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What are the 5 kingdoms?

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Animals, Plants, Fungi, Prokaryotes, Protocists

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What are the characteristics of an animal and give an example?

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Cells do not have a cell wall, multicellular and feed on other organisms

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What are the characteristics of plants and give an example?

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Cells have a cellulose cell wall and use light energy as a food source by photosynthesis, any green plant

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What are the characteristics of fungi and give an example?

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Cells that have chitin walls and reproduce using spores rather than seeds. Mushrooms and moulds

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What are the characteristics of a prokaryote and give an example?

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Have a cell wall but not made from cellulose and has no nucleus, bacteria and blue-green algae

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What are the characteristics of Protocists and give an example?

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Exists as single cells or colonies of single cells, amoeba and paramecium

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What are the 7 ranks for species?

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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species

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What is the classification of a lion?

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Animal, Vertebrate, Mammal, Carnivorous, Cat, Big Cat, Lion

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What is an arthropod?

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Insects (6legs), Arachnids (8legs), Crustaceans(10-14 legs), Myriapods (20+legs)

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How do scientists find evolutionary relationships?

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Using computer programmes to compare DNA sequence and find differences and similarities which allows an evolutionary tree to be created

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What is a species?

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A group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring

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What do organisms of the same species have?

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May have great variation and more features in common than they do with organisms of a different species

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What do closely related species have?

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A ‘common ancestor’

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What is the binomial system?

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Giving species certain Latin words so that species can be identified all over the world

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What are the problems with classifying organisms into species?

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Some organisms only reproduce asexually and some can produce hybrids by interbreeding

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Where do similar species tend to live?

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In similar types of habitats as they haven’t had to adapt to a different environment so they are very similar

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What is a food chain?

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Food chains show the feeding relationships in a habitat

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What is a pyramid of biomass?

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Charts that show the mass of living organisms at each trophic level

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What limits the length of a food chain?

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Energy lost at each trophic level

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What is a trophic level?

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Each stage of a food chain

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What makes something a producer?

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If it gain energy from photosynthesis

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What are primary consumers?

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Herbivores

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What is a herbivore?

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Eats plant material

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What are secondary consumers?

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Carnivores

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What is a carnivore?

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Eats animal material

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What is a predator?

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Either kill for food or they are a secondary or tertiary consumer

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What is prey?

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The animals that the predators feed on

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What are scavengers?

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Feed on dead animals such as vultures

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What is a decomposer?

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Feed on dead and decaying organisms and on undigested matter in faeces

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What is a food web?

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When food chains in a habitat are joined up

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How is energy lost in transfer?

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Movement, Heat loss, Excretion and Egestion

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How do you calculate energy efficiency?

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Output/Input x 100

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What does biomass mean?

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Dry mass

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Why is it difficult to make a pyramid of biomass?

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May be a problem to measure dry mass as the organisms must be dead and an organism may belong to more than one trophic level

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How could energy increase between trophic level?

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If energy I used for growth or reproduction the it would outweigh energy lost

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Why is it difficult to fit omnivores into a pyramid of numbers?

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Can be at more than one trophic level, at both primary and secondary consumers

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What would happen if one organism was removed from a food chain?

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The consumers would decrease in population until an alternate organism is found

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What is present in all living organisms?

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Carbon

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Why do we need nitrogen?

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Essential for the formation of amino acids to make proteins

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Describe the carbon cycle

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CO2 (respiration + combustion) -> CO2 absorbed (photosynthesis) -> when dead organisms are eaten and carbon back to CO2

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Who does mutualism benefit?

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Both species involved

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Who does parasitism benefit?

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The parasite, from causing harm to its living host

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What do animals compete for?

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Food, Water, Space

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What do plants compete for?

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Water, Light, Minerals

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What is an ecological niche?

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Organisms that complete the same role in the same ecological community

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What is interspecific competition?

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Happens between individuals of different species

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What is intraspecific competition?

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Happens between individuals of the same species

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Why is intraspecific competition more significant?

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Intraspecific is more likely to affect the population of a species and interspecific allows for populations to be maintained

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What does the size of the prey population depend on?

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The size of the predator population

50
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What does interdependence mean?

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The predator and prey need each other to survive

51
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What is a cleaner species?

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Removes parasite from the another species

52
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What do the population of some predators and prey show?

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Cyclical fluctuation

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Why is nitrogen-fixing bacteria and leguminous plants an example of mutualism?

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Colonies of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the root nodules gain sugars from the plant whilst the plant gains nitrates from the bacteria

54
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Why do organisms have adaptations?

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To make them better at competing for limited resources

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What adaptations do plants in cold climates have?

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Grow close to the ground and have small leaves to help conserve water and reduce damage from wind, and also contain anti-freeze proteins

56
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What adaptations do plants in cold climates have?

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Grow close to the ground and have small leaves to help conserve water and reduce damage from wind, and also contain anti-freeze proteins

57
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How are polar bears adapted to be good predators?

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Thick layer of blubber, Small surface area to volume and a greasy coat to allow water to shed after swimming as well as large feet to distribute weight and allow for better grip on the ice

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How are animals adapted to be good predators?

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Binocular vision, Hunting strategy and breeding strategy

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How are animal adapted to avoid being caught as prey?

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Eyes on the side of their head, living in groups, cryptic warning colouration and synchronous breeding

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What are the 2 types of adaptations?

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Anatomical and Behavioural

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How are some organisms adapted biochemically?

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In extremophiles and anti-freeze proteins and allows enzymes optimum temperature to change to prevent denaturing or freezing at extreme temperatures

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What is a specialist?

