exam 3 Flashcards
featuring help from Jenna (me!!😼)
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Biome that includes prairies and plains
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grassland
2
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includes lions and cheetahs
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savanna
3
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hot and humid regions receive abundant rain and have a year-round growing season
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tropical rainforest
4
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high salinity aquatic ecosystem
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marine ecosystems
5
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where freshwater and saltwater mix
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estuary
6
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starts with barren ground
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primary succession
7
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starts with ready soil and pioneer species
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secondary succession
8
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mans relationship with nature
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dominion
9
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the responsibility
to take care of the earth
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stewardship
10
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the wise use of natural resources
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conservation
11
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living organisms
that move from place to place in their environment, mainly for the purpose of obtaining food
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animals
12
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animals that move their bodies from place to place
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motile
13
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animals that move the environment toward themselves for the purpose of trapping food
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sessile
14
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ALL VERTEBRATES HAVE THIS SYMMETRY!!!!! can be cut in half in only one plane to make each half like the other
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bilateral symmetry
15
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symmetry that can be cut in any way and is still equal
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radial symmetry
16
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“without symmetry”
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asymmetric
17
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what all mammals have in common
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warm-blooded, have hair, produce milk, breath will lungs(have a diaphragm (what Mr stimer wanted)) and have a 4 chambered heart
18
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maintains the same temperature
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homeothermic
19
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animal that lays eggs
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oviparous
20
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animal that bares young alive
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viviparous
21
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what the aardvark belongs to and means tube teeth
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tubulidentata
22
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largest land animal
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elephant
23
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manatees belong to
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sirenia
24
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made of ivory
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tusks
25
the only two egg-laying mammals and they belong to the order of
platypus and the echidna belong to the monotremata
26
means "strange joints"
Xenarthra
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the slowest land animal
Ai sloth
28
"little armored one"
armidillo
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awake during the night
nocturnal
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awake during the day
Diurnal
31
scaly anteater
pangolin
32
are identified by an abdominal pouch, in which the young are raised.
marsupials
33
the actual pouch name
marsupium
34
largest marsupial
kangaroo
35
the only marsupials outside Australia and the surrounding islands
Opossum
36
bats belong to what order
chiroptera
37
bats use what for finding food
echolocation
38
two rows of comb-like plates
baleen
39
the study of how living things interact with one another and their environment
ecology
40
where organisms can be found/where they live
habitat
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narrow range of things with life
biosphere
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basic unit of ecology
ecosystem
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smallest living unit of biosphere
organism
43
all living members of a ecosystem
community
44
abiotic factors (he said in the review to just list one)
air, temperature, wind, radiation, soil
45
range where the creature will thrive
optimum range
46
consumers that feed on other animals
carnivores
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a model used by ecologists to show the nutritional relationships among organisms in an ecosystem
food chain
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any factor outside an organism’s tolerance range
Limiting factor
48
consumers that feed on plants
herbivores
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a model used by ecologists to show *all* possible feeding relationships at each trophic level
food web (more generic than the food chain; food chain only covers ecosystem)
50
a relationship in which both organisms benefit
mutualism
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relationship where one organism is benefited and the other is harmed
parasitism
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a relationship in which one organism is benefited and the other is neither harmed nor helped
commensalism
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one organism hunts the other for food
predation
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organisms share an indirect relationship
neutralism
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a relationship in which animals feed on plants
herbivory
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another name for the water cycle
hydrologic cycle
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biome: cold winters, evergreen trees
northern coniferous forest
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biome: well defined seasons
temperate deciduous forest
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biome: contains permafrost
artic tundra
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biome: high altitudes and no permafrost
alpine tundra (similar to artic except artic HAS permafrost, alpine does not)
61
what is the worlds largest animal
blue whale
62
order of monkeys and apes
primates
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order of rats and squirrel
rodents
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what is the largest rodent
capybara
65
what is the best way to keep rats away
sanitation
66
what is the longest-gliding animal
flying lemur
67
what is also known as a coney
hyrax
68
any condition that interferes with the normal functioning of the body
disease
69
Any organism that causes disease
pathogen
70
most common immunological disease
allergies
71
Diseases that occur during development in the
mother’s womb and are present at birth
congenital diseases
72
condition that results from the runaway growth of the body’s own cells
cancer
73
shapes of bacteria
cocci, bacilli, and spirilla
74
the British doctor who established the use of antiseptics
Joseph lister
75
An epidemic that affects a large portion of the earth is a
pandemic
76
A person who displays no symptoms of a disease but harbors the pathogens in his body and can pass them on to infect others
carrier
77
An animal that transmits infection
vector
78
Y-shaped protein molecules that act like molecular homing missiles
antibodies
79
tissue fluid once it enters the lymph capillaries
lymph
80
what is the body's largest lymph organ
spleen
81
virus that causes AIDS
HIV
82
substances produced by bacteria, molds, and certain other organisms that are !effective in stopping the growth of microorganisms!
antibiodics
83
The idea that living things can arise from nonliving things is
spontaneous generation
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the teaching that all living things developed from a common ancestor
evolution
85
work became the absolute authority in human anatomy for over a thousand years
Galen
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who is the father of anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
87
the idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy
materialism
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book that provides the framework in which we view the world
the Bible
89
living things can come only from other living things
law of biogenesis
90
The idea that science can find answers for all the problems in life is called
scientism
91
the basis for one’s philosophy
worldview
92
the present is key to the past
uniformitarianism
93
(Jenna I also need his definition)(so funny story I don't have his definition because our class didn't get to ch14 but myyyy definition is:
Darwin’s ideas of evolution in coherent form
On the Origin (of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.)
simple name: *The Origin of Species*
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which sought to improve the human species by selectively breeding humans to produce a “master race"
eugenics
95
changes in a specific kind of organism
Microevolution or ! speciation !
96
the hypothetical process by which new kinds of creatures emerge from existing kinds over time
macroevolution
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simple-to-complex sequence of fossils
geologic column
98
how many times has the geologic column been observed?
never and has been found nowhere (in a textbook but Mr stimer didn't say this part)
99
Layers in the geologic column are identified by the presence of characteristic
index fossils
100
the logical fallacy of basing an argument on the very premise it attempts to prove
circular reasoning
101
This missing link was “reconstructed” from a single tooth of a pig
Nebraska man
102
was very similar to modern orangutans
ramapithecus
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“Lucy”
Australopithecus afrensis
104
(Jenna I need Mr stimer s definition)
(he didn't get to this either....)
“handy man”; actually a type of australopithecine
Homo habilis "handy man" <---(idk..-- j)
105
found in a French cave
cro-magnon man
106
German plain
Neanderthal man
107
was a hoax
piltdown man
108
(I need definition)
(he didn't get to this either.-j)
Java Man; found on the island of Java
Homo erectus (“upright man”)
109
was lost in ww2
Peking man
110
I need definition (he didn't get to it...-j)
discovered comparative anatomy
Georges cuvier
111
pocket watch theroy
William paley
112
random errors in an organism’s genetic material
mutations
113
evolution and creation are based off of
faith
114
order name for xenarthra
strange joints
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pouch of marsupials
marsupium
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order of flying mammals
Chiroptera
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type of tail designed for grasping
prehensile
