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Who is the father of taxonomy?
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Linnaeus
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List the seven taxonomic categories.
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kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
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Name the six kingdoms
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Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria
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What is the study of organisms and their interaction with an environment?
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ecology
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What are the levels of ecology?
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Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, species, individual
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What is the importance of the ozone layer to organisms?
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It blocks harmful UV rays
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What is a chemical compound that is making holes in the ozone layer?
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CFCs
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What is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences because trap energy from the sun?
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greenhouse effect
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What is a resource that CANNOT be re-grown, regenerated, or reused?
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non renewable resource
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What type of resource is fossil fuels?
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non renewable
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What is a resource that can be re-grown, regenerated, or reused.
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Renewable resource
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What type of resource is timber?
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renewable
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What type of factors are living?
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biotic
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what type of factors are non-living?
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abiotic
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What is the role of an organism in a community?
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niche
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List factors that can limit population size.
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Food, money, and land
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What is something that prevents a population from growing?
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Limiting factor
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How does limiting factor affect carrying capacity?
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Animals can increase in numbers very quickly exceed the carrying capacity
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What is ecological relationship between the individuals of two different species?
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symbiosis
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What is it when one species benefits and the other neither benefits or harms?
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commensalism
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When one species benefits for growth and reproduction to the harm of the other species?
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parasitism
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When both members of the association benefit?
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mutualism
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What is the initial rapid colonizer species?
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pioneer community
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What is it when it is too wet for desert and too dry for forests?
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climax community
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What is gradual growth of organisms in an area that was previously bare?
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primary succession
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What is a community changes which take place on a previously colonized, but disturbed or damaged habitat?
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secondary succession
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What is an organism that makes its own food?
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producer
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What is a organism that gets its energy from producers?
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primary consumer
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What is a consumer that gets its energy from other consumers?
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secondary consumer
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What is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants?
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herbivore
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What is an organism that consume dead or decaying organisms?
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decomposer
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What is an organism that cannot make its own food?
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heterotroph
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What is an organism that can make its own food
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autotroph
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What is an animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals?
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carnivore
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What is an organism is its position in a food chain?
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trophic level
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What describes the eating relationships between species within an ecosystem?
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food chain
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What shows how plants and animals are connected in many ways to help them all survive?
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food webs
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What is an area on the earth's surface that has a certain set of characteristics?
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biome
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What is the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes?
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symmetry
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What type of symmertry is not symmetrical?
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asymmetry
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What is the condition of having similar parts regularly arranged around a central axis?
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radial symmetry
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What is it when the left and right side are exactly alike?
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bilateral symmetry
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Toward the front or in front of.
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anterior
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Situated in back of or in the back part of or affecting the back
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posterior
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Pertaining to the back
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dorsal
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Pertaining to the belly
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ventral
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What is an axial mesodermal tissue found in embryonic stages?
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notochord
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What is a member of a diverse phylum of animals that prossess a notochord?
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chordate
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What are the three layers of cells comprising the early embryo?
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germ layer
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What is the internal skeleton?
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endoskeleton
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Give an example of an endoskeleton
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human skeletion
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What is a skeleton on the outside of the body?
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exoskeleton
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Give an example of an exoskeleton.
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Crab shell
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What is it when an animal routinely casts off a part of its body?
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molting
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What is the first stage of a new unique organism when it consists of just a single cell?
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zygote
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What is an early stage of embryonic development in animals?
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blastula
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What is it when the morphology of the embryo is dramatically restructured by cell migration?
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gastrulation
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What is a two-layered sac of ectoderm and endoderm surrounding an archenteron that communicates with the exterior through the blastopore?
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gstrula
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What is the innermost layer of the germ layer and what system does it form?
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endoderm; endocrine
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What emerges first and forms from the outermost of the germ layers? system?
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ectoderm; nervous and integumentary
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What produces an additional layer that lies between the endoderm and the ectoderm? Systems?
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mesoderm; skeletal, circulatory, muscular, reproductive, and urinary
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What is the symmetry of sponges?
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asymmetry
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What symmetry do cnidarians have?
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radial symmetry
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Ex of a cnidarian?
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jellyfish
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What symmetry do ctenophores have?
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biradial symmetry
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What is an invertebrate that has an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed attachments called appendages?
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arthropod
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What is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching?
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metamorphosis
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Give a few ex of amphibians
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frog, toad, salamander
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