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18 Cards in this Set
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Good and bad of Ozone
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Good: blocks UV rays/prevents skin cancer
Bad: CFC's creating holes in ozone/ lots of UV rays thru |
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Importance of Legumes
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Provides a home for bacteria during the nitrogen cycle
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Global warming vs. global dimming
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-exact opposite
-counteract each other = if we get rid of global warming then global dimming takes over (vice versa) |
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What is Ecology?
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study of biotic and abiotic factors and their interactions
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Photic vs. Aphotic
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P = light gets in (photosynthetic area)/ gets oxygen & nutrients for aphotic
A = no light gets in/ gives back Co2 & nutrients |
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Causes, Results/consequences of the greenhouse effect
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C = Co2, methane, excess co in atomosphere
RC = [trapped heat] coastal flooding (icebergs melting), loss of habitat, shifts in global climate |
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Recyclable vs. Biodegradable
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R = reused in some way, may or may not be biodegradable & some require use of energy & more resources (ex: glass, plastic)
B = broken down live organisms & elements reused (ex: food, paper) |
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Role of decomposers
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to break down the dead organism and extract the nutrients from it
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succession
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LAND:
- rock - lichen - moss - grass - flowers - shrubs - sunloving trees - shade tolerant trees(climax community) WATER: - rock - lichen - moss - grass - flowers - shrubs - trees (climax community?) |
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Areas of great biodiversity (ecotones
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where 2 ecotones merge and organisms from each ecotone and organisms that can only be there when they are merged
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birth rate/death rate equation
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more living than dying = growing poulation
more dying than living = less population |
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Eutrophication
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-Phosphate enters the pond and removes O2
-less O2 = more things die and decompose -which means more P comes out of its sediment = algal bloom |
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ecology concepts with evolution
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DDT = killed some insects, others lived
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ecology concepts with systems and interaction
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how biotic affects abiotic & vice versa
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ecology concepts with homeostasis
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Predator/Prey
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Nature of science
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science is not static, it changes through out time
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Ways to remember succession
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Land: rocks like moss growing from shrubby sunloving/shade tolerant
Water: rocks like moss growing from shrubby trees |
