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30 Cards in this Set
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In which biome are most of the Mediterranean countries in Europe located?
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Chaparral
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What is a biome?
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Terrestrial environment defined by growth forms of its plants.
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Which of the following has the largest net primary production per unit area?
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Tropical Evergreen Forest
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What is Boreal Forest?
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found toward the equator from arctic tundra and lower elevations temperate zone mountains.
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The pattern of movement of a chemical element through organisms and the compartments of the global ecosystem is called the ____ cycle.
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Biogeochemical- chemical element moves through biotic & abiotic compartments.
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What is green house cycle?>
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Carbon cycle
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What is upwelling?
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nutrients suficing on the ocean
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What is hydrological?
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The water cycle
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What is biodiversity?
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Variation of life forms within an ecosystem, biomes, or entire earth.
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Which of the following biomes lacks a pronounced seasonal variation in the amount of precipitation?
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Tundra
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What is Tundra?
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Artic, low elevations
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Chaparral
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Very hot & dry
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Thorn Forest
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Heavy rain during only during the summer
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Tropical Decidious Forest
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Has all four seasons
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Which of the following occurrences is not considered to be a likely consequence of global warming?
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Increased ozone depletion (this is a cause of global warming)
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Bacteria move by means of
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flagella (tail for locomotion),
gas vesicles (gas moves them around) rolling |
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Is gross Primary production greater than net primary production?
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YES
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Carlous Linnaeus
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originated the binomial system of nomenclature & classified species based on morphology.
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In angiosperms, double fertilization results in the development of
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the embryo and the endosperm
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What are the characteristics of echioderms?
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Lack of brain, bilateral symmetry as larvae, and extensive fossil record, radial symmetry for adults
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Angiosperms have...
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true roots, flowers, leaves, stems and seeds
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What is a gap?
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Useful for aligning a sequence
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What is a similarity matrix?
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stronly related to their counterparts
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What is a parallel substitution?
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mutation occurs at the same site in "independent" lineages
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What is single substitution?
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rate at which 1 character in a sequence changes state overtime. In amino acids or DNA
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Sexual selection has two parts: what are they?
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Male-male competition
Intrasexual selection (by female) |
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What biogeographical region is the continental US?
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Neartic (nea-new)
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Paleartic
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Europe & North Asia (largest ecozone)
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temperate decidious forest
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EN America, E Asia, Europe
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Neotropical
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S & Central America, the Mexican lowlands, & S Florida
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