Geography
This is the longest mountain range in the world above sea level (in South America).
What are the Andes Mountains?
What is norepinephrine?
Neurotransmitter that influences alertness, stress response, and our flight-or-flight response.
This is the top layer of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates and photosynthesis can occur.
What is the epipelagic zone?
What is tangible support?
Answer-dependent
Animals with backbones are called this.
What are vertebrates?
This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Which of these remarks is false (more than one):
1-Mental illness only affects your thoughts, not your body.
2-Brain scans can show physical differences in people with depression.
3-People with depression just need to think more positively
1 and 3
This phenomenon, involving a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean, disrupts weather worldwide.
What is El Niño?
What are 2 examples of informational support?
Answer dependent
Animals that are active at night are known as nocturnal; animals that are active during the day are known as
What is diurnal?
This tectonic plate is the largest on Earth.
What is the Pacific Plate?
Pleasure, reward, and motivation is governed by which neurotransmitter
Dopamine
These microscopic plant-like organisms form the base of the oceanic food chain.
What are phytoplankton?
What is urge surfing?
a technique for managing your unwanted behaviors. Rather than giving in to an urge, you will ride it out, like a surfer riding a wave. After a short time, the urge will pass on its own.
This protein makes up the hair, feathers, and hooves of many animals.
What is keratin?
This country has the most volcanoes in the world.
What is Indonesia?
This neurotransmitter is associated with calming and reduces neural activity.
GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid)
These large, circular ocean current systems are found in each major ocean basin.
What are gyres?
For urge surfing, what are 3 examples of delay and distraction which will help weaken the urge over time?
Answer-dependent
This is the largest land animal on Earth.
What is African Elephant?
This African nation completely surrounds the country of Lesotho.
What is South Africa?
What is Glutamate?
a neurotransmitter which influences learning and memory.
Also called the “midnight zone,” this ocean layer receives no sunlight.
What is the bathypelagic zone?
At the peak of the urge (in urge surfing), what happens?
PEAK: The urge reaches its most intense point. It may feel as if the urge will never go away.
This type of learning occurs when an animal forms an attachment during a critical early period.
What is imprinting?