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When the earth is tilted toward the sun, what season is it?
Summer
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What is limiting factor ?
In ecology, common limiting factor resources are environmental conditions that limit the growth,
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What is Tides
The daily rise and fall of Earth's waters on its coastline
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What is kinetic energy
the energy an object has due to its motion
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When the earth is tilted away from the sun, what season is it?
Winter
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What is carrying capacity?
the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation.
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How are tides caused?
By the interaction with the Earth, the moon, and the sun.
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What is energy
the ability to cause change
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Name the eight phases of the moon?
new moon, waxing cresent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waing gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent
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What is succession
the process by which a plant or animal community successively gives way to another until a stable climax is reached.
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What causes a tide?
Gravity
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What is thermal energy
energy that all objects have that increases as the object's temperature increases; the sum of the kinetic and potential energy of the particles in a material
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How many days does it take the moon to complete a cycle?
29 1/2 days or 1 month
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What are pioneer species ?
What is pioneer species
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What is Neal tide
The tide with the least height difference between high tide and low tide. Caused when the moon and the sun pull right angles at each other.
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What is electrical energy
energy carried by electricity
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How can tides create energy?
The movement of huge amounts of water between low and high tide can be a potential source of energy.
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What is Law of Conservation Energy
States that energy can change its form but is never created or destroyed
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