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What is overharvesting?
This is a term that is used to describe when a population is harvested over their population growth.
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What are the dinosaurs?
These lizards went extinct 65 million years ago.
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What is over?
This prefix is used in both population and harvesting.
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Who is Steven Spielberg?
This famous director created Jurassic Park.
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What is tRNA?
This type of RNA moves amino acids to the ribosome.
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What are ecosystem services?
The process through which natural ecosystems sustain human life is called this.
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What is the Dodo?
This famous flightless bird went extinct around 350 years ago.
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What is the ocean?
This ecosystem is under the most threat of overharvesting.
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What is "Life finds a way"
This famous line was said by Jeff Goldblum's character in the movie.
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What is an intron?
This sequence is removed from the DNA transcript during RNA processing.
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What are introduced species?
This term describes a species that has moved to a new geographic location, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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What is the woolly mammoth?
This elephant like creature went extinct around 4,000 years ago.
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What is the Amazon?
This South American rainforest is under a dangerous threat of deforestation.
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What is amber?
The mosquitos with dinosaur DNA were fossilized in this material.
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What is osmo?
This four letter answer comes before both regulation and larity.
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What is a threatened species?
This is a species who is considered likely to become endangered in the future
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What is the Northern White Rhino?
The last male of this species died in 2018, leaving only two females left in the world.
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What is Africa?
This continent has the most deforestation.
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Who is John Williams?
This famous composer made the Jurassic Park soundtrack.
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What is the Krebs cycle?
Also called the citric acid cycle, this process is the main source of energy for cells.
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What is genetic diversity?
This term describes the genetic variation within a population, and between populations.
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What is the coelacanth?
This type of prehistoric fish was thought to be extinct, but discovered to still be living off the coast of Africa in 1938.
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What is acid precipitation?
This type of global change is caused by the reaction of water with sulfur and nitrogen in the air.
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What is 5?
This number is the amount of Jurassic Park movies currently released.
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What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
This type of endoplasmic reticulum regulates the calcium concentration in the cytosol of muscle cells.
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