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Organisms that are adapted to survive in specific environment

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What is a generalist?

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Organisms that can survive in a variety of habitat but can be out-competed easily

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How is a camel adapted to living in the desert?

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Large surface area to volume ratio to allow more heat loss, Thick fur to shade, large flat feet, ability to tolerate 42 degrees, two layers of eyelashes to keep sand out, slit like nostrils

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How are cacti adapted to the desert?

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Stems that can store water, no flowers or leaves to reduce transpiration, Widespread root system to allow for the most amount of water collection

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Describe a counter-current heat exchange?

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The counter-current exchange is when warm blood going down towards to the flippers, this warm blood is transferred to the cold blood returning from flippers to ensure warm blood remains in most important areas

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What can samphire exist in?

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Extremely high salt concentrations

68
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What can fish use in cold climates?

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Anti-freeze proteins in the blood

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What is the basic evolution theory?

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That all different species have developed over time from simple life forms over 3 billion years ago

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What happens to species as the environment changes?

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Some will gain adaptations trying to survive best in the environmental changes those that do not adapt will become extinct

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What was Charles Darwin’s Theory?

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Natural selection, individuals in a species show wide variation, those with the best adaptations to the environment survive due to genetic variation, these better genes will be passed to offspring

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Why is there opposition to Darwin’s Theory?

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Lack of evidence at the time, Conflicts religious beliefs, 50 years after Darwin his theories were backed by inheritance and variation discovery

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What was Lamarck’s Theory?

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A characteristic that is used is passed to offspring, a characteristic that is not used is not passed onto offspring

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Why is Lamarck’s Theory wrong?

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His theory can not account for all observations made about life on Earth and says that there would be no simple organisms that they would disappear whereas Darwin’s Theory suggests that simple organisms will continue to live

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How are adaptations controlled?

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By genes and these genes will be passed on to the next generation

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Why does speciation require geographical or reproductive isolation of species?

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Need barriers between populations that prevent the exchange of genes

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What is the increasing human population causing?

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Reduction in Earth’s finite resource and large amounts of waste and pollution

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Why do humans populate so fast?

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Can adapt and live in almost all environments

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Why is the population growing exponentially?

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Due to better medicine and longer life spans the birth rate is higher than the death rate

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What resources are being used up by humans?

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Fossil fuels and raw materials

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Why do developed countries with smaller populations use up more resources?

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As they enjoy a higher living standard of living and this creates a bigger impact on the use of resources than poorer people as they have more luxuries

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What is pollution?

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The addition of substances to the environment that may be harmful to living organisms

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How do humans contribute to pollution?

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Household waste, CFC’s, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, sewage

84
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How does household waste and sewage cause pollution?

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Smoke alarms containing radioactive Americium, raw sewage kills aquatic organisms and harms human health

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How does carbon dioxide cause pollution?

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Released when fossil fuels are used and is a greenhouse gas

86
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How does sulphur dioxide cause pollution?

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When fuels are burnt, causes acid rain which damages building and kills plants and aquatic animals

87
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How do CFC’s cause pollution?

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Used in coolant in fridges but destroy the ozone layer, increasing UV light levels able to reach the Earth’s surface

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How can an indicator species be measured?

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If they are present or absent

89
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How can air pollution be measured?

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Bushy lichens need really clean air, leafy lichen can survive with small amount of pollution and crusty lichen can survive in more polluted air

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Why is lichen an indicator species?

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Need nutrients from rain water to grow on bark and air pollutants dissolve into water decreasing nutrients available for the lichen to grow

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How can water pollution be measured?

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Presence of mayfly larva (clean) Freshwater shrimp ( low) water louse (medium) rat-0tailed maggot or sludge worm ( high)

92
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Other than indicator species how can be pollution be measured?

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Using equipment that will find the direct measurement of pollutant levels

93
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Advantages of non-living measurements of pollution?

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No one needs to be there to take the measurements and also is more accurate, can be done in harsher conditions

94
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What is the equation for acid rain?

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CO2 + H20 -> carbonic acid + sulphur + water -> sulphurous acid

95
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What are the factors that cause organisms to become extinct?

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Climate change, Habitat destruction, Hunting, Pollution and Competition

96
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How can an endangered species be conserved?

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Protecting habitats, Legal protection, Conservation programmes, Captive breeding programmes, Seed banks, Artificial eco-systems

97
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Why should we use conservation programmes?

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Protect human food supply, Ensure minimal damage to food chains, Future identifications of plants for medical purposes and cultural aspects

98
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Why do species become endangered?

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Number of available habitats fall below critical level, population fall below critical level

99
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Why are some species protected by International Law and Agreements?

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As some animals live in international waters

100
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Why do people hunt whales?

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For whale oil and meat for eating, Is a diet for traditional communities and it still continues despite laws

101
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How are fish becoming endangered?

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Catching them faster than they can reproduce as it accounts for 15% of the world’s protein intake

102
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How are fish being protected?

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Hunting seasons, Fishing quotas, Only certain size and species of fish are allowed to be caught

103
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Why is forestry sustainable?

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As long as the forest replaces themselves or are replanted afterwards

104
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What are the consequences of deforestation?

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Increased CO2 emissions, less O2, Eco-systems destroyed and reduces biodiversity

105
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How can forestry be protected?

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Replanting woodland used

106
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What is a sustainable development?

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Providing for the needs of an increasing population without harming the environment

107
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What does sustainability require?

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Planning and co-ordination at local, national and international levels

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