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80 Cards in this Set
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Biotic |
Alive |
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Abiotic |
Never alive but part of community |
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Curvilinear |
Scattered graph |
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Genes |
sequence of DNA |
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Homo |
same |
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hetero |
different |
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Dominant Gene |
will cover up effect of another gene. Capitol letters used |
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Recessive Gene |
effect will be covered up by a dominant gene. Small letters used |
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Phenotype |
how it appears |
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Genotype |
how the genes really are |
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Sympatric species |
species occupy the same area. May interbreed or produce hybrids |
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Allopatric species |
species are separated by location or time of activity and are precluded from potential interbreeding |
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sub species |
groups apart of one species |
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ecotypes |
different subgroups |
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species |
organisms of the same kind that are able to breed in nature and produce offspring |
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rassenkreis |
race circle |
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average |
numerical midpoint |
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median |
midpoint in distrubution |
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mode |
most |
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isotherms |
same temperature |
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prevailing westerly winds |
winds come from the west |
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rainshadow |
lack of rain/snow. located on east side of mountains |
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el nino |
warm weather |
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la nina |
cold weather |
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water cycle |
process of water |
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evaporation |
movement from liquid to vapor |
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infiltration |
movement into soil and roots of plants |
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transpiration |
loss of water from plants |
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covalent bonds |
shared pair of of electrons. strong |
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hydrogen bonds |
bases on charge affinities. weak, opposites attract. |
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viscosity |
ability to flow |
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low viscosity |
pours better |
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high viscosity |
pours worse |
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cat ions |
plus charge |
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anions |
negative charge |
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ion |
an electrically charged atom/molecule |
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Epilimnion |
warm, low density, surface water |
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thermocline |
zone of rapid temperature change, middle |
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hypolimnion |
cold, high density, deep waters |
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diffusion |
movement from high to lower concentration |
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estuary |
fresh and salt water combined
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oxbow lakes |
old pathways of the river old slower flowing streams |
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litteral |
shallow, near edge |
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limnetic |
surface water |
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compensation |
deep water that has light |
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profundal |
deep water that doesn't have light |
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benthic |
bottom layer of water |
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photosynthesis |
production of biomass |
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respiration |
break down of food |
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phytoplankton |
limnetic primary producers |
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diatoms |
fantastic array of shapes and sizes |
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zooplankton |
grazer, feed on phytoplankton |
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eutrophic lakes |
nutrient rick, much growth, not clear |
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oligotrophic |
lesser amount of nutrients, more clear |
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dystrophic |
much organic matter, brown color |
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Gougers |
Feed on dead wood |
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Grazers |
Feed on green algae |
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Collecters |
feed on water nutrients |
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shredders |
feed on organic pieces of matter (leaves) |
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Detritus |
dead organic matter (leaves) |
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CPOM |
coarse particulate organic matter (leaves) |
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FPOM |
fine particulate organic matter (broken leaves) |
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predators |
feed on grazers, etc |
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pelagic |
open water |
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neritic |
overlies continental shelf |
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oceanic |
open ocean |
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benthic |
bottom |
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cocas |
dot |
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rod |
line |
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spiralus |
spiral |
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paramecium |
feeds on particulates |
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didinium |
swims by means of its cilia. captures and eats paramecium |
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suctoria |
capture food organisms at end of the tentacles and then sucks their nutrient contents through their straw |
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coccolithophores |
most important of the nanoplankton |
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Krill |
herbivorous zooplankton- most abundant, fed on by whales and penguins |
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heterotrophs |
feed on other organisms |
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autotrophs |
feed on self using photosynthesis |
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deep sea vents |
primary producers are chemosynthetic bacteria |
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coral reef |
among the most productive systems |
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upwelling |
cold water comes to surface due to winds |
