Terms | Definitions | Pacific island groups: | Micronesia‚ Melanesia‚ Polynesia | (Pacific) Micronesia means- | small islands | (Pacific) Melanesia means- | black islands | (Pacific) Polynesia means- | many islands | (Pacific) Divided into high islands and low islands based on- | physical characteristics | High Islands- | mountains created by tectonic forces‚ volcanoes and earth quakes | Low Islands- | coral reef | Coral Reef- | formed from living coral polyps accumulating over time
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AP Biology Name: Chapter 51 Guided Reading 1. How do behavioral ecologists define behavior? Behavioral ecologists define behavior as everything an animal does and how it does it 2. What is the focus of: a. Proximate questions of behavior? Focuses on the environmental stimuli‚ if any‚ that trigger a particular behavioral act‚ as well as the genetic‚ physiological‚ and anatomical mechanisms underlying it. b. Ultimate questions of behavior? Focuses on the evolutionary significance
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What is geography? Geography is the study of earth and its characteristics. Geography tells a story through it history‚ music‚ movies and many more. By knowing the importance or the beginning of your heritage and where it all began at one point of time. With geography it shows how the world began to develop and change over the period of time‚ and the beginning of a new generation. Geography is an identity for countries that goes or went poverty because they are being isolated from society‚ or it’s
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Chp. 4 Biology Study Guide Page 1 8/30/2011 BIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE CHAPTER 4– THE CHEMICAL BASIS OF LIFE Matter = anything that takes up space and has mass (major types of matter = solid‚ liquid‚ and gas) Any type of matter is made of one or more elements. o Element = a substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by regular chemical processes. (examples: gold‚ silver‚ mercury‚ etc.) There are approximately 25 elements necessary for life. • Examples: oxygen‚ carbon‚ hydrogen‚
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Chapter 8 Outline -In 1997‚ the newly elected Labor party in London gave the Scots (and the Welsh) the opportunity to vote- not for independence‚ but for devolution. They both voted in favor‚ taking a major devolutionary step in one of Europe’s oldest and most stable unitary states. - Scotland’s new autonomous status has not necessarily fueled greater calls for independence. - At the heart of most devolutionary moments however‚ is a strong sense of ethnocultural or economic difference and when
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Chapter 9 Study Guide 1. Explain the difference between aerobic respiration and fermentation. Fermentation is partial degradation of sugars that occurs without oxygen. Aerobic respiration consumes organic molecules and oxygen and yields ATP. 2. Diagram for photosynthesis and respiration 3. What are redox reactions? What is the difference between reduction and oxidation reactions? Redox reactions are chemical reactions that transfer between reactants. In oxidation‚ a substance loses
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Geographic factors often play a major role in a nation’s historical‚ political‚ social‚ and economic development. Geography is a study of the earths features such as its land‚ rocks‚ oceans‚ etc. The earth consists of many geographic features such as peninsulas‚ desserts‚ mountains‚ rain forests‚ archipelagos and etc. Two geographic features that impacted the development of Russia and Egypt are river valleys and lack of warm water ports. The lack of warm water ports has had a negative effect
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Vocabulary: • Geography: Geography is the study of the distribution and interaction of physical and human features on earth. o Physical features are like bodies of water‚ landforms‚ climate‚ and natural fertility of soil. Human features are man made things‚ anything constructed by humans. • Physical characteristics: Include the description of the natural landforms of a place such as mountains‚ rivers‚ beaches‚ landscape‚ animals‚ and plant life. • Human (cultural) characteristics: Include the human designed
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Chapter 1- 2 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: THEMES IN THE STUDY OF LIFE OBJECTIVES Exploring Life on Its Many Levels 1. Briefly describe the unifying themes that characterize the biological sciences. 1. The cell an organism’s basic unit of structure and function 2. Heritable information: the inheritance of biological information in the form of DNA which is encoded in the nucleotide sequence of DNA. 3. Emergent properties: emerge as a result of interaction among components at the
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Question 1 In a resting state‚ the axon is polarized‚ with mostly positively charged ions outside and negatively charged ions inside. Question 2 In the brain‚ learning occurs as experience strengthens certain connections in cell work groups called neural networks. Question 3 When the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another (such as heredity)‚ we say there is a(n) ________ between the two factors. interaction Question 4 Chromosomes are composed of a coiled
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