Chapter 10: God is Three Flashcards

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Biodiversity

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The number of taxa (Usually species)

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Climate

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The average temperature and rainfall at a given location

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Biome

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Flora and fauna found in a particular climate and across a large area of the earth’s surface

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Rainforest

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A forest land biome designed for the wetter part of the earth’s tropical zone

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Savannah

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A grass land biome designed for the dryer part of the earth’s tropical zone

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Desert

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A land biome designed for the earth’s arid zones

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Temperate Grasslands

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Grass land biome designed for the dryer part of the earth’s temperate zone

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Temperate Deciduous Forest

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Forest land biome found in the wetter part of the earth’s temperate zone

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Deciduous

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When a tree drops its leaves at a certain point in the year and then regrows them at another

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Coniferous Forest

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Forest land biome found between the temperate and polar zones of the earth

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Tundra

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Biome found in the earth’s polar zone

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Groundwater

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Water that flows underground on its way to the ocean

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Coral Reef

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High diversity, low latitude marine biome living in limestone structures built by organisms

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Niche

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Role of an organism in a biological community

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Estuary

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Ocean outlet of river where water saltiness transistions from fresh to marine

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Trophical Structure

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The flow of energy through a community

From producers through comsumers

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Producer

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An organism that gets its energy from the physical enviroment

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Consumer

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An organism that gets its energy by consuming organic molecules

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Decomposer

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An organism that gets its energy from breaking down dead organisms and recycling the molecules so they can be used again in the community

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Tier

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Vertical zone of a forest characterized by a unique flora and fauna

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Habitat

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Space in a biological community in which species can thrive

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Resource Partitioning

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Division of a biolgical community’s resources among different organisms

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Disparity

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Measure of how different organisms are when compared with one another

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Endangered Species

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A species whose population is declining at a rate that puts the species at risk

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Conservation Biology
Discipline of biology that seeks to preserve organisms and biological communities
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Sustainable Development
Preserving biological communites as we transform the enviroment
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Threatened Species
A species that is likely to become endangered in the near future
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Biodiversity Hot Spot
A region that, if altered, would result in the greatest extinction of organisms
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Reproductive Cloning
Producing from one organism, another organism with identical DNA
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Identical Twins
Two people with identical DNA; arise from embryo cells separated soon after fertilization