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What is the human dental formula?
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| For chopping,gnawing and stripping of plants |
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| What do the canine teeth do? |
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| What do the cheek teeth do? |
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| molars and pre-molars grind and shear off picees of food |
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| The top half of your dkull minus your lower jaw |
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Where is the frontal bones?
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| Forms the top front portion of braincase. |
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| The lower half of your skull or mandiable |
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| Where is the Lacrimal pit? |
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| Depression in lacrimal bone |
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| The bone forming major portion of the jaw on each side |
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| what is the occipital bone? |
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| The large broad bone forming the back of the skull |
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| Where is the pariental bone? |
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| Forms the top,back portion of the brain case behind the frontal bones |
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| The most anterior part of the skull, upper jaw infront of the premaxilla |
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| Where is the sagital crest? |
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| Lengthwise ridge on top of he braincase at the suture where two parientols join |
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| The visable join or line where two bones meet |
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| what is the zygomatic arch? |
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| The cheeck bone where the curved bones foarming an arch along the side of the skull bellow the orbit |
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| If the eyes are towards the side of the skull what type of animal is it? |
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| An animal that preys, provides wide field of vision |
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| Is the eyes are towards the front of the skull usually the animal is what? |
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| A ptedetor, vision keeps presdetors from becoming distracted |
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| if the eyes are placed high on the head what type of animal is it? |
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| if the eye diamater is very large what does this indicate? |
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| That the animal is nocturnal |
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| if the eye diameter is small what does this indicate? |
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| That the animal has limited eye sight pr lives under ground |
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| If the nose is longer what does this indicate? |
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| that the animal may have hunted by scent or use to probe ground or keep eyes from being poked by branches |
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| What class of animals are Cyotes,foxes,dogs, and wolves? |
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| A medium sized flesh eateing carnivore |
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| What keeps wolf packs together? |
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| What does the lonesome howl mean? |
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| the wolf is usually seperated from pack |
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| What does the pup howl mean? |
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| What does the confrotational howl mean? |
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| helps maintain space from rival packs |
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| What does the Chorus howl mean? |
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| may sound like more than one wolves then there actually are |
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| Does the wolf pr the cyote weigh 70-100lbs? |
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Does the wolf or the cyote weigh 15-40lbs
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| Does the wolf or the cyote have a shoulder heigh of 2 1/2ft? |
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| Does the wolf or the cyote have a shoulder heigh of 1 1/2 ft? |
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| What does predation mean? |
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| one individual capture kills and consumes another |
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Defense of species:
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harmless species resemble a posionous species or when two species look similar
ex: monarch butterfly |
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Defense:
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| Posionous, irritants7 bad tasting chemicals |
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When 1 species benifits & other is not affected
ex: clownfish/ sea anemone |
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| interactions that benifit both organisms |
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| A group off animals belonging to the same species that inhabit a specific location |
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| The # of individuals per unit area or unit volume |
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| How do you find the calculation of an animal? |
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(Total# marked)(total # recaptured)
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(# of recaptured tagged) |
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| What are the 3 types of distribution? |
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Clumped: Patchy distribution of resources
Uniformed spacing: resources are distriputed evenly
random spacing: resources are randomly spaced |
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| the # of biological species an enviroment can support at its maximum population size that the enviroment can support. |
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| Density independent vs. Density dependent |
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Independent: Affect the population no matter what density is ex; natural disasters, tempetture, human activites
Dependent: Can only affect a population when it reaches a certain density. Ex: diseases, predation, & competition |
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| How many species of birds are there? |
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| Birds have fewer bones. why? |
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| becuase some are fused together 50% of body weight is muscle. and so they can be lighter |
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| To speed up metabolism and makes muscles work more efficently |
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| What does the frucula (wishbones) do? |
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| prevents compression of chest during the downstroke of wing beat |
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| What 2 animals are in the beaver like family? |
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| Muskrats, nutria, and the beaver |
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| What are 3 animals are in the weasel family? |
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minks, fisher, and the martten
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| what animal is in the raccoon family? |
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