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Chin-strap Penguin lay their eggs right on the ice? T/F
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False, No Bird would
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Snow Petrel nest less than 100 kilometers inland. T/F
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False
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South Polar Skuas prey on Snow Petrels. T/F
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True
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Lives farther south than any other predator.
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South Polar Skua
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Arrive in the southern fall to begin breeding
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Emperor Penguin
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North Pole is a frozen Sea T/F
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True
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Eider ducks feed on _____
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Mussels
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Artic Hares are attracted to openings created by Muskoxen in the ice in the artic.
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True
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____Are major victims of global warming
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Polar Bears
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Polar bears have been seen swimming more than 60 miles from shoes.
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True- GW is a bitch for those guys.
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Polar bears feed heavily on dead fish washed up on a beach. T/F
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False, they just kinda die.
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Some penguin mothers without chicks compete for orphaned chicks.
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True- They fucking want them so bad they will kill the chick in the fighting process.
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Grass land covers more land than 1/5 of the earth's surface. T/F
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False- it is 1/4
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Great Plains shows the migration of as many as 2 million Bactrian Camels is show. T/F
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False, It was Mongolian Gazelle.
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Fire causes damage to the bases of grass plants. T/f
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False bitch
ts part of the process of succession, and actually allows grasslands to exist. Grows from protected plant- almost industructible. Grass has advantage in fire scapes. |
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Grass feed more wildlife than any other terrestrial plant. t/f
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TRUE
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Red-Billed Queleas feed on ____
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Grass- Most numerous birds on earth
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Snow Geese winter _____________
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Migrate to the Gulf of Mexico
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Snow Geese Nest in the Arctic t/f
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TRUE- Nest during the summer in Arctic Tundra.
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Snow Geese Must Incubate their eggs for _____
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3 weeks
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Caribou travel as much as 2000 miles in a single summer t/f
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True
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Wolves actually do not feed on Caribou and rather they feed mostly on lemmings t/f
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False- they eat them
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There were once 60 million Bison on the Great Plains
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True= now about 1000 after hunting and loss of habitat.
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We see ____ fighting over territories on the Tibetan Plateau
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Wild ASS
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Pikas are the most numerous grazers on teh Tibetan Plateau t/f
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True
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African elephants rely on smell to find water.
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False, Matriarch's memory.
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In the movie the young African elephant is killed by_____
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Lions
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Each Male Emperor Penguins incubates 3-5 eggs throughout the Winter.
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False- Just one
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Nearly ____ of all polar bear cubs die the first year.
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Half
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Vytorin
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ezetimibe/simvastatin
ee-ZET-ah-mybe |
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Tundra is treeless as there is not enough water for trees. t/f
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False- THERE IS not enough sunlight, water is not a reason for their scarcity.
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Taiga contains ____ of all trees on Earth.
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1/3
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Amur Leopard may scavenge on deer carcasses.t/f
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False
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Tropical forest covers ___ of the planets surface.
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20% of it:
Have 50% of all life. |
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Canopy of a tropical forest is particularly rich in life forms. t/f
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True
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Off the Cape of S. Africa Great WHites gather to feed on breeding___
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Seals- migrate thousands of miles to eat them.
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Cape hunting dogs chase ____into a shallow lake and wait for it to come out.
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Impalla
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_____is the only source of Water for Bactrian Camels. (In the Arctic Desert they inhabit)
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SNOW- Mongolian deserts have their snow sublime straight to water vapor.
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Bactrian Camels breed in the SUmmer. t/f
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False
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Atacama in SA is the largest Desert in the world.
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False= Sahara is.
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In Africa___ uses its large ear to Radiate Heat (In the Desert).
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Fennec Foxes
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Atacama Desert of ____ is the driest on the Planet
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Chile.
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Saguaro Catus stems can store up to ___ of water.
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5 tons- In Arizona Deserts
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Gilia Woodpeckers nesting in stems of Desert Sycamores. t/f
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TRue
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Nubian Ibex that lose in fights with rival males may die t/f
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True
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Lack of food is what mostly kills animals in the Desert.
