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60 Cards in this Set
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Ecology
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The study of organisms and their household environment
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Organismal Ecology
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The study of Specific organisms
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Population Ecology
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how populations interact with there environment
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Community Ecology
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How a community interacts with ther environment
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Ecosystem Ecology
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The study of the ecosystem such as sun rocks soil
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Landscape Ecology
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Compairing neighborintg environment and how they interact
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Charles Rober Darwin
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Published ont eh origin of species
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John Muir
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Father of americas nattural parks walked from Wisconson to SanFransisco. Wandered the seiras for 46 years
Strated siera club, was first president |
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John Muir Day
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April 28
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John Muir Publications
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The study of My boyhood and youth, a thousand mile walk to the gulf, my first summer in the sierra, the mountains of califormia, our national parks, the yosemity, etc.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Hypocyte, said everybody needs to see the grand cannyon, with John Muir
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Jacques Cousteau
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Starte conservation for the ocean
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Atmosphere
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all the gases including water vaper
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How much nitrogen in the atmosphere
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78%
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How much Oxygen in the atmosphere
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21%
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How much Argon in the atmosphere
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.9%
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How much carbon dioxid in the atmosphere
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.03%
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Other gasses in the atmsophere
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Particulate, water vapor, carbon monoxide, neon, helium, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrogen, and ammonia.
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Hydrosphere
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any kind of water, oceans, lakes, etc.
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Lithosphere
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the rock sphere, earths crust, and oceans floor
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Bioshpere
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Everywhere, were there is life.
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Hydrologic Cycle
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Hydrogen and oxygen in water move therough the atmosphere, land, oceasns and organsims therough condenstation and evaporations.
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Carbon Cycle
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The cycle of carbon through the atmoshpere, land oceans and organisms through photosyntheseis and cellular respiration.
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Nitrogen Cycle
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Nitrogen moving throught hte atmosphere, etc.
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Phosphorus Cycle
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The moving of phospherus in ATP etc.
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Temperature
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measure of hotness and coldness`
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pressure
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measure of force per unit area
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humidity
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moisture or water in the air
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precipitation
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what comes out of the atmosphere
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wind
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speed and direction
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ozone layer
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sheilds the earth from ultra violet rays
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blue sky
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THE blue waves bounce around in the atmosphere
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sunsets and sunriseds
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red waves bounce in the atmosphere
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rainbows
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sunlight reflected therougth raindrops
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earth rotation
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spining on its axis
23.5 degreesaxis' spining east |
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Revolutions
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drifteing to the east, eliptical spinning
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wind
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horizontal movement
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currents
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vertical movement
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0 degrees or the equator
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warm air movements rise, tropics
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30 north and south latitude
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cool dry air masses that desend and form deserts
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60 north and south latitude
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warm wet air masses that rise temperate zones
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90 north and south latitude or the poles
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cool air masses that drop frozen deserts
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Doldrums
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light winds or calm from the rotation
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Tradwinds
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about 30 north and southe
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westerlies
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60 north and south
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Easterlies
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90 moving from the east and the west
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California current
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cold, coming from the north
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alaskan current
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in warm and out cold
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labrador current
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travels between north america and greenland is cold
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gulf stream
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warm north along the south eastern US and heads east
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Florida current
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Warm travels west along the caribean
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Eauatorial currents and countercurrents
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warm, travel east and west along the equator
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Humboldt current
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cod travels along the west coast of south america
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brazil current
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warm, travels south along the east coast of south america
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east and west wind drift
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cold travel east and west along the coast of antartica
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oligotrophic
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geologically young, deep, nutrient poor, low in productivity lakes
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Eutrophic
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geologically old, shallow nutrient rich, high productivity
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littoral
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shallow, sunlit water from the shoreling to the depth where rooted plants quit growing
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Limnetic
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Sunlit waters beyond the littoral zone and down to the end of light penetration
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Profundal zone
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deep open water below the depth of light penetration
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