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32 Cards in this Set
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Why are male leopard Frogs growing eggs?
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Small doses of Atrazine
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Area around a river that periodically floods?
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Flood plain
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Define weather
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State of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
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Why are Beluga whales getting cancer?
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Chemical cocktails
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What happens to temperature as you rise up in the atmosphere?
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It usually gets colder
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At what temperature do objects emit radiation?
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Any temperature above absolute zero
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The Sun sets on the North Pole.
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September 22nd
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Sun rises at Northpole?
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March 22nd
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Summer Solstice
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June 21st
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Why is the amount of water in the soil important?
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Water holds the soil together
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Define wavelength
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Distance between two peaks of a wave
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Define Greenhouse Gas
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Let sunlight in, traps Earth’s radiation, so Earth heats up.
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Define albedo
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How much of the suns energy is being reflected by the surface.
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Everywhere has 12 hours of daylight
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sep 22nd and march 22nd
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Define climate
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expected patterns weather in a given time and place
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What happens to pressure as you rise up in atmosphere?
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Always goes down
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What are the three ways energy is transferred?
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Convection, Conductoin, radiation
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What causes the seasons on Earth?
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Earth's tilt
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Why lower sperm quality in men in the Midwest
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Combination of farm chemicals
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What is meagner using to clean up mercury?
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plants
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The Sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer.
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Summer Solstice June 21st
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What is the most powerful greenhouse gas?
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Water vapor
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Define angle of repose.
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Maximum angle you can form with sediments
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What is left when a meander is cut off?
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Ox bow lake
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The two primary gasses of the atmosphere
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nitrogen, oxygen
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The six elements of the atmosphere that constantly change
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pressure, temperature, humidity, precipitation type and amount, cloud type and amount, wind speed and direction.
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What are the 2 motions of the Earth?
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Rotation about its axis, and revolution around the sun
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What are day lengths doing between Christmas and new years eve.
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Getting longer.
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What does Robert Michard believe is causing cancer in Belugas?
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chemical cocktails
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What is Sylvan Deguise testing that non one has tested before
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combinations of chemicals
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What is likely causing the destructive outbreaks of crown of thorn on the Great barrier reef?
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Nitrogen
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Where does Tierney thys believe the mola mola are picking up toxins?
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Closer to the shore
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