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Genetic
Diversity
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Species
Diversity
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Habitat
Diversity
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Anthropomorphic
Actions
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Theory of
Island
Biogeography
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Ecosystem
Services
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Allelic combinations
on this nucleic acid
account for
different
phenotypes.
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What is the DNA?
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The ability of an
organisms variation
in phenotype to
cause a shift in
population due to
environmental
change.
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What is fitness?
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What is the
Tropical
Rainforest?
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What is the
Temperate
Deciduous Forest?
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What is the Taiga
(boreal,
coniferous
forest)?
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In
1.
2.
3.
4.
the U.S.
Great Basin (rain shadow)
Mojave (rain shadow, subtropical)
Sonoran (coastal, rain shadow, subtropical)
Chihuahuan (interior, subtropical)
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What is the
Desert?
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What is the
Savanna?
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What is the
Chaparral?
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What is the Alpine
Biome?
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4.
1.
7. 2.
5.
3.
6.
Name these biomes in order 1-7
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What are the
1.Taiga
2. Temperate (Deciduous) Forest
3.Tropical Rainforest
4. Tundra
5. Desert
6. Savanna
7.Grasslands?
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Nonseasonal
Temp rarely gets higher
than 93 °F (34 °C) or
drops below 68 °F (20
°C);
Av annual temp 28 °C
Humidity is between 77
and 88%;
Rainfall: over 95in/yr
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What is the tropical
rainforest?
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Bitter cold , except for an 8-10 week growing season
Precipitation low (6-10in year)
Soil thin and underlain with permafrost
Av Temp
Winter: -30 oF
Summer: 45 oF
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What is the
Tundra?
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Seasonal; Winters long
and cold; Precipitation
light in winter, heavier
in summer; Soils acidic
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What is the Taiga
(boreal/coniferous
forest)?
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4 distinct seasons,
temp below freezing in winter,
summers warm and humid
Rainfall30-80in/yr
Soils well developed
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What is the
Temperate
Deciduous Forest?
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Seasonal rainfall, 10-60in/year
soils rich and often deep, fires frequent
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What are the
grasslands?
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Where would you hear
the Swahili phrase
Hakuna Matata
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What is the
Savanna?
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In South America, they're
called pampas. In Central
Eurasian, they are
referred to as steppes In
Southern Africa, they are
known as veldt. In the
U.S. Midwest, they're
known as prairies.
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What are
Grasslands?
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The Yanomami society
hunter-agriculturists
Estimated population
26,000
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What is the
Tropical Rainforest
(in Brazil)?
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Their arctic
homeland stretches
across N.east
Russia and Alaska,
Northern Canada
and parts of
Greenland. Their
name means “ the
people” or “real
people”
We are the …
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Who are the Inuit
people?
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Originally designed by Harold Thomas in 1971 as a
protest flag for the land rights movement of
indigenous people of the “outback” but has since
become a symbol of the ______ of ______(country).
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Who are the
Aboriginal People of
Australia?
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Thorny bushes &
shrubs, cacti
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What is the
Desert?
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Broad-leafed trees
Abundant epiphytes and
vines
Little understory
Soil 3-4in thick and
ancient
Clay underneath topsoil
Once damages, soil may
take years to recover
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What is Tropical
Rainforest?
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Broad-leafed deciduous trees,
some conifers, shrubby
undergrowth, ferns, lichens,
mosses
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What is the
Temperate
Deciduous Forest?
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Spruce, Fir, Pine,
Hemlock
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What is the Taiga
(Coniferous Forest)?
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Short growing season for sedges,
lichens, mosses, grasses
(6-10 weeks)
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What is the
Tundra?
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What is the desert
foodweb?
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What is the Tundra
foodweb?
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What is the Taiga
(boreal/coniferous)
foodweb?
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What is the
Temperate
Deciduous Forest
foodweb?
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What is the
Chaparral foodweb?
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Ecotourism
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Environmental
Issues
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Endangered
Species
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Resources
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Aquatic Biomes
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Misc
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Belize, Costa Rica, Brazil (Amazon)
Pack insect repellent!
