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| % of all insects live in the jungles |
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| Midway between South Africa and the South Pole lies the isolated island of _____, the island sits in the roarinf forties where the dale force winds draw forests up to feed king penguins |
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| South American Araucaria trees are known as |
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| The Indonesian reefs contain such a variety of life because they lie at a giant cross roads. this is the meeting place for different seas |
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| The Nine North towering Chimneys host the fastest growing marine invertebrates known |
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| The ___ is the world's smallest deer |
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| The desert of Bahrain a very unlikely place to find a crowded brustling colony of sea birds but every year a hundred thousand _______ gather here to breed |
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| There is more living matter in a seasonal forest of ____ ____, than in any tropical rainforest but its all contained within the trees |
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| Within the Taiga Forest creatures are scarce because few can eat |
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| a large humpback eats ____ ____ of krill a day |
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| a single hectare of rainforest may contain as many as ___ species of tree |
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| a very unlikely place to find a crowded brustling colony of sea birds but every year a hundred thousand SOCOTRA CORMORANTS gather here to breed |
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| at the Taiga Forest's northern extent the growing season can last for just ? month(s) a year |
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| at the sea floor the pressure is how many times as that of the surface? |
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| by weight, ___ are the most abundant animals on earth |
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| coral reegs within tropical shallow seas contain ____ of all marine life on our planet |
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| elephants eat clay because |
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| it helps absorb toxins found in many leaves they eat it is also vital nutrients |
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| from Borneo adapt to living in low nutrient soils by luring ants into its plant with nectar glands and keeping it there with waxy sides |
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| in the Western Pacific bordering Japan _____ ____ are a series of hot vents erupting in darkness and bacteria thrive |
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| in the amazon, ___ of all the rainwater that falls come from clouds produced by the trees themselves |
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| this fungus in the tropical rainforest jungle the fruiting body of ______ erupts from ant's head |
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| largest herbivores in the sea |
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one grove of redwoods in ___ contains three of the tallest trees on earth
Over 100m high, the size of a thirty story building |
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| one of the ocean's most formidable hunter weighing sixty kilos |
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| periodical cicada take __ years underground to mature |
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| sea algae are tiny but together, they produce _____ of all the oxygen in our planet atomsphere |
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for sharks:
taste in water, is the equivalent of ____ in ____ |
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| taste in water, is equivalent of _smell_ in _air_. |
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| the Great Barrier Reef is so big it can be seen from |
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| the ___ is the largest unbroken stretch of rainforest in the world |
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| the ___ is the least explored of all jungles |
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| the ___ tree is a magnet for a great diversity of aniimals within the tropical rainforest jungle |
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| the ____ ___ known as ___ ___, a relative of the redwood, is the largest living thing on earth |
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| Giant Sequoia, known as General Sherman |
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| the ____ ____ uses its feet to taste for prey within kelp sea beds |
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| the ____ are home to over 1/2 of the worlds species |
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| the ____ are the oldest organisms on the planet |
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the ____ lures eighty million sea birds to the island each summer
greatest concentration to be found anywhere on earth |
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| the ____ reef contain ten times the number of coral species than tat of the carrabbean |
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| the biggest fish of all: thirty tons in weight, ten meters long |
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| the floor of the Atlantic Ocean is split in two by an immense _________ chain that winds unbroken for forty-five thousand miles around the globe |
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the largest dose of fertilizer in the natural world
trees get an immense growth spurt |
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| the largest expanse of underwater meadows grows in the shallow waters of |
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| Shark Bay, in western Australia |
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| the sea floor is over how many miles down |
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| the sea spider is a small relative of __ and __ |
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| the smallest cat in all the Americas |
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| the tropical rainforest jungle occupies only % of land |
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the whale shark's huge bulk is sustained by
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| the world's smallest primate |
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| there are as many trees within this forest as in the entire world's rainforests combined |
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| there are individual reefs in ___ that contain almost as many kinds of fish as live in the whole of the caribbean |
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| there are only __ Amur Leopards left in the wild |
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| there are thought to be nearly _____ different types of fungi in the tropics |
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| this forest produces so much oxygen that it refreshes the atmosphere of the entire planet |
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| what kind of octopus has no need for jet propulsion since it lives so deep in the water? instead it flaps fins. |
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| within oceanic volcanic mountains, clouds of sulfides solidify into _____ as tall as a three story house |
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| within the Pacific ocean near the Galapagos Islands, there are fisstures venting superheated waters known as |
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| Nine North towering Chimneys |
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| within the taiga forest it cah take ? years for a tree to get bigger than a seedling |
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| within the tropical rainforest jungle only % of sunlight filters down to the forest floor |
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| world's smallest sea horse |
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| Cover, density, and frequency of a plant species can be accurately estimated from as little as % of the community |
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| The selection of ------can be based on typical sites (releve), random samples, systemic samples in a regular pattern, or by a combination of rancom and systematic selection |
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| subjective sides of sample location, the process of recording data is relatively rapid and nonmathemetical. |
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| methods, which are commonly used in the United States, are more conductive to statistical analysis. |
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| this method may be much less convienent than systematic sampeling but the regular sampeling of a population showing periodic variation would not be representative of a population as a whole. |
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| delimits an area in which vegitation cover can be estimated, plants counted, or species listed |
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can be established randomly, regularly, or subjectively within a study site
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| ____ quadrants can be most accurate because they have the smallest perimeter for a given area. ____ quadrants are also simple to define in the field, requiring only a center state and a tape measure |
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| a ____ size should be large enough to include significant numbers of individuals but small enough so that plants can be separated, counted, and measured without the suplication or omission of individuals |
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| ___,___, and ___ are important aspects of the plant community which can be measured by quadrant sampeling |
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| cover, density, and frequency |
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| the percentage of quadrant area beneath the canapy of given species |
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| is dertemined by the number of plants rooted within each quadrant |
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| the percentage of total quadrants containing at least one rooted indivisual of a given species |
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| the ___ is named based on the most abundant species composition |
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the ____ method is quick, nonmathematical, and should detect nearly all plant species in a given community.
cover is measure as a categoty |
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| has partly replaced quadrant sampeling in the North American studies |
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| advantages of plot-less sampeling |
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1. sample plot does not need to be established saving time
2. elimination of subjective error associated with the sample plot boundaries |
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in plot-less sampling
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the length of intercept (I)
the maximum width of the plant perpendiculat to the transect line (M) |
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in plot-less sampling
___ is calculated as the percent of transect line covered by each species |
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| measure the distance from a sampling point (or plant) to the nearest plant or nth nearest plant. |
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in distance methods
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| was developed to integrate the most desirable feature of photo print method with soil and vegetation data. |
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| the western austrailian rangeland monitoring system (WARMS) |
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| the number of frequency categories munus 1 and the significance level typicall is 0.05. |
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