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| avg energy transferred from one trophic level to the next |
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| how much of the sun's energy actually makes it to the earth? |
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| what organisms make carbohydrates? |
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| plants, bacteria, and some protists |
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| what does El Nino do to the water off the coast of south america? effects on the food webs there? |
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| colder water is replaced with warm, nutrient-poor water. deprives food webs of resources |
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| the higher the DO number ....? |
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| the healthier the aquatic ecosystem |
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| ways dissolved oxygen can be introduced to a body of water? |
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| 1. running water can "grab" oxygen right out of the air 2. aquatic plants-photosynthesis |
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| through cellular respiration, decomposers use a lot of what? |
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| the lower the dissolved oxygen |
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| Earth's biomes are created largely due to what? |
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| the amount of incoming solar energy |
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| how can turbidity affect the amt of dissolved oxygen in water? |
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| preventing sunlight from getting to the plants |
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| synchronous rotation means? |
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| we will always see only one side of the moon |
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| the Earth is closest to the sun on what? what date? |
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| Aphelion occurs when? what does this mean for the Earth? |
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| July; farthest from the sun on that day |
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| how is the greenhouse effect important to life on Earth? |
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| regulatory; makes us not too hot, not too cold. |
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| ways thermal energy can be transferred? |
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| radiation, conduction, convection |
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| the equator moves slightly faster than the poles |
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| due to Coriolis force, things in the NH are deflected to which direction? things in the SH? |
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| NH to the right, SH to the left |
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| hurricanes have historically targeted which region of the Earth? |
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