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What is the disease that hits the Dogwood (Cornus florida)?
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Discula destrivtiva is a fungus that causes Discula Anthracnose and hits what kind of tree?
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What is the disease killing off the American Chestnut (Castanea dentate)
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Cryphonectria parasitica kills what tree by causing cankers when the bark splits?
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What are 4 disturbances to the Appalachian forest?
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Insects, Burning, Human development/involvement, and Global warming affect:
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The Eastern Hemlock is attacked by what?
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Wolly Adelgid attacks what tree?
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What methods have been investigated to stop the spread of the Wolly Adelgid?
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Carnivorous Beetles, Soap, and insecticide have been used to stop the spread of what insect?
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How log does it take a normal forest to undergo complete recycling?
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It tkes 50-200 years to do what to a forest?
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What disease is killing oaks in the western united states
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Sudden Oak death is killing trees where?
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What is so special about the black locust tree?
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What tree has nitrogen-fixing bacteria on its radial root system letting it grow in poor soil?
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What is the life cycle of the red spotted newt?
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What species has it's larvae with gills living in a pond, a 2-3 year red eft stage where the species is poisonous, and an adult stage at a different pond allowing for gene flow? If there are unfavorable conditions on land the eft stage can be skipped.
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What does Lotic Mean?
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Flowing or actively moving water including rivers and streams refers to what term?
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What does Lentic mean?
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Standing or still water including lakes, ponds, and swamps refers to what term?
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What is a first-order stream?
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What order is a stream where water first starts at the highest slope?
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How does one get a second order stream?
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what stream does one get when two first order streams or a second order stream and a first order stream collide?
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How does one get a 3rd order stream?
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what stream does one get when two second order stream combine?
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What is fall velocity?
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What is the term describing particle falling speed relating to water speed and where particles settle?
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What is detritus?
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What is the primary dead stuff, such as logs or leaves, in an ecosystem?
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What eats detritus?
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What do detritivores eat?
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What instrument measures temperature and conductivity?
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What does a salinity meter measure?
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What species can one find the the Tallulah Gorge
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Green salamander, Roundleaf sundew, mountain laurel, fence lizards, and more species can be found where?
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What two types can Cyprus Trees be?
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What tree an be bald or pond?
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What is the name for the dark acidic water in the Okefenokee swamp?
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Blackwater is the name for what?
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What is brackish water?
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What is the name for water that is a mixture of salt and fresh water?
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What are some differences between alligators and crocodiles?
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Crocs have a broader snout and show there teeth in comparison to what animal?
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How Many alligators are in the okefenokee swamp?
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10-12,000 animals of what species live in the okefenokee swamp?
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Who takes care of a National Wildlife Refuge?
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What does the US Fish & Wildlife service take care of?
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Where does peat come from.
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What does detritus create in swamps?
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What is a substrate?
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What term is used for material at the bottom of a body of water?
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What does fire recycle in the Okefenokee swamp?
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What recycles the substrat and detritus?
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What are two common plants found in the okefenokee swamp?
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where are the Golden Club and the Wter Lily found?
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What is Karst geology?
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A geologic formation of irregular limestone deposits with sinks, underground streams, and caverns describes what geology?
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What unique habitat is found in florida due to the rising and falling of the the ocean?
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Lake Wales Ridge is a result of what?
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Where is the most oxygen found in a stream running from a spring?
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What is found more at the edges of a stream running from a spring than the center or spring itself?
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What type of lake is Lake Annie?
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What lake we studied is a sinkhole lake?
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How are sinkhole lakes created?
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What is created when porous karst collapses
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What is the Study of Palynology?
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the study of pollen grains and spores to reconstruct past vegetation and climate is the study of what?
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What is an Oxbow lake?
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What type of lake is created when a river changes route leaving some water behind? (example: carter lake)
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What is a calderra lake?
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What type of lake is created when a dormant volcano fills with water?
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What is a littoral zone?
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What type of zone is it a fringing habitat where green plants and peryphyton live
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What is a secchi disk?
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What is the name for a plate 20cm and b&w for lakes, and white and 50 for oceans?
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What is Bathymetry/lake morphology?
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What is the measurement of depth of water in seas, lakes, etc?
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When is there more CDOM (Color dissolved Organic Matter) in Lake annie?
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What is there found more of in Lake Annie during wetter periods?
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What is a monomictic lake?
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What is a lake called when it completly mixes its temperature once per year
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What Is a cold monomictic lake
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what describes a lake that is stratified during the summer then mixes temp during the winter?
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What is the compensation depth?
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What is lowest depth where there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur? (Found by multiplying the Secchi disk transparacy by 3)
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(Found by multiplying the Secchi disk transparacy by 3)
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What is the Aphotic zone?
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In what zone is there little or no light?
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What is the photic zone?
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In what zone is there enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur?
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What is the pelagic zone?
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In what zone is there open water away from the edges?
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What is the profundal zone?
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What is the lowest level of the aphotic zone, where it is very cold, sunless, and gets all the leftover detritus?
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