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True- Not water or heat
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Lions in deserts live in larger prides than their savannas.
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False- Thats basic ecology based on primary productivity of the area.
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Single Oryx can feed a desert pride of lions for a week.
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True
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Young Locusts follow the smell of _______
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Sprouting grass= eggs on the ground for 20 years begin to hatch.
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___of all trees are in the Taiga.
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1/3
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___is the very essence of wilderness.
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Lynx
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Wolverines are adapted to live in Taiga year round. t/f
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True
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The large body size of the Wolverine helps them broaden the menu. (No really they like honey badger)
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True
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Conifers reach their greatest potential in New Zealand. t/f
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False- Pacific NA- Conifers are evergreen-non temperate trees
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Confiers only grow ten times faster in the Pacific Northwest than in the Taiga. t/f
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True
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There is more living matter in a forest of giant conifers than in any rain-forest t/f
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True
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General SHerman is a Giant ____Tree
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Sequoia
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Seeds of Araucaria trees are eaten by ____.
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Parakeets
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Predator on the world's smallest deer is the ___
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Pudu
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We see ____ nestling drop to the ground from their tree hold nest in Russia.
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Mandarin Duck
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Adult Cicadas are eaten by mammals. t/f
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True- virtually offer themselves because they have no defense. Feed and fertilize the forests.
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The Teak forest of India are home to _______.
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Amur Leopard -rarest cat in the world only 40 left in wild
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World's smallest primate feeds on ______
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Feed on Moths and Barbabs Nectar (MOSTLY MOTHS)
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Endosymbiosis
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this is the idea that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once descendants of free living prokaryotes that were engulfed and then engaged in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship in which the mitochondria/chloroplasts helped create energy for the cell and gained safety from within the host cell in return.
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Period of 1st Vascular plants
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Silurian
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Who did the the experiment to show that meat didn't produce maggots by spontaneous generation with covered vs. Uncovered vials.
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Francesco Redi
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Multicellularity can arise form :
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1. Incomplete cell division (explains same cell structure)
2. Coloniality (grouping of single celled as a colony) |
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Mitochondria
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- two membranes- own DNA- sits where energy in simple sugars is converted to ATP- a useable form of energy for cells.Have 2 membranes and are sites of respiration.
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Chloroplast
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- Consists of stacks or folds of an inner membrane loaded with pigment molecules. Have 2 membranes and are not ONLY found in kingdom Plantae
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Who boils water in a vial with a bent neck and only allowed bacteria to grow in the necks of the flasks but could not reach the sterile water.
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Louis Pasteur
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Earth is how old?
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4.6 billion years old.
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Pleistocene Epoch ended ____years ago
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8000
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_____ is the first period of the Cenozoic.
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Tertiary
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First hominids appeared at the end of the_______ Period
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Tertiary
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First Dinosaurs appeared during the
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Triassic
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DNA in Eukaryotes is complexed with _____
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Proteins
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Bony fish evolved in _____Period of the ______
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Ordovician, Palezoic
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Oparin converted elemental nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen to ________.
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Amino Acids
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Oparin did experiments in ________.
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Chemical Evolution-
published a monograph in which he argued that the complex molecules of life such as amino acids could be formed by chemical evolution. Simple molecules could have formed from these raw materials and collected in a “soup”. |
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Shrew Moles are found in:
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Old Growth forests
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Old Growth evolved with ____ from mountains.
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Orographic Effect
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Stanley Miller combines methane and ________ in water, in his experiment, to make simple amino acids.
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Ammonia
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The ________ era/ period is broken down into Epochs. (Precambrian, Paleozoic,and Mesozoic were just broken down into periods)
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Cenozoic era/ Quaternary period
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Larry Harris is from:
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UF
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New World/ Old World Monkeys isolated since _____Epoch
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Era: Then Period: Then Epoch
Eocene Epoch |
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Hombills found in:
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Old Tropics
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White-Headed Woodpeckers are:
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not highly adaptive species, only found in Old Growth of Pac. NW.
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Zoo-geographic
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evolutionary basis-concerned with the geographic distribution of animal species and their attributes.
