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47 Cards in this Set
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What is the theroy of natural selection?
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A theroy that supports the idea that organisms withtray are more likely to survive
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What is an alien spiecies?
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Introduced speicies to an enviernment that destroy native species.\
Example: Killer Bees |
Killer Bees
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What is Divercity?
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Differences among living things
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Kate: Red tie
Brad: Black tie |
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What is Divercity?
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Differences among living things
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Kate: Red tie
Brad: Black tie |
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What is global warming?
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Burning fossil fuels releases CO2 which can get trapped in heat.
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Are fossil fuels good or bad for the enviernment when burned?
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BAD!!!
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Whats a niche?
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A role an organism plays in its enviorntment.
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What are decomposers?
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Organisms that dreak down dead things
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What are producers?
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Organisms that make their own food.
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What is mutualism?
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An association between organisms of two different species in which each member benefits.
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What is population?
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A group of organisms that are the same spiecies and live in the same place at the same time.
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What is global warming?
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Burning fossil fuels releases CO2 which can get trapped in heat.
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What is a biotic factor?
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Living things or once living things in an enviornment.
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Bird/Dinosour
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What is an abiotic fator?
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a nonliving organism
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What is a parasite/host relationship?
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When a host needs a parasite to
Example: tick on a dog |
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During photosynthesis plants take in ________ and give off _____.
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1. Carbon Dioxcide
2. Oxygen |
Cigarette
Breathe |
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What is the nonrenewable resource that comes from the remains of plants and animals that lived 100 to 400 million years ago?
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Coal
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Fire
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What is the name of the cycle that includes evaperation, concideration, and precipitation?
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Water
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What is a biosphere?
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Small portions of the earth that organisms occupy
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What is a food chain?
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A model that shows transfer of energy in just a few steps.
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What is a food web?
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A model that shoes possible food relationships in a comunity.
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What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
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A food chain shows in just a few steps but a food web shows all steps.
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What is a nonrenewable resource?
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Resource that takes years to make.
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What happens to other populations within a community when other species in that same comunity is changed?
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They all change
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Which takes longer primary succession or secondary sucsession?
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primary sucession
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Describe the coniferous forest? What kind of trees live there?
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very cold, heavy snow.
Spruce trees Evergreens |
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Describe the tropical rain forest.
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Hot and humid,
Its speical because even though its hot and humid its wet. |
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Describe the conditions of the tundra.
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Freezing, little sunlight, dry
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What is a biome?
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geographic areas on earth that share simular climate.
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What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
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nigtrogen
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List the 7 levels of Classification.
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Kingdom
Phylum Class Order Family Genus - Capitalized Species- Lowercase |
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WHat dingdom do trees belong to?
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Plant
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That is the species name of Felis Catus?
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Catus
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What is the genus name of Felis Catus?
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Felis
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How do Scientists classify organisms?
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simularities
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Describe the muscles of the frog. Why are they that way?
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very strong
because they can jump high |
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Which of the following is not an adaption tof the crayfish? Chelipeds, swimmersets, eytoskeleton, or antennules?
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eytoskeleton
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What are the three things scientists use to prove the theory of evolution?
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Fossil record. radio active dating, embriology
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What is the fossil record?
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shows as earth aged organisms grow more complex
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What is an adaptation?
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any variation that makes an organism best suited for enviornment
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What is variety?
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different trait between speicies
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What is evolution?
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change in pereditary features over time
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How are elements assigned a symbol?
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By 1st letter of scientific name.
By any 2 letters of their scientific name By the latin name |
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What is the solute?
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whats being dosolved in a solution
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What is the solvent?
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Whats doing the disolving into a solution
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What does it mean when a solution is saturated?
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cant hold anymore solute
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How are mixtures seperated?
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Physicaly
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