Producers Autotrophic- make their own food Convert energy from the sun through photosynthesis Phytoplankton- Small plant organisms that drift water currents and use carbon dioxide‚ release oxygen and convert minerals through a form animals can use most abundant and widespread producers in the marine environment Consumers Heterotrophic- cannot make their own food‚ consume other organisms or absorb dissolved material herbivores or carnivores Decomposers Bacteria that break down dead
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The Savanna A Savanna is a grassland ecosystem characterized by being sufficiently spaced so that the canopy does not close. Savannas are also characterized by seasonal water availability‚ with the majority of rainfall confined to one season. Savannas are associated with several types of biomes. Savannas are frequently in a traditional zone between forest and desert or grassland. The Savanna covers approximately 20% of the earth’s area. The Savannas is a wet and dry climate‚tropical savanna monthly
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Introduction to Marketing Unit 8: Business and Society Portfolio (20 Points) In Unit 8‚ you learned about business and society. Now‚ you’ll apply what you learned. 1. Describe at least one global trend that you think offers a business opportunity in the global marketplace. (1-5 sentences. 2 points) Answer: Cell phones‚ computers‚ and xboxs are just naming a few global trends that offers the business opportunity in the global marketplace. 2. Describe at least three risks a company might face
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Environmental Systems and Societies Revision for test week Ecosystems – “An assemblage of parts working together forming a functioning whole.” “A community of independent organisms and the physical environment they inhabit.” All systems have many small parts working together. A system can be living (BIOTIC FACTORS) or non-living (ABIOTIC FACTORS) and has inputs as well as outputs. A system can be an abstract concept as well as something tangible. All systems have: * STORAGES * FLOWS
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organisms- turtle and dove‚ cheetah and zebra‚ lion and frog‚ and snake and frog respectively. The parasite and host relationship constitutes as a biotic factory. An example of this is the squirrel‚ the host and the fleas‚ the parasite. There exists mutualism in Etosha. The mother fox finds bugs on its young ones and this provides food for the mothers. The bugs use the mother to live on and to live off of. Therefore‚ each organism benefits from their relationship. Competition exists between male bullfrogs
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off the farm‚ however‚ they would do nothing to the badger because they enjoyed watching the badger and he was not scared of the people. They could not harm him because they enjoyed having his company while they gardened. This would be called a mutualism relationship because they both benefit. The badger and snake give something to the people and the people allow the animal to stay
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Mutualism: Fig wasps and fig trees Fig wasps (Agaonidae) are a species of wasps that have a life span of a couple of days and could be as little as 2mm in length. Hence the name these wasps are sole pollinators of fig trees (Ficus)‚ each fig tree species has its own particular wasp for pollination. Fig trees are totally dependent on fig wasps for pollination and have been for the past 60 million years‚ this shows that this process of pollinating is efficient and sustainable creating equilibrium
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Justin A. Garcia Ms M. McKenzie English IV AP‚ Period 8 May 15‚ 2014 Anotated Bibliography Knox‚ Paul D. "Okay Means Okay": Ideology and Survival in Cormac Mccarthy ’s‚ The Road. 4th ser. vol 70 Issue 2 (2012): 96-99. EBSCOhost. Web. 15 May 2014. . A literary critique is presented of the post-apocalyptic novel "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy‚ focusing on the ideologies of the two main characters and how they came to adopt them. The author suggests that the characters see a binary world of good
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Exam 1 Review BIO 130: Introduction to Environmental Science Unit 1 Be able to define an environmental factor. There are two types (condition and resource). What is the difference between a condition and a resource? Be able to categorize particular environmental factors as conditions OR resources (for example‚ temperature is a condition and not a resource). Be able to rank from smallest to largest: ecosystem‚ landscape‚ biome‚ biosphere Be able to rank from smallest to largest (in terms
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------------------------------------------------- SBI4UB ------------------------------------------------- Key Questions – Unit 5 Ahmad Moussaoui 57. a) The Canadian population is still growing despite its low birth rate because of a few factors. Canada is a developed country‚ with advances in public sanitation‚ medicine‚ and public health. All of which give Canada a low mortality rate. Immigration also plays a big part in Canada’s population growth‚ as Canada is considered by many to
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