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US imports $330 million of logs taken
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from Indonesia
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Buttresses
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extensions of trunks in shallow soil for support structurally.
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Badgers
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prey on ground squirrels
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Sloths
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are true arboreal foliovores
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Polar bears main prey is
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Seals
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Succession:
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- the process by which after a disturbance new species move in and the ecosystem goes through stages of development in which its structure and function change to a the original climax community. Proceeds in the absence of any disturbance.
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Dust Bowl
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a result of drought and poor farming
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Old/New World Monkeys differ in ____
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Noses
Old world New WOrld |
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Grasslands in Africa are rich in
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rich in large grazing herbivore species
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Moloch resembles
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Horned lizards
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Sand Grouse-
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- birds of Old World that fly long distances to soak up water in belly feathers
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Maned wolf is from:
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from South America
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Convergent evolution-
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similar environments can lead to similar species in terms of physiological traits. (Ichthyosaurus resembles sharks)
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Platyrrhini are:
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New WOrld Monkeys
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Sonoma and Red Tree Voles
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South of Columbus River
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Steppe in old SOviet Union plowed cotton and irrigated water from _____, leading to its decreasing water levels and increasing salinity/dissication
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ARAL SEA
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Many bird species that nest in Temperate forests are :
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Neotropical Migrants
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Main trees in Temperate forests of Australia are
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Evergreen conifers
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Great Sandy Desert
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Australia
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Goannas
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Giant lizards that roamed Australia.
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Yahner is Eastern Deciduous forests that fall under ____categories
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4
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50 years up to 2002 Indonesia lost ___% of its forest cover
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40%
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Marmosets occur in :
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South America
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Spontaneous Generation
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- Before 1864 people believed that animals came from nothing. Mice and rats came from grain. With this theory we would expect all vials to produce maggots, however only uncovered vials did so (Francesco Redi).
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Analogous structures
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are structures with similar functions but different embryological origins.
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Homologous Structures
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structures with similar origins but not necessarily similar functions.
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Sexual selection works two ways
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o female choice
o male to male competition |
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Natural selection
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competition between species and scarce sources of energy choses the best members of a species to survive and breed.
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Marmosets/Tamarins occur in
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South America
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____ _____ are causing widespread destruction of habitat in Tundra biome due to over population.
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Snow Geese
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Taiga does NOT occur in _______ and ____ and _____
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South America but it does in Canada and Russia
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There are many ______ _____ in Taiga Summers.
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Biting INsects
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Top predator in Siberian Taiga
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Siberian Tiger- No shit
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Gobi Desert is fucking____
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Cold
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___Species of conifers grow to heights in excess of 200 ft in Old Growth Forests
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10
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_____are insectivores with high metabolic rates in Eastern Deciduous Forests of N. Am
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Shrews
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____are sea ducks of high arctic that dive and feed on invertebrates
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Eiders
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Biomes are products of _____ and ______
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Latitude and Elevation
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Rufous Sided Towhee is a species declining due to protection of forests from ______and the process of ______.
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FIres,Succesion
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Myrmecopahgous mammals are those that eat chiefly
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ants and termites
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In Australia, the one humped camel population is
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100,000
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Harris found that 12 % of vertebrates in Old Growth are_______
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Reptiles and amphibians
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Seasonality is and important feature to this biome.
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Temperate forest
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Main tree in Old Growth forests is NOT the_____
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Giant Sequoia
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Stomata are
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is a pore, found in the leaf and stem epidermis that is used for gas exchange.
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____ _____ Wrote about communities of lizards around the world.
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Eric Pianka
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Crossbills from Taiga feed exclusively on _____ and have ____flights.
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Pine Seeds, Irruptive
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Numbats in Australia Feed on
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Termites
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There are ___ categories of N. America Grasslands
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3- High, Medium, Low grass
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____protects and buffers lakes from acid rain.
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Liming
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Colubus Monkeys are
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Arboreal foliovores
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Desert biomes occur ___degrees N/S of the Equator.
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30 degrees N/S
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Tundra's annual rainfall is
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less than 25 cm a year.
