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1
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there were theories of evolution before who?

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Darwin

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Is the biological change process by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors

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Evolution

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is a group o organisms that can reproduce and have a fertile offspring

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species

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who were the most important naturalists of th 18 century?

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Linnaeus
Buffon
Erasnus Darwin
Lamarck

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who made a CLASSIFICATION system from kingdoms to species’

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Linnaeus

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who proposed that all species shared a COMMON ANCESTOR rather than rising separately

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Buffon

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who proposed that more-complex forms developed from less-complex forms

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Erasmus Darwin

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who proposed that enviromental change leads to use or disuse of a structure

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Lamarck

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9
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Who was Charles Darwin’s grandfather?

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Erasmus Darwin

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what set the stage for Darwin’s theory?

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geologic change

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are the three theories of geologic change:

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catastrophism
gradualism
uniformitarianism

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12
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marine ecosystems are:

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global

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13
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is the ocean zone with most biomess

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neritic zone

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14
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what are the 2 types of plankton?

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zoplankton and phytoplankton

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15
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coral reefs are found in:

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warm ecosystems

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16
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are found in cold ecosystems

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kelp forests

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17
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includes estuaries as well as flowing and standing water

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freshwater ecosystems

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18
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is a partially enclosed body of water

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an estuary

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is a region of land that drains into a body of water

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watershred

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are the 3 lake zones

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littoral zone
limnetic zone
benthic zone

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is an undesirable factor added to air, water, or soil

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pollution

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is a type of air pollution

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smog

23
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slows the release of energy from earth’s atmosphere

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greenhouse effect

24
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refers to the tend of increasing global temperatures

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global warming

25
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provide a sign of an ecosystems’s health

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indicator species

26
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are indicators species

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amphibians and top predators

27
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causes accumulation of toxins in the food chain

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Biomagnification

28
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is the most affected in biomagnification

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top predator

29
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biodiversity is important to:

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the future of the biosphere

30
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it prevents an organism from accesing its entire home range

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Habitat fragmentation

31
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are the solution to habitat fragmentation

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habitat corridors

32
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is a specie bought to an ecosystem by humans

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introduced species

33
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often push off native species

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invasive species

34
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are 3 examples of invasive species

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Brumese phyton
mice
kudzu

35
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meets needs without hurting future generation

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sustainable development

36
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are 4 examples of sustainable practices of fisheries

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rotation of catches
fishing gear review
harvest reduction
fishing bans

37
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are species that with its own protection also protects other species

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umbrella species

38
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is the science of naming and classifying organisms

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taxonomy

39
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are the parts of the scientific names

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Genus species descriptor

40
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Genus is always

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Capitalized

41
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advantages of the scientific names

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help scientists to communicate

42
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how is organized the Linnaean classification?

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seven levels (seven taxas)

43
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which are the seven levels of classification?

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Kingdoms
phyllum
class
order
family
genus
specie
44
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limitation of linnaean classification

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is based on what you see

45
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is the evolutionary history of a group of species

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phylogenes

46
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what are molecular clocks?

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clue providers to evolutionary histotry

47
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How does molecular clocks work?

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use mutations to estimate evolutionary time

48
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is used to study closely related species

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mitochondrial DNA

49
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is used to study distantly related species

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ribosomal RNA

50
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is the chronological order of the adittion of kingdoms

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1 Animalia, Plantae
2+protista
3+Monera
4+Fungi
5+Archaea
51
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what does Carl Woese discovered?

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the 3 domains

52
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how are the 3 domains named?

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Bacteria Archaea and Eukarya

53
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what is included on each of the 3 kingoms

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Archaea: Archaea Kingdom
Bacteria: Bacteria Kingdom
Eukarya: Animalia, Plantae, Protista and fungi kingdoms

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