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1
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What is the difference between Weather and Climate?

A

Weather is day to day changes and limate is year
after year.

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What is Ecology?

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A. Organism + Enviroment
B. Different groups organisms
C. Biotic VS. Abiotic Factors

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What 3 things do an increasing human population demand of its environment?

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A. Food
B. Space
C.Energy

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4
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What is Ozone composed of?

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O3 - 3 oxygen atoms

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What is the Greenhouse effect?

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Allows Solar energy to penetrate the Atmosphere.
Will not allow heat to escape

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6
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Human activities are changing the composition of the atmosphere by relasing large amounts of what gas?

A

CO2- Carbon Dioxide

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What are the levels of Ecological Organization?

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a. Biosphere
b. Ecosystems
c. Communities
d. Populations
c. Organism

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What is the Biosphere?

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All the portions of Earth where life exists.

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What is Acclimation?

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Process When adjusting to a Change in a Abiotic factor.

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10
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The tropical zone receives:

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Direct or nearly direct sunlight

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11
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What does NOT belong in a possible list of Disturbances.

A

Natural extinctions

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12
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Food chains begin with Autotrophs

A

True

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13
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Each step in a food chain is called a…

A

Trophic level

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14
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Predators belong to which level of a food web?

A

Third

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15
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Each consumer depends on the trophic level below it for energy?

A

True

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Organisms are adapted to function within a specfic ___ of temperature, salinities and rainfall amounts…

A

Range

17
Q

The field of Ecology was begun in what year?

A

1866

18
Q

Ecology was founded by the German biologist?

A

Ernst Haeckel

19
Q

Climate is the result of many different factors. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

A

The Longitude

20
Q

The greenhouse effect is the mechanism that ____ our planet from the cold of space.

A

Insulates

21
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Which of the following factors is consider to be Non-living?

A

Abiotic Factors

22
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What TWO abiotic factors have the most infulence on the distribution of organisms?

A

Temperature and Availability of water

23
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Abiotic factors and Biotic factors are dependent upon one another.

A

True

24
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Abiotic factors are Constant.

A

False

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