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____toed woodpecker is in Taiga Biome.
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3
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Dark feathers help to ____ ____ for game birds of the Taiga.
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Absorb sunlight.
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Arabian Oryx have
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Pale fur to reflect the sun
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Koalas are
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arboreal foliovores
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Deserts do not have high _____but lack _____.
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Temperatures, but lack Rainfall
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Howler Monkeys of New World are _____ _______
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arboreal foliovores.
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Conifers are pyramid shaped trees so they can shed_____.
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Snow
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Prehensile tails are typical of larger____ ____ _____
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New WOrld Monkeys
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Bower Birds are from ______
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Australia
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_____ _____ in 1870 had a major effect on land use Patterns in the Great Plains.
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Barbed wire
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Desert scrub & thorn forest- are sub biomes in
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2 Sub biomes in Western Mexico
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Catarrhini
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Old World Monkeys
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Grasslands in S. America have the fewest species of large_____ _______.
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Grazing herbivores.
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Australian tropics
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Old monkeys
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Switchgrass is what category of grass
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Midgrass
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African Pgymy elephant
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similar to capybara
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Flinthills of Kansas support
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Tall grass
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Thorny devil is from
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Australia
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Wettest spot on the Earth is
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Tropical FOrest on an island.
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Ruffed Grouse Society reported that woodcocks were declining due to
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Forest maturation throughout Eastern Deciduous Forest
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Notofagus if a common tree genus in
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Temperate forests of SOuth AMerica
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Fynbos occurs in
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South Africa
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Most woodpeckers have ____toes
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4 (zygodactyl feet)
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Calvin Cycle-
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the basic form of Photosynthesis where sunlight energy is transformed into chemical energy as glucose.
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Secondary succession
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occurs in temperate forests following a fire or some other form of natural deforestation where new development is different than the original
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Mountain beaver
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represents world's most primitive living rodent
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Gama grass
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tall grass species
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Arabian Oryx was reintroduced into
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Reintroduced to Oman
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Calvin Cycle-
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the basic form of Photosynthesis where sunlight energy is transformed into chemical energy as glucose.
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Secondary succession
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occurs in temperate forests following a fire or some other form of natural deforestation where new development is different than the original
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Mountain beaver
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represents world's most primitive living rodent
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Gama grass
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tall grass species
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Arabian Oryx was reintroduced into
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Reintroduced to Oman
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Acid rain affects all plants by changing acidity of the soil, but impacts _________biome more directly.
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Temperate forest
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Ecological pyramids reflect the amount of______ _____ in a ecosystem based on trophic levels.
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Biomass amounts
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Ecological efficiencies are usually about
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10%
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Plants take up water and then move it to the atmosphere by
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Transpiration
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Denitrificaiton occurs only when _____ is not available
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O2
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Ammonia gas is chem formula
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NH3
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Top predator in food chain is
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Tertiary consumer
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Denitrificaiton = conversion of
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NO2 to N2
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Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow is a very ______ for its habitat.
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Specialized
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Tropics harbor more species with narrower
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niches
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Carbon stored as FF, Co2 and in vegetation. T/f
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True
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Amino acids back to NH3 is
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Amomonification
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Ecological pyramids that display trophic levels biomass were devised by
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Charles Elton
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Northern Mockingbirds were intorduced to
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Hawaiian Islands
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Conversion of N2 to NH3 is a ____reaction
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Endergonic (not exergonic)
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Autotrophs
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Primary producers that use a source of energy and transform it into useful energy- Self Feeders
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Rhizobium is a microorganism that
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is found in the nodules in association with legume plants- are responsible for nitrogen fixation.
