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What is biodiversity
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the difference between and among species
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are ecosystems hierarchal?
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no
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name three ways that biodiversity is measured and explain them
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species richness - simple species countmean species abundance - the mean abundance of...
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What type of organism has the most types of species
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insects
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are cold or warm places more likely to be hotspots for biodiversity?
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warm
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Name the two largest contributers to human destruction of natural systems
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1. habitat destruction - we wipe out forrests2. species introduction - we bring species that...
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What is a bottleneck effect
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When a large portion of a species is killed. the resulting group from the species is much less...
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what is a confounding variable
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a variable that is not the independant x variable that unintentionally effects the outcome...
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