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What is the greatest threat to biodiversity?
Extinction
What is the definition of an island?
A piece of land completely surrounded by water.
What type of rock forms from the cooling of magma/lava?
Igneous Rock
What is the diet of primary consumers?
Plants
Describe what the plates are doing at a divergent boundary.
Moving apart from one another
What is the name of the pigment found in plants that turns them green?
Clorophyll
How does a decomposer get its energy?
By consuming dead and decaying organic matter
Which of the 3 types of rock were we researching from the Grand Canyon?
Sedimentary
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering breaks down rock into small pieces. Erosion carries those small pieces away.
What is the name of Mr. Cabot's gecko?
Pascal
Who is the first scientist to traverse and study the Grand Canyon? (all four of his names)
Major John Wesley Powell
What is the most dangerous type of volcano?
Strato or composite
How does a heterotroph get its energy?
By eating other living things
Name the types of rock that can form metamorphic rock?
All 3 types
Provide a real life example of reproductive environment as a limiting factor.
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Provide an example of an invasive species in the category of competitor and harasser.
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Name one Shield volcano.
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Provide a real-world example of chemical, physical, and biological weathering.
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Who is the famous chemist best known for discovering, studying, and then dying from radiation?
Marie Curie
Name a species that has not shown any evolution for over 450 million years.
Horshoe Crab, cockroach, platypus etc...