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What states border the Great Lakes Basin?
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Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania
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What Canadian provinces border the Great Lakes?
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Quebec and Ontario
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What has over-fishing done to the Great Lakes?
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Irreversibly changed the ecosystem by reducing or eliminating some species
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What has building on the shores done to the environment?
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It has destroyed many estuaries and wetlands.
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When was the Great Lakes Basin created?
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During the glacial period 1,200 years ago
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How much of the world's fresh water do the Great Lakes contain?
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about 20%
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Which resource will be the most needed, oil or water, and why?
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Water is required to live. People can learn to live without oil.
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What's wrong with desalination?
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It is too pricy.
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What senators wanted to tap into the Great Lakes and why can't they.
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California and Arizona senators. Our agreement with Canada prevents us from shipping out water from the Great Lakes
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What city in the United States has the best tap water?
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Detroit
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What happened to the sturgeon fish?
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They almost went extinct due to over-fishing.
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What is special about the sturgeon fish?
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They never age or mature.
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What is a wetland?
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An area between land and water. Acts as a buffer.
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What has destruction of wetlands caused?
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The destruction of many species.
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What state announced that they no longer have any wetlands?
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Indiana
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What is an estuary?
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A wetland that has saltwater on one side and fresh water on the other. They are very special because of the few species that can live there.
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What is bad about sewer water?
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It's not treated and it is dumped into the Great Lakes.
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What happens with processing plants during a heavy rain?
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To prevent toilet water from backing up into people's homes, they dump untreated water into the Great Lakes.
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How do they regularly treat the water?
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They remove the chunks and blast it with chlorine.
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What's bad about agricultural runoff?
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Chemicals are 10 times worse. Pesticides, fertilizers and hormones.
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What are most farms these days? (industrial or small)
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High production industrial farms.
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What is bad about farm animals now that farmers want them to grow faster?
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They are given antibiotics and growth hormones.
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What happens when you take antibiotics and birth control pills?
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You urinate out the medicine.
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Chlorine fixes the antibiotic and birth control contaminated water.
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False, the chlorine does not do anything to that water and it goes through to our water supply.
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Why is it bad that birth control pills are in the water?
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As a result species are becoming more feminized.
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What are estrogen mimics?
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Chemicals that mimic estrogen and that are causing males to become more feminized.
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What Great Lake is the cleanest?
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Lake Superior
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What happened to whitefish?
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They have become so feminized, it is impossible to tell if they are male or female. You have to cut them open to check.
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Estrogen mimics are produced by what?
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Chlorinated water.
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Most of the country gets their water from what?
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Groundwater aquifers
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The Bread Basket of America uses the aquifer called what?
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The Ogallala aquifer.
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How long does it take groundwater to get down to aquifers?
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300 years
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Why are sinkholes appearing in Florida?
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their aquifer is depleted
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Why are non-native species bad?
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They didn't evolve here, they may eat native species.
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What is a niche?
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The job that a creature has.
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What is the first rule of Ecology?
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No two species can occupy the exact same niche in the same environment.
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What is ballast water?
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Water that is put in empty ships so that they are not too far above the water.
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What is the problem with ballast water?
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You can bring over non-native species.
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What is purple loosestrife?
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A weed that was brought over as an ornamental.
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What is bad about purple loosestrife?
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It is the #1 most noxious weed.
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What does purple loosestrife compete with?
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Cat tails.
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What are cat tails better at than purple loosestrife?
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filtering heavy metals out of water
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What is the basis of the aquatic food chain?
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Zooplankton and Phytoplankton
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What do the prefixes zoo- and phyto- mean?
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zoo- animal phyto-plant
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Why are phytoplankton important?
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they produce more oxygen then all of the rainforests and trees
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What are Diatoms?
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critters that live between two shells of silica great filters
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What are Daphnia?
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Zooplankton that can no longer be found in the Great lakes. filters
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What are zebra mussels?
