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56 Cards in this Set
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In the language of the food chain herbivorous animals are called |
Primary consumers |
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Which components are necessary for photosynthesis to occur |
Carbon dioxide light and water |
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Plant decomposition releases blank into the atmosphere |
Carbon dioxide |
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Net primary productivity is greatest on land. |
In the tropics |
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According to the food chain concept it takes blank kilograms of plankton to make one kilogram weight gain for human |
1,000 |
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Animal wastes on the ground form a part of the ____ cycle |
Nitrogen |
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Over the last century and a half the main source of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide has been |
Burning of fossil fuels |
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Which of the following is a key environmental constraints on biota |
Temperature, light, soil, moisture |
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Which of the following is another term for tropical rainforest |
Selva |
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Animals that eat plants are |
Herbivores |
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Plants adapted to environments with surplus moisture are called |
Hygrophytic |
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No other element of the physical landscape has been so transformed by human interference as the |
Plants |
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The richest assemblage of flora and fauna outside the tropics are in the |
Midlatitude and deciduous forest |
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Plants which survive seasonal climatic fluctuations from year to year are |
Perennials |
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The transfer of moisture from plant leaves to atmosphere is |
Transpiration |
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The major biome characterized by relative absence of trees is the |
Tundra, steppe, savanna, desert |
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Plants that live above ground and out of Contact with the soil, usually growing on trees or shrubs are |
Epiphytes |
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A ____ is a natural but variable sequential change in vegetation patterns |
Succession |
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According to the concept of vertical zonation, changes in ____ are the counterpart of changes in altitude |
Latitude |
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In Brasil the most pressing problem in its tropical rain forest region seems to be |
Rapid deforestation |
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The soils characterized by plentiful partly decayed plant materials are |
Histosols |
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Based on the pH scale soils are neutral at |
7.0 |
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The pedogenic regime associated with the tropical moist climates is |
Laterization |
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Mollisols and ____ are the two most agriculturally productive soil orders |
Alfisols |
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The measure of a soil's capacity to hold water and air is called |
Porosity |
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____ is a soil texture in which none of the three main soil separates dominates the other two |
Loam |
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The smallest sized pieces of soil are |
Clays |
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Mature tropical soils are generally noteworthy of their |
Red color |
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Air with anise oil is usually highly saturated and rich in |
Carbon dioxide |
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In terms of topography the deepest soils |
Are on flat land |
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Igneous rocks deposited on the surface and then cooled are known as |
Extrusive |
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The view point that Past processes are the same as a present ones which created our present land surface is know as |
Uniformitarianism |
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An inner segment of the earth which is rigid and dense and solid and lies directly beneath the Moho is called the |
Mantle |
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When subjected to metamorphism limestone usually become |
Marble |
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In the formation of igneous rocks large crystal size is closely related to |
Slow cooling |
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The proof for the long idea of drifting continents came in the form of |
Analysis of magnetic and seismic patterns |
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The inferential knowledge concerning the nature of the interior of the Earth has been accumulated by |
NOT gravity studies, lunar cycles, seismic wave analysis,or computer modeling |
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Most processes which shape topography are |
Very slow |
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Crustal movements of various kinds in the Earth's crust are collectively called |
Tectonic activity |
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The plates in plate tectonics are in the |
Lithosphere |
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The original large continental mass containing all of the present continits prior to separation millions of years ago has been named |
Pangea |
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In folded terrain a simple symmetrical downfold is termed in a |
Syncline |
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Since the 1960 the cause of plate tectonics has been identified to be |
Convection |
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The first comprehensive theory of continental drift was pronounced by |
Wegener |
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Wagner's early proposal of continental drift was not taken seriously because of his |
Failure to provide a plausible cause |
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Which of the following refers to the surface of the earth directly above the center of an earthquake |
Epicenter |
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In earthquakes P waves |
Are faster than S waves |
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On the Richter scale very large earthquakes are assigned the number of |
7 or above |
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The Pacific Ring of Fire refers to the |
Volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean |
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Shield volcanoes are blank than composite volcanoes |
Wider |
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Explain how the patterns of volcanoes and earthquakes are related to plate tectonics |
The majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur along plate boundaries where the different plates interact with each other |
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Contrast the shape structure and formation of composite and shield volcanoes |
Composite volcanoes are tall conical shape with layers of Ash and lava. shield volcanoes are not very tall and look like flat Mountains |
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Explain the struggle between the internal and external processes in shaping Earth's surface |
The rock cycle explains the relationship between Earth internal and external processes and relate to the formation of the major rock groups to external and internal processes |
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Describe the current world situation regarding the removal of rainforest vegetation highlight environmental concerns associated with this deforestation |
More than half of the world's animals live in the rainforest many insects are also found in the tropical rainforest a number of these creatures are endangered. with each year thousands of acres of forest are destroyed destroying the animals homes and food sources |
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Describe the current world situation regarding the removal of rainforest vegetation highlight environmental concerns associated with this deforestation |
More than half of the world's animals live in the rainforest many insects are also found in the tropical rainforest a number of these creatures are endangered. with each year thousands of acres of forest are destroyed destroying the animals homes and food sources |
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How do plants create carbohydrates |
Photosynthesis they use co2 and water and sunlight to create glucose glucose is converted to Other carbohydrates |