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| show | lianas
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| Treeless, bitterly cold most of the year, long and dark winters, low-growing plants, and permafrost are characteristics of which of the following? | show 🗑
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| Scientists are now able to produce desirable traits in some organisms by adding, deleting, or changing segments of its DNA. This process is known as ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Women have more children if they are educated.
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| show | abyssal zone
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| show | Deciduous forests have a slower rate of decomposition than rain forests.
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| show | 50%
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| show | kinetic
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| show | been rising in numbers
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| show | 2.4
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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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| Which of the following is classified as a freshwater aquatic life zone? | show 🗑
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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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| show | glucose and oxygen
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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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| Species that provide early warnings of damage to a community or an ecosystem are called ____. | show 🗑
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| show | heat in the ocean
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| show | detritivores
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| The earth’s biodiversity is determined by the balance between ____. | show 🗑
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| Egg pulling refers to ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Increased heating increases local evaporation.
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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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| show | herbivores
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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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| The most far-reaching and controversial environmental law ever adopted requiring the identification of endangered and threatened species is ____. | show 🗑
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| show | taiga, cold forests, boreal forests, evergreen coniferous forests, tropical rain forests
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| show | genetic variability
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| show | indicator species
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| show | population size
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| show | acetic acid
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| show | facilitating the introduction of commercially important nonnative species
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| show | 15-49
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| show | matter but not energy
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| show | Opportunities for women to participate in education and employment
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| show | 90%
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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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| Kelp forests are composed of large concentrations of a(n) ____. | show 🗑
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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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| What are amphibians? | show 🗑
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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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| Which of the following is an example of an organic compound? | show 🗑
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| Under certain circumstances, natural selection can lead to an entirely new species. a process called ____. | show 🗑
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| show | benthic zone
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| Oysters, sea stars, and lobsters would be considered what type of organism? | show 🗑
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| Large regions characterized by a certain climate and dominant plant life are called ____. | show 🗑
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| show | charge
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| show | precautionary principle
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| Several key factors help to determine the types and numbers of organisms found in the various layers of both freshwater and marine systems. What is not one of these? | show 🗑
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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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| show | tropical, less-developed countries
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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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| Scientists classify energy as either ____. | show 🗑
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| Overnutrition and undernutrition are both key factors in which of the following health problems? | show 🗑
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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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| show | exhausted or depleted
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| The exponential rate of growth of the total human population over the past 100 years has been a result of ____. | show 🗑
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| What term describes the large-scale weather phenomenon that occurs when prevailing winds in the Pacific Ocean weaken, resulting in above average warming? | show 🗑
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| The use of transmitters and GPS systems are very important in the study of ____. | show 🗑
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| show | generalist species
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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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| show | waterlogging
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| show | always
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| If grass stores 1,000 energy units received from the sun, the ecological efficiency of the ecosystem is 10%, and the trophic levels are grass → cow → human, how many units of energy does the human receive of the original 1,000 units? | show 🗑
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| What refers to the ability of a living system to be restored after a period of moderate to severe disturbance? | show 🗑
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| What percentage of the world’s grain production is used to make biofuels such as ethanol for cars? | show 🗑
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| show | California
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| show | sea lamprey
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| A high incidence of AIDS in a country is least likely to result in a(n) ____. | show 🗑
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| show | extinction
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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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| What law states that when matter undergoes a physical or chemical change, no atoms are created or destroyed? | show 🗑
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| show | geosphere
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| The greatest marine biodiversity is located ____. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not a type of inland wetland? marshes, littoral, swamps, prairie potholes, Arctic tundra | show 🗑
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| A jellyfish would be considered a type of ____. | show 🗑
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| show | converted to lower-quality energy
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| show | background extinction rate
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| CITES is a(n) ____. | show 🗑
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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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