are the two causes of genetic variety
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what are Dichotomous keys?
classifies organisms based on physical characteristics
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What is the hydrosphere (water), atmosphere (gases), lithosphere (rocks), and biosphere (all living organisms)?
Name the four main components to the environment
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What are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane
A rise in human population and activity has led to an increase in concentrations of these 3 gasses
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what is availability of resources
build up of waste predation disease
These 4 limiting factors define the carrying capacity of a habitat
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Who is Will Kelsh?
This is the idiot of the group
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what is porifera
cnidaria platyhelminthes annelida mollusca arthropoda
List 4 of the 7 animal phyla
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