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| show | 5
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| show | lianas
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| show | tundra
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| show | genetic engineering
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| show | Women have more children if they are educated.
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| The zone in which you would expect to find deposit feeders along with oysters, clams, and sponges is the ____. | show 🗑
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| How do the tropical rain forest differ from the temperate deciduous forest? | show 🗑
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| About ____ of the wood harvested globally each year is burned directly for fuel or converted to charcoal fuel. | show 🗑
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| show | kinetic
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| show | been rising in numbers
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| Between 1955 and 2012, the global total fertility rate (TFR) dropped from in less-developed countries from 5 to what level? | show 🗑
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| show | hydrosphere
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| Hemp requires fewer pesticides and yield more pulp per hectare. What other source of pulp provides this benefit? | show 🗑
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| show | rivers
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| From the ____ point of view, parasites are harmful, but from the ____ perspective, parasites can promote diversity. | show 🗑
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| Aerobic respiration requires ____. | show 🗑
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| What term refers to the process of repairing damage caused by humans to the biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by ecosystems? | show 🗑
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| show | indicator species
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| show | heat in the ocean
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| show | detritivores
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| show | speciation and extinction
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| show | collecting eggs from the wild and hatching them
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| What is the best explanation for why tropical regions normally receive more precipitation than other areas of the globe? | show 🗑
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| show | Projections are made by a variety of organizations.
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| The ocean zone that covers the continental shelf is the ____. | show 🗑
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| Which term describes species that play crucial roles in helping to keep their ecosystems functioning? | show 🗑
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| show | the place where the species lives
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| Organisms that feed only on plants are called ____. | show 🗑
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| Which human activity is least likely to be a major threat to marine systems? | show 🗑
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| Humans have built dams and levees on many of the world’s rivers to control water flows. These structures ____. | show 🗑
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| show | has a broad-based pyramid
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| show | Baltic
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| show | the Endangered Species Act
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| show | taiga, cold forests, boreal forests, evergreen coniferous forests, tropical rain forests
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| The variety in the genetic makeup of individuals in a population is known as ____. | show 🗑
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| show | indicator species
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| In the IPAT equation, the ‘P’ stands for _____. | show 🗑
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| What is an end product of anaerobic respiration? | show 🗑
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| Which activity is least likely to be involved with the sustainable management of freshwater fisheries? | show 🗑
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| show | 15-49
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| The matter and energy laws tell us that we can recycle ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Opportunities for women to participate in education and employment
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| The typical percentage of high quality energy loss in transfers from one trophic level to the next is about ____. | show 🗑
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| The replacement-level fertility rate is ____ for developed countries and ____ for developing countries. | show 🗑
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| show | stopping the recharge of groundwater aquifers
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| show | Seaweed
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| Overgrazing occurs when too many animals graze for too long and exceed the carrying capacity of a rangeland area. Overgrazing causes all of the following except ____. | show 🗑
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| show | has mass and takes up space
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| Today, the ____ is among the most threatened of all species in the world, with only 1,600 to 3,000 individuals left in the wild. | show 🗑
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| show | vertebrates that live part of their lives in water and part on land
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| Ocean pollution from plastic items dumped from ships and garbage barges, and left as litter on beaches, kills up to ____ sea birds each year. | show 🗑
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| show | CH4
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| show | speciation
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| In lakes, large numbers of decomposers are found in the ____. | show 🗑
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| Oysters, sea stars, and lobsters would be considered what type of organism? | show 🗑
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| show | biomes
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| show | charge
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| We know that the introduction of nonnative species often results in unforeseen consequences. This indicates that when introducing nonnative species, we would be well advised to apply the | show 🗑
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| show | algal bloom
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| show | water in a stream
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| The loss of a(n) ____ can lead to population crashes and extinctions of other species in a community that depends on them for certain ecosystem services. | show 🗑
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| Plantation agriculture is a form of high-input agriculture that involves growing cash crops and is primarily used in ____. | show 🗑
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| The earth has sustained life for ____ years. | show 🗑
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| What is the term for the portion of the earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere where life is found? | show 🗑
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| What is a result of phosphate rich runoff from land? | show 🗑
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| What is not one of the ecosystem services of rivers? | show 🗑
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| show | potential or kinetic
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| show | lower life expectancy
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| High quality energy is constantly ____. | show 🗑
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| Women are least likely to have fewer and healthier children when ____. | show 🗑
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| show | use of portable fencing to confine cattle to ungrazed areas
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| All nonrenewable resources can theoretically be ____. | show 🗑
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| show | sharp drop in death rates
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| show | ENSO
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| The use of transmitters and GPS systems are very important in the study of ____. | show 🗑
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| A species with a broad niche is considered a(n) ____. | show 🗑
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| Although they only occupy 0.2% of the ocean floor, coral reefs provide many benefits. Which of the following is not one of these? | show 🗑
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| In lakes, the nutrient-rich water near the shore is part of the ____. | show 🗑
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| What process adds water until the water table rises and envelops the deep roots of plants, resulting in a loss of productivity and ultimately killing them? | show 🗑
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| There are ____ limits to population growth in nature. | show 🗑
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| show | 10
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| show | resilience
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| show | 20%
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| Which U.S. state is leading the way in establishing marine protected areas where fishing will be banned or strictly limited? | show 🗑
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| show | sea lamprey
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| show | increase in life expectancy
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| In some habitats, the extinction of certain amphibian species could lead to the ____ of certain species of other amphibians, aquatic insects, reptiles, birds, fish, and mammals. | show 🗑
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| By 1900, white-tailed deer populations in the U.S. were reduced to about ____, but now, since laws have been passed to protect them and their natural predators have nearly been eliminated, their population is over ____ in the U.S. | show 🗑
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| show | traditional subsistence agriculture
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| show | The growing human population is using fewer resources per person.
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| show | food desert
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| show | The law of conservation of matter
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| show | geosphere
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| The greatest marine biodiversity is located ____. | show 🗑
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| show | littoral
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| A jellyfish would be considered a type of ____. | show 🗑
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| The energy "lost" by a system is ____. | show 🗑
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| The rate at which extinctions occurred prior to the evolution of modern humans is called the ____. | show 🗑
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| show | treaty controlling the international trade in endangered species
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| Plants such as bromeliads share a commensalism interaction with large trees in tropical and subtropical forests by attaching to the trunks or branches of the trees. The bromeliads are an example of ____. | show 🗑
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