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Everglade kite eat
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apple snails
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Photosynthesis
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is the process by which plants take water and CO2 and sunlight to store as chemical energy- form of carbon fixation
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Water moves through soil to groundwater by process of
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percolation
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Lightning can ______N2
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Fix
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Most gaseous Nitrogen in
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Atmosphere
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Ecological niche based on any
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Temp, Moisture, soil type
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CO2 is a GHG most affected by
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humans
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Through evolution, when a species becomes increasingly adapted to a narrow niche they become more
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Rare
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Animals are never
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primary producers
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Symbiotic relation between plant and Rhizobium is
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Mutalistic
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Plants take up inorganic nitrates and convert them to organic compounds through a process called
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assimilation
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Lower part of atmosphere is the
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Troposphere
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Temperate species are not more ecologically _______ than tropical counterparts
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specialized
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Ammonium ions turn to Nitrates during the
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Nitrification process
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Energy in biological systems are transmitted through _____
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ATP
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Darwin noted no native _____in Australian Grasslands
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Rabbits
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Bat wings are______ to penguin flippers
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analogous
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Darwin based theory partly on observation of
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Farm animals
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Darwin used evidence from __________ fossils to image the concept of Centers of Origin (the idea that most species have a common origin)
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Giant Armadillo
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Forelimb of tetrapods, radius is paired with
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Ulna
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Structures in different species such as wings of insects and bats are _____because they have different origins but similar functions
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analogous
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Darwin argued that individuals with more offspring were
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naturally selected.
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____Embryonic tissue layers
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3- Ectoderm, Endoderm, Mesoderm
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____ _____ _____ have colored air sacs as a sexually selected trait
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Male Sage Grouse
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Sea Lamprey is not a
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Tetrapod
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Inheritance of acquired traits =
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Lamarck
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Darwin found Fossils of Marine invertebrates at high elevations in the Andes, suggesting that_______
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that the earth changed over time.
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Darwin's theory of natural selection assumes individuals
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Vary
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Origin of species was published in
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1859
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Theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, individuals transformed following
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Perceived environmental stress
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Plumage dichromatism is an example of a ___________ in passerine birds
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Sexually selected trait
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Mid 19th century people believed that species were
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Immutable
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Erectile feathers on head are a sexually selected trait in
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Prairie chickens
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Upper bone in forelimbs of tetrapods
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Humerus
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Darwin saw no large herbivorous mammals on
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oceanic islands
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Caribou are a species of deer in which both males and females have
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Antlers
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Chagas disease is caused by a
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protist
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Gastrula
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Developmental stage during which embryonic genes turn on
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_______ is used as an anti-cancer agent
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Paclitaxel
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Native birds in Hawaii were infected with _______ transmitted by Mosquitoes
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Malaria
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Vascular plants evolved during the ______ _____
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Paleozoic age
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Fertilization
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zygote forms (single cell)
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All Chordata share
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4 characteristics
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Echinodermata
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phylum of Deuterostomes
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Protostomes have a _____cleavage
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spiral
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Archenteron forms from
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blastocoelum
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Zygote has 2 sets of
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Chromosomes
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Tetrahymena is a genus in Kingdom Protista, often used in
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toxicology studies because it mitochondria are so similar to ours
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Deuterostomes have ______cleavage
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Radial
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All Chordate characteristics are NOT seen throughout the lives of the
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Individual
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Bacteria play important role in
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Nitrogen cycle (and decomposition)
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_____ is a deadly poison produce by some mushrooms
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Amanitin
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______ characteristic of chordates
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Pharygeal gills
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There are ___ types of secondary cavities seen in animalia
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2
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The ____ ____ tree apparently produces paclitaxel
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Pacific Yew
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Most toxic modes of chemical often affect the______ in cells
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Mitochondria
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______ was a fungicide used widely in FL in the 1980-90s
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Benlate
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Class )_______has the greatest number of vertebrate species.
