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This term describes the diversity of genes, species, habitats, and ecosystems on earth.
What is Biological Diversity?
Fuel that is obtained from decomposed plant matter is known as this.
What are fossil fuels?
The primary organism that fixes carbon in the ocean is classified in this group.
What is phytoplankton?
3.5 billion; 540 million
What was the years ago that bacteria first appears in the fossil record, and when multicellular appeared?
If a chemist is sick, you can't helium, and you can't curium, you'll probably have to barium.
Scientists measure energy in Newtons.
What is, "Scientists measure energy in joules."?
What’s the Difference Between a Cat and a Comma?
One has claws at the end of its paws, and the other is a pause at the end of a clause
In this year, the California government ruled in favor of protection of Mono Lake.
What is 1983?
The three major aspects of an ecosystem.
What are the boundary, abiotic factor, and biotic factor?
One is toxic, the other is necessary to life systems on Earth.
What is nitrite and nitrate?
My uncle is like four. He's 2 square!
50,000
What is the area, in Kilometers, of the Everglades Watershed?
Mono Lake is northeast of Los Angeles between the Rocky Mountain range and the Mojave Desert.
What is "Mono Lake is northeast of Los Angeles between the Sierra Nevada Mountain range and the Great Basin Desert"?
PRECIP = ET + I + RO
What is the hydrologic cycle?
Parallel lines have so much in common...
It's a shame they'll never meet.
_______ is the development of forest from destroyed soil, and _______ is the forest development from soil that is intact.
What are primary succession and secondary succession?
Nitrogen turns to ammonium, ammonium turns to nitrite, nitrite turns to nitrate.
What is ammonification?
13; >30
What was the 1975 and 2021 average MPG of cars in the US?
The level of Mono Lake dropped 15 feet in 30 years.
What is "the level of Mono Lake dropped 40 feet in 40 years"?
All ten terrestrial biomes.
What are tropical rainforest, tropical dry forest, temperate rainforest, temperate broadleaf forest, boreal coniferous forest, temperate grassland, tropical scrub forest and savanna, mediterranean, desert, tundra.
The factors that can cause extinctions are
both _______ (predictable) and _______ (random and unpredictable).
What are deterministic and stochastic?
The difference between gross and net primary productivity
What is respiration?
378,000; 148,000; 230,000.
What is Births, Deaths, and more people per day?
A woman asked her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk. And if they have eggs, get a dozen!" Later, he comes back with twelve cartons of milk. The wife asks him why he bought twelve cartons of milk and he replied, "They had eggs."
Solar flex is the different amounts of sunlight that reach different parts of Earth.
What is "Solar flux is the different amounts of sunlight that reach different parts of Earth"?
Gregory Gause experimented with these two species in 1934.
What are Paramecium caudatum and P. aurelia?
These are the two aquatic biomes.
What are freshwater and marine?
Would you like to hear a sodium hydride joke? NaH
Would you like to hear a sodium hypobromite joke? NaBrO!
Each of the ways in which a keystone species can interact with their environment.
What are irreplaceable pollinators,
habitat modifiers, and species whose individual
biological processes play an important community
function?
2,650; 403; 8
What are the mean residence times of water in the oceans, terrestrial water, and atmosphere?
The range of energy efficiency in a food web is from 50-100%, with an average of 65%.
What is "the range of energy efficiency in a food web is from 5-20%, with an average of around 10%.