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Name two organisms that use camouflage

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Walking sticks and dead leaf mantis

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Environmental factors may cause multiple phenotypes from a single genotype

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Phenotypic Plasticity

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This biome has a climate where it had long, cold winter and short cool growing season. Dominant plant life form here is various low growing plants. Too short of a growing season for trees.

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Tundra

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This biome has long cold winter but a short but mild growing season. Dominant life form is needle leaf evergreen tree.

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Boreal forest

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This kind of tree had a set of leaves that doesn’t have to make new sets of leaves and there drought resistant which helps it survive in the winter.

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Evergreen with needle like leaves

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This biome has cold winter but the growing season is long and warm. Dominant plant form is broad leaf deciduous tree. Long enough growing season to where no adaptive Advantage to having evergreens. Trees lose leave minimize water loss.

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Temperate Deciduous Forest

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Dominant plant form is grass. Rainfall is insufficient for trees. Grass is dominant because of frequent fires in the past and over grazing animals.

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Grasslands (Prairie)

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No dominant plant form due to lack of water. Plant forms have small drought resistant leaves or none at all. They have a deep root system and shallow spreading roots to soak up lots of water. Lots of ectotherms.

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Desert.

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This biome has abundant rainfall year around and is warm year around. Dominant plant form is the broad leaf evergreen tree.

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Tropical rain forest

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Lag of several decades between declining birth rate and the slowing of population growth.

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Demographic momentum

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Countries with the most developed economies and most educated people generally have the lowest birth rates.

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Demographic Transition

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Role within a community

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Niche

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Living in relationship

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Symbiosis

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An organism feeds upon host whole living on it

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Parasitism

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Both species benefit

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Mutualism

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One species benefits while the other one is unaffected

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Commensalism

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In any energy transformation some of the useful energy is dispersed.

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Second law of thermodynamics