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Osteichthyes
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Intracellular digestion is a characteristic of
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Sponges
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Plathelminthes is AKA
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Flatworm
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Cells in morula (Do or do not) migrate and arrange themselves to form a hollow ball of cells
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DO
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Choanocytes are characteristic of
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Sponges
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Dorsal hollow nerve cord is in
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Chordates
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Malaria is caused by a
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Protist
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Pseudocoelom is typical of
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nematodes
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Monera is the kingdom of
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prokaryotic cells that tend to be unicellular- AKA bacteria
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Dinoflagellates are ____ that form____ ____
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Protists, Red Tide
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Bacteria chiefly play an important role in ____ in ecosystems
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decomposition
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Endoderm=
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embryonic tissue layer that lines the emybryonic gut
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Seeds evolved during the
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Paleozoic age
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Only species of vertebrates have
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true bone
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Hemichordates are
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deuterostomes
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Protostome blastophore =
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Mouth
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Duterostomes blastophore=
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anus
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Plants invaded land during
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Paleozoic age
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Ratfishes belong to teh same vertebrate class as the_____
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sharks
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Lewis Wolpert claims
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Gastrulation was the most important event in life
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Fungi characterized by having a cell wall made of
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chitin
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____ ______ highly toxic form of mercury that is formed b action of bacteria
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Methyl mercury
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African Sleeping sickness caused by
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Protist
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____is a compound produced by a certain plant (um)
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Digitalin
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In animal development, the _____ is the primary body cavity
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archenteron
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True Coelom not seen in ___ ____
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round worms
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Foraminiferans were organisms that formed the
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White Cliffs of Dover
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Giant salamander is ___ in length
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1.6 m
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Endemic frog family exists on ____ _____
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Seychelles islands
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Komodo dragon is a scavenger that will occasionally kill and eat
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mammals.
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____ species of Caecilians exist
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165
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|
Giant tortoises once occurred on all continents except ______
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Australia
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Geckos are lizards with ____ ____ for vertical climbing
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Toe pads
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Green Iguana is a
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herbivorous lizard
|
|
Leatherback is the ____ of all sea turtle species
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Largest
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|
Boas are ____ bearing for their babies
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Live
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Salamanders reach highest diversity in the _____Hemisphere
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Northern
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An endemic family of frogs is found on a series of oceanic islands formed by ____ ______
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Continental drift
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Less evolutionary advanced salamanders are mostly ____- species
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Aquatic
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Development of young from unfertilized eggs
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Parthenogenesis
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Smaller lizards inhabit
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Pinyon Juiper WOodland
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Caecilians are not found in the tropics of ______
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Australia
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Poison Arrow Frog has _____ been introduced to Baltimore to reduce the number of cockroaches
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NOT
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In Florida, alligators are hunted
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recreationally
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TSD was discovered in a study of
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Red Eared Turtles
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Cone Nosed toads are adapted for
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burrowing
|
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Introduced Nile Monitor in FL may become a threat to
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Burrowing Owls
|
|
Monitor Lizards feed on __________
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eggs, small mammals, and birds
|
|
There are native species of _____ in Madagasscar
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Chameleons
|
|
_____ snakes are seize and swallow type foragers
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Garter
|
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The ____ ___ is a common species introduced to Florida
|
Cuban Anole
|
|
___ species of crocodilians exist world wide
|
23
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|
Desert Iguana is indigenous to the
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America Southwest
|
|
Only the ______ ___ turtle is chiefly herbivorous
|
Green sea turtle
|
|
Dorsal part of a turtle shell is a
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carapace
|
|
America crocodiles are not widespread and abundant in Florida. T/F
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TRUE
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All turtles are ____ _____. (In relation to reproduction)
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Egg layers
|
|
Nile crocodile is the ______
|
largest species in Africa
|
|
Parthenogenesis is seen in about 1/3 of the species in lizard genus
|
Cnemidophorous
|
|
There are roughly ___ species of salamanders
|
310
|
|
___ ____ has been introduced to the Everglades and is becoming established and competing with gators
|
Burmese Python
|
|
Snake venom is made of
|
Proteins
|
|
Modern order squamata likely descended from fossil reptile group
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Archosauria
|
|
Plastron refers to part of a
|
turtle shell.
|
|
Amphibia several species are Not adapted for feed on plants as
|
Adults
|
|
_____ viper has heat detecting pit between eye and nostril
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Eyelash Viper
|
|
Spadefoot toads are native to
|
N. AMerica
|
|
Terrestrial Caecilians mostly adapted for
|
burrowing
|
|
American Crocodile is still found on various islands of the ________.