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Where is the
Tropical Rainforest?
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Best time to
visit: Dec-Feb
Bring a cooler filled with drinks, sunglasses, hat,
binoculars, and a lot of sunscreen!
Make sure your car/suv is in good working condition
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Where is the
Mojave Desert
(Death Valley)?
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Where is the
temperate forest?
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The most exciting
activity in the
African SAVANNA
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What is a Safari?
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Mountain Hiking Zone …Just
Past The TREE LINE
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What is Alpine
Biome?
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In Brazil, this practice
removed 50,000 square miles
between 2000 and 2005.
Biologists worry about the
long-term consequences.
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What is
deforestation?
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Xeriscaping is a waste-efficient
landscaping technique
which helps to reduce (conserve)
the use of this natural resource
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What is
WATER?
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Acid rain,
climate change,
deforestation
for ski areas,
and logging are
threatening this
biome.
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What is the Taiga
(Coniferous Forest)?
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There are four primary
threats to this
ecosystem in
California:
development, excessive
fire, conversion to
rangeland, and negative
public attitudes (viewed
as a wasteland).
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What is the
Chaparral?
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The two greatest
threats to the plants
and animals of any
ecosystem in any
biome
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What is Habitat
Loss and Climate
Change?
I will also accept Human
Population Growth and one
of the above
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What is the
Tropical
Rainforest?
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What is the
Sonoran desert
(southwest US)?
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What are the
grasslands?
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The worst oil spill in
US (before the BP
oil spill) occurred in
1989 in Prince
William Sound Alaska
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What is the Exxon
Valdez?
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These are listed as endangered in the
Dept of Fish and Wildlife of this
deciduous forest STATE.
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What is
Massachusetts?
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This aquatic biome is
referred to as “the
tropical rainforest of
the sea”
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What are coral
reefs?
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About 1/4 of all medicines
discovered here. Curareanesthetic and to relax muscles
during surgery. Quinine-to treat
malaria. A person with
lymphocytic leukemia has a 99%
chance that the disease will go
into remission because of the
rosy periwinkle. More than
1,400 varieties are thought to
be potential cures for cancer.
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What is Tropical
Rain forest?
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Fertile loam soil
wheat
legumes
soybeans
grazing cattle
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What are
grasslands?
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Russian for “a transitional
plant community”, this biome
is one-fifth of the world's
total forested land and
contains oil, natural gas, coal,
and many mined minerals
including diamonds
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What is the Taiga?
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About 80% of the world's
readily accessible reserves
of this are located in the
desert biome of the Middle
East, with 62.5% coming
from the Arab 5: Saudi
Arabia, UAE, Iraq, Qatar
and Kuwait.
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What is petroleum
(crude oil)?
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Small, shallow enough
for light to strike the
bottom, rooted plants
grow throughout
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What is a pond?
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These aquatic
ecosystems are lotic
(fast moving)
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What are rivers
and streams?
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Aquatic ecosystem where
temperature stratification in the
summer takes place.
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What is a lake?
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Where freshwater meets the
ocean
shallow, partially enclosed
organisms that live here need
to be specially adapted for
fresh/saltwater interactions
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What are estuaries
(or bays)?
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Two abiotic
conditions necessary
for coral to grow
and develop
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What are warm
temperatures and
plenty of sunlight?
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This pond larva
develops into….
a real pest
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What is mosquito?
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The base of the
food chain in
aquatic ecosystems?
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What are
phytoplankton?
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Tundra came from the Finnish
‘tunturia’, meaning ‘barren land’.
Also known as “land of the midnight
sun”
and for this…
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What are the
Northern Lights
(Aurora Borealis)?
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Type of Emergent
Aquatic Plant that
is an Invasive
Species
(outcompeting
native wetland
vegetation)
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What is Purple
Loosestrife?
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Bogs, marsh, swamps are
collectively known as
___________;
ecologically diverse
ecosystems that provide
valuable flood control, and
are effective at filtering
and cleaning water
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What are wetlands?
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