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| Three Symbiotic Relationships |
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| mutualism, parasitism, commensalism |
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| Dog and Tick, Misteltoe and Tree |
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| Clownfish and Sea Anemone (finding Nemo) |
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| Symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits but doesnt help nor harm the other organism. |
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| Symbiotic relationship where both species benefit from the relatioship. |
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| Symbiotic relatioship where one species harms the other species |
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| Why do certain organisms live near the equator rather than the poles? |
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| Some species are more adapted to the climate by the equator and can survive and reproduce. Another species is more adapted to the poles, and can survive at the poles and reproduce. Darwin's theory of evolution. |
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| How is it possible to find fossils of the same organisms on different continents? |
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| There was once a supercontinent called Pangaea. Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift explains that the continents were once together, and slowly broke apart. Fossils were buried in rock layers, and separated. |
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| Living organisms, or once living in an environment. |
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| Nonliving factors, air, temperature, water, soil, rocks. |
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| How do abiotic and biotic factors interact with each other in an ecosystem? |
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| Biotic factors use abiotic factors to survive, such as water, shelter, and temperature. Organisms need to be adapted to their environment's abiotic factors. |
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| Radiometric dating, half lifes, carbon dating to find a more exact age for rock layers. |
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| Law of Superposition, youngest is on top and older layers are on the bottom. Unconformities break through the layers. |
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| Shows how organisms are interconnected in many ways to get energy and food supplies. |
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| follow one path of energy as they find food |
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| Producers are on the bottom trophic level, primary consumers above, secondary consumers, and finally tertiary consumers. Energy passed on decreases as move up the Energy Pyramid |
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| The alleles are the same Example BB or bb (Captial means pure dominant and lower case is pure recessive) |
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| two alleles for a gene are different (Bb) |
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| The expression of the genotype (what you see) |
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