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Caribbean.
|
|
Chameleons change color because of specialized cells called
|
Chromatophores
|
|
A species of Chameleons has been introduced to ______
|
Florida
|
|
Largest salamanders are native to
|
Japan
|
|
Mediterranean gecko is a common introduced lizard in
|
Gainesville, Fl
|
|
____ are very fast predators that feed by running down prey
|
Whiptails
|
|
Mexican parrot snake eats with the
|
Seize and swallow technique
|
|
Species in Pelican- Cormorant group have
|
Totipalmate feet
|
|
Albatrosses grouped with
|
Shearwaters
|
|
Hoatzin has claws on its ___ to help it climb through vegetation
|
wings
|
|
Various species of grouse, have their males come to a common site called a ____ to mate. (make booming noises)
|
Lek
|
|
______ are long tailed, short winged acrobatic fliers that mostly feed on birds
|
Accipiters
|
|
_____ are African Ratites introduced to Australia
|
Ostriches
|
|
Diving ducks feed on )))))))
|
Invertebrates
|
|
Collecting bird nests and eggs was once a popular
|
once a popular hobby among wealthy people
|
|
Loons have suffered declines in their breeding grounds due to
|
ACID RAIN
|
|
Swans and Geese tend to have a plumage that is
|
Monochromatic (one color)
|
|
___ is a perching duck native to S. AMerica
|
Muscovy
|
|
Ratite birds are characterized by having a
|
Flat Sternum
|
|
White pelicans different from other members of the order because they
|
Don't Dive from air for food.
|
|
Several captively bred California Condors have been released in
|
Arizona
|
|
Mallards are
|
Dabbling Ducks
|
|
Of the ratities, only the Ostrich has
|
Two toes
|
|
Elephant birds is not native to
|
New Guinea
|
|
___ species of birds in the world
|
9700
|
|
Birds descended from subclass _____ off fossil reptiles
|
Archosauria
|
|
1/2 species of birds are in the order
|
Passeriformes
|
|
Scaup is a
|
diving duck
|
|
Pelagic birds like Tubernoses live
|
Far out at sea
|
|
Common Goldeneye is a sea duck although it lives mostly
|
inland
|
|
Milton Weller wrote a book called
|
The Island Waterfowl
|
|
Hoatzin
|
Native to South AMerica
|
|
Diving and Dabbling ducks have )______plumage
|
Dichromatic
|
|
Rheas have __ toes per foot
|
3
|
|
Anhinga or snake bird is actually in the same order as the
|
Pelicans
|
|
_____ are broad winged soaring spcies
|
Buteos
|
|
There are ___ species of Mergansers in N. America
|
3
|
|
Emus have ___ toes per foot
|
3
Ostriches have 2 |
|
Merlin was once called the
|
Pigeon Hawk
|
|
Dabbling ducks feed in _____water
|
Shallow
|
|
___ species of Kiwi exist
|
3
|
|
Petrels are related to
|
Shearwaters
|
|
Whistling ducks are called
|
Tree ducks
|
|
Divers= British name for
|
Loons
|
|
Turkey Vulture has a keen sense of _____
|
SMell!
