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| What are land vertebrates called? |
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| What were the 1st first tetrapods? |
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| What evolved from amphibians? |
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| What did Birds and Mammals evolve from? |
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| Different groups of extinct reptiles |
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| After all the evolution where did the reptiles, birds, and mammals? |
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| What does Poikilotherm mean? |
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| What does Ectotherms mean? |
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| Metabolic rate varies with temperature |
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| Bodies enclosed by a shell that is fused to backbone. |
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| How often do turtles nest? |
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| What is another term for mass nesting? |
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| What determines the sex of turtles? |
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| How many species of turtle are there? |
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| What four turtles are officially endangered? |
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Kemp's ridley turtle
Leatherback turtle
Hawksbill turtle
Green turtle |
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| How many snake species are there? |
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| What kind of birth do these snakes have? |
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| How many species of crocodile are there? |
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Indian Ocean, Australia, some western Pacific Islands
Inhabit mangroves swamps & estuaries
The most aggresive marine animal!! |
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| Warmblooded, keep constant body temperature |
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| How are some birds waterproof? |
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| They have an oil gland at the base of their tale. They cover their feathers with it. |
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| What makes birds light enough to fly? |
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| Why would bird have fewer eggs? |
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| For better parental control |
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| How many species of penguin are there? |
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| How are penguins adapted for cold weather? |
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| They have a layer of fat under their skin and they have dense, waterproof feathers |
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| They ONLY live in the Southern hemisphere |
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| What are the different jobs of penguins? |
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The larger ones: Emperor & King hunt for fish and squid.
The Smaller penguins: Adelie & Gentoo: feed on krill |
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| When do penguins lay their eggs and why? |
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| They lay in the coldest part of winter and they hatch during the summer. |
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| How do albatrosses emit the salt in their bodies? |
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| What bird spends months to a year at sea? |
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| The wandering albatross: 11 ft wingspan |
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| What are some characteristics of Pelicans? |
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Have pouch below beaks
Feed by plunging into the water to catch fish |
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| What are some characteristics Cormorants? |
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Black, long-necked
Dive to pursue prey |
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| What are some characteristics of Frigatebirds? |
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Narrow wings, long forked tail
Force other seabirds to regurgitate
Not waterproof
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| What are some characteristics of Gulls? |
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Common & Widespread
Predators & Scavengers
Congregate near pier, garbage dumps
Often steal eggs from other birds |
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| What are some characteristics of Terns? |
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Graceful fliers
Hover over prey before plunging for it |
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| What are some characteristics of Puffins? |
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Cold-water divers
Heavy Beak
Wings adapted for swimming |
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| A thick layer of fat for insulation, food reserve, and buoyancy |
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| What does bristly hair help with? |
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| What makes a conplex brain? |
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| It has the camability to store and process information |
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| Seals, Sea lions, and Walruses |
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| What did pinnipeds evolve from? |
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| How do seals get around on land? |
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| They pull their weight with their front flippers, they cannot move their rear flippers forward. |
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| What helped seals stop being hunted for their skin, meat, oil from blubber? |
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| Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 |
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| What is the differences do seals and sea lions have? |
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Sea Lions have external ears and long necks, external male testees, and their posterior flippers can be moved forward.
Seals have short necks, no external testees, cannot move posterior flipper forward. |
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| How many species of Walrus are there? |
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| Walruses have large tusks because... |
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| Used in defense and anchor to ice |
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| What is the smallest marine mammal? |
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25-30% of their body weight per day!! DAY YUM!
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| What were they hunted for? |
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| Where do polar bears live? |
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| Lives on ice covered waters in Artic Ocean |
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NO FUCKIN LIE, EVERYTHING!!!
(ice seals, walruses, beluga whale) |
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| Where do polar bears stay when the ice melts? |
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| The shore, they fast for 4 months |
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Manatees and Dugons
-Related to elephants |
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| Are Sirenians carnivores? |
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| NO HOMIE!!!! They are Vegetarians |
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| Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises(90 species) |
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| Define: Convergent evolution |
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| Different species develop simialr structures because of similar lifestyles |
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| Cetaceans are endotherms or exotherms? |
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| Whales have what on their tale to help swim? |
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| It's basically a nose on their head. |
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| What kind of whales are filter feeding whales? |
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| What type of whale is toothed? |
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| Rows of flexible plates that hang from upper jaws |
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| What is the largest toothed whale? |
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| Seals, sea lions, penguins, fishes, sea otters, other whales. |
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| How long has whaling been a thing? |
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| Why is hunting whales a terrible idea? |
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| They have very very low reproductive potential. |
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| International whaling commission 1946 |
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| 20 nations: attempted to regulate whale hunting. |
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| What is a quick breath for cetaceans? |
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Take serveral deep breaths, then rapidly exhale before dive.
Exchange 90% oxygen each breath (20% in humans) |
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| A muscle protein that stores oxygen. |
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| Heart rate slows while diving |
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Sensory system based on hearing
(nature's sonar)
(travel 5x faster in water) |
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| Scientific study of relationships between living organisms and their natural environment or habitat |
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Physical and chemical features, non-living
ex. salinity, temp |
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Living Features
ex organisms |
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| A group of individuals of a species that live together |
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| All the different populations of organisms that live in the same place |
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| What is carrying capacity? |
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| The largest population size that can be sustained by the available resouces. |
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| What is intraspecific competition? |
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| When Organisms compete for resources with own species. |
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| What is interspecific competition? |
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| When organisms compete for resources between species |
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| What is a term for a specific role for each species? |
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| A web of indirect interactions |
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| What is stabilizing selection? |
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| Selection drives evolution toward a new optimal balances. |
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| Selection drives evolution toward a new optimal balance. |
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When members of differnt species live in close association
usually there is a host involved |
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| What are the types of symbiosis? |
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Commensal
Parasitism
Mutualism
Facultative
Obligate |
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| Describe commensal symbiosis. |
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| One species obtains sheltor, food or some benefit without affecting the other |
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| Describe Parasitism symbiosis. |
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| The symbiont benefits at the expense of the host |
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| Describe Mutualism symbiosis. |
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| Both partners benefit from the relationship |
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| Describe Facultative symbiosis |
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| Both partners can get by if they have to |
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| describe Obligate symbiosis |
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| One or both partners depend on each other |
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| What word means that an organism lives or buried on the bottom? |
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| What word means attached to one place? |
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| Live up in the water column, away from the bottom. |
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| Animals that swim well enough to oppose currents |
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| What is the neritic zone? |
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| Pelagic environment over shelf |
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| what is the Oceanic zone? |
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| Pelagic waters beyond shell break |
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| What is the difference between climate and weather? |
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Climate is the average conditions over decades
Weather is short term over day- months |
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