CHAPTER 4: THE ORGANIZATION OF LIFE VOCABULARY LIST DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS FROM THE GLOSSARY: ECOSYSTEM: a community of organisms and their abiotic environment. BIOTIC FACTOR: an environmental factor that is associated with or results from the activities of living organisms (100) ABIOTIC FACTOR: describes the non-living part of the environment‚ including water‚ rocks‚ light‚ and temperature. ORGANISM: a living; anything that can carry out life processes
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the end of this century. 3. Mississippi River Delta‚ United States The great American river runs into the Gulf of Mexico. The rising of the sea level could destroy this landscape. 4. Komodo Island‚ Indonesia The home of the world’s most famous reptile could end under the water surface in few decades if the Global Warming continues to progress. The sea surrounding the island is growing and could cause extinction of the Komodo dragon. 5. Great Barrier Reef‚ Australia The delicate ecosystem of one
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Paul Gauguin was born in June 7‚ 1848‚ Paris‚ France and died May 8‚ 1903‚ Atuona‚ Hiva Oa‚ Marquesas Islands‚ French Polynesia. He is one of the leading French painters of the Post-impressionist period‚ whose development of a conceptual method of representation was a decisive step for 20th-century art. From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific‚ where his art work Under the Pandanus setting at. Under the Pandanus was painted shortly after Gauguin arrived on the
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In reviewing Vergil Suárez’s 1962 poem “Isla”‚ I find his use of imagery easy to relate to. The use of television shows such as The Three Stooges‚ Speed Racer‚ and Godzilla‚ to bring the reader to the level of the child by providing focal points which many can relate to is refreshing. I can remember many weekends when I would sit in front of a black & white and eventually color tv and watch these same shows as a child. Likewise‚ Suárez’s use of descriptive phrases helps to paint the picture of the
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Body I.-Overview of Dinosaurs Dinosaurs were‚ on a basic note‚ a species of reptiles that roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago. These creatures came in many shapes‚ sizes‚ and forms. Most of them had many means of defense against other dinosaurs‚ such as horns‚ tail clubs‚ armor‚ sheer size‚ and even razor sharp teeth
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bones along lakebeds and riverbanks for hundreds of years before the 18th century (Strauss). Many of the finds confused the Europeans since they could not wrap their heads around where the bones were coming from. The intact skeleton of the marine reptile‚ Mosasaurus‚ was incredibly important as naturalist Georges Cuvier identified it as belonging to an extinct species (Strauss). From this point on‚ rational scientists realized they were dealing with creatures that lived and died millions of years
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I. (Gain Attention) Lions and tigers and bears‚ oh my! The notion of seeing a lion running through your backyard or having a tiger in your bathroom might seem like the punch line of a joke or a scene from a comedy. But the possibility of either of these situations occurring is much more common than one may think. II. (Reveal Topic) Only eighteen states in the US currently have laws banning the ownership of all exotic species as pets. The other 32 allow the ownership of exotic species in some capacity
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murrelet - a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean. * Xeme - an artic fork-tailed gull. * Xenarthra - mammal in South America * Xenicidae (family of New Zealand wrens) * Xenopeltidae (family of reptiles including sunbeam snake- Xenopeltis) * Xenipirostris (genus of birds from Madagascar) * Xenops - a rain forest bird from the Americas * Xenopterygii (order of fishes including clingfishes) * Xenopus - a frog; toad * Xenurine -
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explains that man is the only animal to cruelly overindulge. Servants will slay 72 buffalo only for the earl to eat but one in its entirety and leave the 71 to rot. Yet when "seven young calves [are] turned into the anaconda’s cage... the grateful reptile...crushed one...then lay back satisfied"(647). He concludes that "the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t"(647). Twain also writes about how man covets and forcefully lusts for mates‚ he insists however that “Roosters keep harems‚ but it is by consent
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Study guide for bio112 exam #3 The Animals: General characteristics: 1. multicellular heterotrophs 2. Divers in form 3. No cell walls 4. Active movement 5. Sexual reproduction 6. Embryo development(zygote>morula>blastula>blastopore/gastrula) Parazoans VS Eumetazoans. Eumetazoans as triploblastic organisms. Eumetazoan 4 key body plans 1. Radial and bilateral symmetry 2. Body cavities(bilateral organisms only); General importance of(digestion/reproduction). Acoelomic
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