|
|
As a group, sandpipers Don't all have very long legs and beaks. T/F
|
True
|
|
Kookaburras related to
|
Kingfishers
|
|
American Bitterns in same group as
|
Herons
|
|
Woodstorks and vultures
|
unfeathered heads
|
|
All Plovers either lack or have vestigial (reduced)
|
Hallux- big toe
|
|
Pollex
|
thumb
|
|
Not all owls are nocturnal hunters. T/F
|
True
|
|
Phalaropes are shorebirds that feed by
|
SPinning in water
|
|
Mountain Plover nests far inland on
|
Grasslands
|
|
Galahs is a species of
|
parrot
|
|
Owls feet like
|
WOodpeckers-zygodactyl
|
|
Flightless rails evolved on
|
Oceanic islands
|
|
Heron/Egret have naked
|
Lores
|
|
Skimmers related to
|
Terns (they fly low_
|
|
Nightjars/Tawny Frogmouth AKA
|
Goat Suckers
|
|
Most Woodpeckers have ___ zygodactyl toes
|
4
|
|
Alcids are
|
Pelagic (dive for fish)
|
|
Female Phalaropes are
|
bright while males remain pale colors
|
|
Jaegers/Skuoas eat
|
Mammals/ Shore birds
|
|
Terns feed by
|
Diving from air for fish
|
|
Hummingbirds only in
|
New WOrld
|
|
Woodpeckers have
|
Zygodactyl feet (two forward and one or two back)
|
|
Dodos/Solitaries native only to
|
Masarenes
|
|
Limpkin main food is
|
Mollusks
|
|
Grey tailed moutainn Gem is a type of
|
Hummingbird
|
|
Gulls as a group are
|
Scavengers
|
|
Cere- a soft, fleshy swelling found on the beaks of certain birds. Characteristic of
|
Parrots
|
|
___ species of hummingbirds in Costa Rica alone
|
51
|
|
Roseate Spoonbills
|
Heron Group
|
|
Heron/Egrets eat
|
Fish
|
|
Toucanets related to
|
Woodpeckers
|
|
American SW home to ____ species of hummingbirds
|
17
|
|
Hoopoe is a
|
European/African Species, same group as Kingfishers
|
|
Eastern Us has ___ common hummingbird species
|
1
|
|
Crested Pigeons native to
|
Australia
|
|
Tawny Frogmouth are from
|
Australia
|
|
Galahs are native to
|
Australia
|
|
Groove billed Anis related to
|
Cuckoos
|
|
Dodos is in the ____ group
|
Pigeon
|
|
Whooping cranes originally nested in
|
Canada
|
|
Limpkins in the same group as
|
Rails
|
|
Currawong natives to_____
|
Australia
|
|
Horned Larks are not native to _______
|
Australia
|
|
There is a native species of crow only in
|
Hawaii
|
|
Verdin is a chickadee like species indigenous to ___ ___ ___
|
SW and Mexico
|
|
There are only ____ species of Waxwings worldwide
|
3
|
|
Thrushes are found worldwide except in
|
New Zealand
|
|
Shrikes forage by _____ small animals on _____ or _____
|
impaling, on thorns orfences
|
|
Mynas are Starlings belong to a family that is widespread on oceanic islands but Not absent from
|
Africa
|
|
Kinglets are family not found only
|
Old World
|
|
Crows are common passerines that occur worldwide except in
|
South America
|
|
Three Wattled Bellbirds indigenous to
|
Neotropics
|
|
Yellow bellied siskin is a type of ____
|
Finch
|
|
Redpolls are related to
|
Red Crested Cardinals
|
|
New Holland Honeyeater is native to
|
Native to Australia
|
|
Shrikes are found worldwide except for _____
|
Australia
|
|
Brushy tongue Characteristic of
|
Honey Eaters
|
|
Tyrannidae is the largest family only in_____
|
New World
|
|
Mynas are Starlings belong to a family that is widespread on oceanic islands but Not absent from
|
Africa
|
|
Kinglets are family not found only
|
Old World
|
|
Crows are common passerines that occur worldwide except in
|
South America
|
|
Three Wattled Bellbirds indigenous to
|
Neotropics
|
|
Yellow bellied siskin is a type of ____
|
Finch
|
|
Redpolls are related to
|
Red Crested Cardinals
|
|
New Holland Honeyeater is native to
|
Native to Australia
|
|
Shrikes are found worldwide except for _____
|
Australia
|
|
Brushy tongue Characteristic of
|
Honey Eaters
|
|
Tyrannidae is the largest family only in_____
|
New World
|
|
Nuthatches and creepers are not members of teh same family T/f
|
True
|
|
Kinglets are not found only in the
|
Old WOrld
|
|
Swallows similar to
|
Swifts
|
|
Honey Eaters are found naturally in
|
Hawaii
|
|
Most Tanagers found in
|
South America
|
|
Bobolink related to
|
Black birds
|
|
Northern mockingbird is closely related to
|
Thrashes
|
|
Vireos are
|
sluggish insect gleaning foragers
|