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mussels that have eliminated 95% of all other mussel species
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Why are zebra mussels bad for Detroit?
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They stick to the water intakes, numbering in the millions
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What is a round goby?
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A ferocious bottom feeder that feeds all night long.
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What are lamprey eels?
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A marine creature that somehow has survived in fresh water.
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What is the Welland Canal?
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A canal that allows ships to go around Niagara Falls. Lamprey eels took it straight to the Great Lakes.
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What is a radula?
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The sharp tongue of the lamprey eel that claws at flesh and sucks blood and flesh.
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How old is the Earth?
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4.5 billion years old
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How old is the Sun?
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5 billion years old
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When did the oceans form, and how much less water is there now?
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Within a few million years. .2% has been lost
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What do microcomets give us?
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Water when they hit the Earth
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We as humans must have liquid water for how much of the year?
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Year-round
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What is the CHZ?
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The constantly habitable zone. The space around the Sun that's not too hot and not too cold
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Where is the CHZ?
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93 million miles + or - 9.3 million miles = borders
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Venus had oceans. What are they now?
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sulfuric acid
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How far away from the Sun is the Earth?
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93 million miles or 1 AU- astronomical unit
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How far away is Venus from the Sun
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.7 AU's
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The planets orbit in what shape?
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An ellipse.
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Where is Europa and why is it important?
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An ice-covered moon of Jupiter. May have liquid water inside.
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How much water is there on Earth.
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1,375,000,000 km cubed.
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How much of the world's water is saltwater?
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97.6%
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How much of the world's freshwater is available for us?
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Only .38% of freshwater and .009% of the world's water
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C,H,O,N,P,S are biggie elements required in all living things. What percent are they?
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96% of chemical makeup of creatures
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Selenium is required in ppm or ppb for what reason?
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It is critical for proper heart function.
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Where is the world's largest dam?
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China- it is located on the Yangtze River
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What is copper critical for in the body?
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Vision
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What is Zinc used for medically?
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to treat acne and viral infections
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What do hemagoblins do?
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Makes your blood red and carries oxygen to your organs.
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What happens to your hemaglobin count if you go to high altitudes?
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You cram in more hemaglobins and more oxygens are carried.
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How can a baby get a larger lung capacity?
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It has to be born in the mountains and has to live there.
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A women not native to Peru cannot have a baby there. Why?
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She cannot get enough air for the baby. She has to have lived there as a baby.
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People in the mountains of Peru grow taller in a linear pattern. True or False
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True
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What are radicals?
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They desperately want another electron and go around damaging cells to find it. Cause of aging
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What are 99% of all carbons in the world?
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Carbon 12
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What is carbon 13?
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An isotope.
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What is C6H12O6?
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Glucose, Fructose, or Galactose. Depends on arrangement.
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Why does a steam burn hurt more than a regular burn?
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When it hits your arm it turns into water. The heat of vaporization is released and that burns your arm even more.
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What is a watershed?
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An area where all the precipitation flows into a single stream or river.
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What watershed does shelby township belong to?
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The Clinton River Watershed.
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What is a heterotroph?
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Any organism that can't derive energy from photosynthesis.
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What are the three definitions of organic?
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1.anything that is, was, or came from something alive 2.carbon 3.carbon/carbon bonds
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What is the formula for cellular respiration?
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C6H12O6+ADP+P-->CO2+H2O +ATP
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What do humans use for energy?
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Not food directly but ATP.
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What is ADP?
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Adenosine Diphosphate.
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What is ATP?
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Adenosine Triphosphate.
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What are organelles?
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Parts inside of cells.
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What is a mitochondria?
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The part of a cell where cellular respiration takes place.
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What is an autotroph?
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An organism that makes food from simple inorganic molecules. (the Sun)
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A breeze swirls the water in a lake. What is this called?
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A turnover.
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What are xylems?
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Tubes in plants which carry water.
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