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Sci Meth life
Ecosystems
Cycles
Community Streams
Digestion
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Observations using descriptions
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What is qualitative?
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The ability to maintain an ideal internal
environment
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What is homeostasis?
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Formula for a good hypothesis.
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What is if, then, because?
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The basic building block of life
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What are cells?
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Type of cell with out membrane bound structures
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What is prokaryotic?
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The level of organization following population
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What is community?
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Another way to say producer
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What is an autotroph?
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The amount of energy passed between trophic levels
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What is 10
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Category of organisms responsible for feeding on
dead plants and animals
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What is a decomposer?
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Pyramid showing the total amount of living tissue
in a trophic level
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What is a biomass pyramid?
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Examples include water vapor, carbon dioxide,
methane and nitrous oxide
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What are greenhouse gases?
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The amount of nature needed to provide resources
and absorb wastes of an individual, city, region
or country
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What is an ecological footprint?
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The definition of transpiration
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What is evaporation of water from a plant surface
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Changing nitrogen into a useable form
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What is nitrogen fixation?
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This is the slowest biogeochemical cycle. The
element is a major component of DNA ATP
molecules. The element can be found on earth in
water, soil and sediments.
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What is the phosphorus cycle?
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A key for the identification of organisms based
on a series of choices between alternative
characters
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What is a dichotomous key?
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A species that does not naturally occur in an
area and whose introduction does or is likely to
cause economic or environmental harm?
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In coal mines, canaries were sensitve to low
levels of CO thus acting in this capacity.
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What is a bioindicator?
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Increasing the temperature of the water, will do
this to the dissolved oxygen.
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What is decrease?
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If you were to find Type 1, Type II and Type III
invertebrates in a local creek, what would this
tell you about the general health of the
ecosystem?
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Answers will vary--
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Digestion of fats, carbohydrates and proteins
occur here. .
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What is the small intestine?
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This organ secretes powerful digestive enzymes.
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What is the pancreas?
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A molecule that breaks down fats. This molecule
is produced in what organ
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The liver produces BILE.
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This organ reabsorbs water and maintains the
fluid balance in the body and it processes
undigested material.
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What is the large intestine?
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What happens if acid from the stomach goes up
into the esophagus?
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What is acid reflux, heart burn?