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23 Cards in this Set
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function of the skeleton
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framework for muscles and organs
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skull
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Protects the brain, eyes, ears, and nose
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feet
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26 bones - tarsals, metatarsals, phanlanges
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spine
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33 linked bones (vertebrate) that get larger as they go down
Helps to kep you upright tunnel runs down middle |
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legs
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connected to pelvis
upper leg - femur kneecap - patella lower leg - tibia-shinebone, fibula |
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rib cage
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12 pairs of ribs
back linked to vertebrae front linked to sternum protects heart, lung, and other organs |
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arms and hands
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clavicle and shoulder blade
upper arm (humerus) lower arm (radius,ulna-longer 27 bones in wrist and hands |
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pelvis
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made of 5 fused vertebrae and hip bones
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The largest area of rainforest in the world is found in what continent?
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South America
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The largest area of rainforest in the world is found in what country?
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Brazil
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Tropical rainforest are located between the tropic of ___________ and the Tropic of __________.
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Cancer and Capricorn
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The very fallest tress in a rainforest are called understories or emergents
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emergents
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Give three reasons why rainforest are important to the world?
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Rainforest supply oxygen, medicine and food.
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Does it ever freeze in a tropical rainforest?
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No, it never freezes in the rainforest. The average temperature is 77 degrees.
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The understory, the area between the leaves and the grround is usually shady and cool or bright and hot?
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The understory is shady and cool.
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How many species of unsects live in rainforest? Millions or hundreds
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Millions of insects live in rainforest.
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Name the four layers of the rainforest.
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The four layers of the rainforest are forest floor, understory, canopy, and emergent.
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Name two animals that live on the forest floor?
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insects, frogs, anteaters, panther
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Name two animals that live in the understory?
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snakes, panther
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Name two animals that live in the canopy?
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Many kinds of birds, monkeys, flying squirrels
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Name two animals that live in the emergent layer?
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butterflies and many kinds of birds
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Name the longest river in South America.
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The longest river is the Amazon River.
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Name some very famous mountains in South America?
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The Andes Mountains are located in South America.
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