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Question 1

what is ecology?

Answer 1

the study of living organisms in their environment (study of ecosystems)

Question 2

what does the term paleo mean?

Answer 2

old

Question 3

what is paleoecology?

Answer 3

the study of fossils or ancient ecosystems

Question 4

what are proxies?

Answer 4

indirect evidence that allows us to interpret what things were like

Question 5

what is the principle of uniformitarianism?

Answer 5

the present is the key to the past

Question 6

why construct past ecosystems/patterns?

Answer 6

to help predict future environmental change

Question 7

soils, peat bogs, lakes, oceans, etc. are all examples of what?

Answer 7

proxy records

Question 8

what is the quaternary period?

Answer 8

change over the last 2.6 million years

Question 9

what are ice ages called?

Answer 9

glacials

Question 10

what are warm periods called?

Answer 10

interglacials

Question 11

what are short warm periods during glacials called?

Answer 11

interstadials

Question 12

what are short cold periods called?

Answer 12

stadials

Question 13

we are living in an…

Answer 13

interglacial

Question 14

our interglacial is called the…

Answer 14

the holocene