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20 Cards in this Set
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How many biomes are there in Canada?
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4
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Which biome do we live in?
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Taiga
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What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
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Ecosystems that are found anywhere on earth that is not covered be water.
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What trees are dominate in the taiga?
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Conifers
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What is permafrost?
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Permanetly frozen soil
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What is muskeg?
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Soil above permafrost that is swampy/ boggy in summer.
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What is taxinomy?
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Classification of living things
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What is taxification?
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Study of classification
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what are the current classification: Co Kingdom
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Archaea bacteria
plantae,plants drotista fungi,fungus animalia,animals |
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What is Kingdom Protista?
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Unicellular/multicellular
obtain food through: photosynthesis, inestion, and decomposition |
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What is Kingdom Fungi?
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Decomposers
includes mushrooms, mould and yeast. |
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What is kingdom plantae?
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Organisms that photosynthesize
specialized cells to carry out life functions. mosses, ferns, coniferous trees flowering cells. |
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What is kingdom animalia?
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Ingest food, mobile (able to move on their own)
complete, specilaized cells |
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What are the levels of classification?
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domain, kingdom, phylon, class, order, family, genus, species.
Danish King Phillip Came Over For Green Spinach |
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Whats a dichotomous key?
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Multi-step identification keys, 2 choices @ each step, moves from general to more specific.
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What are mutagenic Agents?
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Any substance, energy, or condition that caause a change in own. cosmic rays, xrays, uv rays.
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What was larmarks theory?
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First theory of evolution- aquired characteristics.
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What was Darwins theory?
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Theory of natural selection.
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Speciation
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Creation of a new species
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Allopatric Speciation
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geographic, isolation
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