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| Renewable resource and example | can replenish itself within a lifetime, ex: water, trees
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| Nonrenewable resource and example | will eventually run out, ex: coal, oil
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| Abiotic and give an example | nonliving thing, ex: rocks, wind, water
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| Biotic and give an example | living thing, ex: grass, trees, animals
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| Natural selection | occurs in nature; survival of the fittest
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| Artificial selection | humans manipulate genetics to produce what they want
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| Name and explain the ranges from the chart | Optimal range (top; where things are thriving);
Zone of physiological stress (downslope);
Zone of intolerance (no tolerance for conditions that exist)
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| Organize the levels from smallest to largest | organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere
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| Psuedoscience and give three examples | doesn't follow scientific principles, ex: Mind reading, alchemy, astrology, palm reading
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| What are the steps for the scientific method? | 1) Come up with a question, 2) Hypothesis, 3) Experiment, 4) Analysis of the data, 5) Make a conclusion, 6) Determine if the hypothesis is supported
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| Variable | thing that is changed
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| Experimental group | receives the variable
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| Controlled group | is left alone
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| What are the 3 phases of matter? | solid, liquid, gas
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| blind experiment | scientist knows what is going on, the experimental group does not
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| double blind experiment | neither the experimental group nor the scientist knows what is going on
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| What does the double blind experiment reduce? | bias
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| What starts as one population and splits into 2? | Divergent evolution
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| What goes from 2 populations and evolves into 1? | Convergent evolution
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| when two species spend enough time together they start to look like each other | Coevolution
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| When over a long period of time enough mutations take place for a new species to emerge | Speciation
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| Small advantageous mutations that have accumulated over countless generations | Evolution
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| competition occurs within members of the same species | Intraspecific competition
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| competition occurs between two different species | interspecific competition
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| Plays the greatest role in determining an organisms range; too much or too little, animals need specific things | critical factor
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| specific gene traits that control adaptations | Inheritance
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| When both organisms benefit | Mutualism
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| When one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped | commensalism
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| when one organism benefits and the other is harmed | parasitism
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| nature should exist for its own sake regardless of human needs | Ecocentrists
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| Human centered | Anthropocentrists
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| Biological community and its surrounding physical environment | Ecosystem
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| a specific area where an organism inhabits | Niche
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| Trait that allows a species to survive more easily and reproduce | Adaptation
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| A particular environment where an organism can live | Habitat
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| all conditions that surround living organisms | Environment
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| concepts and ideas from multiple fields of study | Interdisciplinary
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| degradation or an undesired change in soil, air or water that affects the health of living things | Pollution
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| began with a public awakening to threats of pollution and toxic chemicals to humans and other species | Modern environmentalism (Rachel Carson)
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| explores issues ad problems all over the entire world not just a local community | Global environmentalism
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| area that belongs to no individual and is shared by the entire society | Commons
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| the greater the demand for something the higher the price | Supply & Demand
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| does the risk out way the benefit? Is it worth the risk | Risk Analysis
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| measurement of a persons resource use | Ecological footprint
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| when human needs are met so that the population can survive indefinitely | sustainability
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| Close system | nothing enters or leaves the earth in large quantities
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| Biodiversity | the number of different species present in an ecosystem
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| Developed country | High income, higher life span, lower population growth
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| Developing country | Low income, lower life span, higher population growth
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