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24 Cards in this Set
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What is a Producer?
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All plants...
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Photosynthesis
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Solar Energy to Chemical Energy
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Consumers
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Herbivores and Carnivores
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Decomposers
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Dead Plants and animals that are indigestible by herbivores and carnivores
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Producers(plants) consume...
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water and co2 which makes carbs
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Consumers consume....
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carbs and release water and co2
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Decomposers consume...
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bacteria and fungi
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What is the most primitive of all cats?
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The cheetah
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How fast is the cheetah?
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Fastest land animal; 70 mph.
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When does the cheetah hunt?
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Diurnal hunter (daytime)
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What is the cheetah's favorite prey?
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Thomson's gazelle
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What is the second fastest land animal?
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Thomson's gazelle
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How come it can sometimes get away from the cheetah?
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Because, it is better at turning.
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Concerning the garter snake......what is ovoviparus?
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Eggs develop inside their body, and the young are born live.
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What is special about the Oregon Garter Snakes?
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They have developed a tolerance to the Taricha newts. (toxin)
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Why are the Oregon Tarcha Newts so deadly?
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They have tetrodotoxin in their skin.
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What can the tetrodotoxin do?
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Enough to kill 20,000 mice or 100's of people.
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What is Tetrodoxin?
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Neural toxin that blocks neural communication and leads to paralysis.
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An example of genetic reshaping would be?
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The garter snakes becoming more resistant to the newts toxin and the newts becoming more poisonous.
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The Nile crocodile is what type of predator?
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It is a generalist- meaning that it isn't a picky eater.
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What does a predator that's a specialist consume?
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It only hunts a few types of prety and its highly vulnerable to changes in populations.
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How long was the nile crocodile "relatively unchanged" for?
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400 million years.
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how long was the aardvark unchanged for?
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it was relatively unchanged for 70 million years.
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how many insects do aardvarks eat in a night?
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50,000
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