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| Three major types of biological diversity? |
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systematics
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| Organizing information about diversity |
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| explanations of functioning of diversity |
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| explanations of how diversity came about |
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| knowledge about the natural world which is necessary for survival and lead to animal religions |
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| created an encyclopedia in no e work about all known animals and plants |
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| first explorer to go around the world |
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| had a fleet of 80,000 men who went throughout the indian ocean but because of a resume change he never was able to find america |
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| The last major remnant of the roman empire |
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| The goal of Queen Isabella of Castile when she marries King Ferdinand of Argon. |
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| Columbus besieged the last Moorish stronghold by promising the Emir they would not pillage or enslave in what location? |
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| How did Columbus get most of his funding? |
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| By Ferdinand and isabella decreeing that all Jews must convert to Christianity or leave Spain and seizing their money |
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| A French explorer who landed in tahiti? |
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| A British explorer who explored the pacific and was clubbed trying to break up a fight in Koi. |
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| Who sailed on the HMS Beagle |
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| The 3 extremely popular examples of species concepts. |
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Biological species
evolutionary
morphological |
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| Species concept that stagnates a group of interbreeding natural populations that is reproductively isolated from other such groups. |
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| Species concept that an entity composed of organisms which maintains its identity from other such entities through time and over space, and which has its won independent evolutionary fate and historical tendencies. |
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| Species concept that species are the smallest groups that are consistently and persistently distinct and distinguishable by ordinary means. |
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| Number of mass extinctions. |
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| Reasons for the destruction of biodiversity |
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habitat destruction
introductions
commercial hunting and fishing
pollution |
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| Bird that became extinct because of the loss of their habitat and hunting pressures |
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| was wiped out because of the loss of prairies, the fun of shooting them from the train, and over hinting. |
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| Fish that was over fished in the 80's and the populations still have not bounced back. |
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| pirate that discovered san francisco |
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| has the highest gnipp in the world |
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| what was the mission of the HMS beagle |
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| map the coastline of south america |
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| there are approximately how many speices of organisms |
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| What were the answers to Yali's questions? |
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axes of mountian ranges affected the transport of plants & animals
pool of potentially domesticable plants & animals allowed food surpluses
which allowed some the luxury of inquiry and technological innovation
led to large populations which developed a level of immunity from zoonoses
transmission of technology, crops, animals via favorable geography
dominated other peoples because of technology, writing, diseases |
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| Why did the vikings fail? |
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not a very large population and not particularly advanced in technology; they only raised cattle
there also was little trees, and not a lot of trade |
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| Example of a trend in species diversity; latitudinal |
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| bivalves, butterflies, lizards, trees |
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| Example of a trend in species diversity; age |
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| Example of a trend in species diversity; ecological succession |
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| Example of a trend in species diversity; geology and climate |
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| amphibians, temperature in birds and mammals, elevation in birds, plants, ants |
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| Solutions to population growth and the environment? |
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| economics, cost of living, taxation, regulation, and consumption and consumer choices |
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