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Earth's tilt is nearly
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15.5º
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20º
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23.5º
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30º
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Water's high _________________ allows it to store a lot of energy.
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storage potential
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heat capacity
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potential gradient
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solar capacity
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Global physical gradients on Earth arise from all of the following except
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Earth's spin
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Latitude
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Precipitation
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Earth's orbit around the Sun
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Earth's tilt
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You would probably find the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) where near the summer solstice?
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The Tropic of Capricorn (23.5º S)
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The South Pole (90ºS)
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The Equator (0º)
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The Tropic of Cancer (23.5º N)
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Warm currents are most often found on __________ ocean boundaries.
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Northern
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Southern
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Western
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Eastern
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Short-term global cycles like El Nino involve periodic variations in what?
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Sea-surface temperatures
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Wind patterns
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Atmospheric circulation cells
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Sea-surface temperatures and wind patterns
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Wind patterns and atmospheric circulation cells
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Glacial climates in the Pleistocene tended to be...
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Cool and dry
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Cool and wet
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Warm and dry
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Warm and wet
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During the *initial* cycles of glaciation and melting in the Pleistocene, extinctions were more common in...
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Animals
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Plants
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Both
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Neither
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A planet with a greater tilt than Earth's would most likely have what kind of seasons?
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Milder
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Stronger
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About the same as Earth's
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No seasons at all
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Humid air _________ dry air.
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is heavier than
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is lighter than
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weighs the same as
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Global precipitation patterns are driven by all of the following except
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temperature
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ocean currents
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local topography
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wind patterns
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Topography and global precipitation patterns together determine
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regional climate
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surface energy input
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rate of continental drift
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the degree of Earth's tilt
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Alexander von Humboldt was one of the first to note the abiding biogeographic principle that elevational gradients are analogous to
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altitudinal gradients
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latitudinal gradients
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longitudinal gradients
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The theory of island biogeography would consider all of the following except
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An island in the ocean
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A mountain range surrounded by lowlands
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A series of low, grassy hills
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A city surrounded by forest
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Plants can move sap (and the nutrients within it) against the pull of gravity in part because of water's
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high surface tension
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high heat capacity
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high heat conduction
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How much of Earth's global water is freshwater?
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About 10%
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About 5.5%
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About 2.5%
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About 1%
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Infiltration is
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the movement of aboveground water belowground
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the movement of belowground water aboveground
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the movement of water on the Earth's surface
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the emptying of rivers and streams into the ocean
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All of these affect water's ability to infiltrate except
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soil saturation
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land cover
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soil characteristics
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land shape
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What is the primary driver of Earth's water cycle?
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Hadley cells
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the intertropical convergence zone
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evaporation
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global climate
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Transpiration occurs when plants lose water in the form of
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water vapor
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liquid water
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frozen water
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_____________ is responsible for cloud formation
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Infiltration
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Precipitation
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Condensation
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Transpiration
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Why are arid environments likely to occur on the leeward slopes of near-ocean mountain ranges?
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The rain shadow effect
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Those mountains are most often at 30º N and S
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The spin of the Earth
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Ecoregion gradients
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Seeds that exhibit serotiny only germinate when
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they "know" the Earth's tilt has changed
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they're triggered by some external factor
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they are affected by the Coriolis effect
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The only mass extinction for which science is pretty sure it knows the cause is
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the end-Ordovician
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the end-Triassic
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the end-Cretaceous
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the end-Permian
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Our class definition of biogeography includes all of the following except
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...the study of distributions...
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...of biodiversity...
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...globally...
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...over space and time...
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When it comes to biogeographic patterns, this scale is most important
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global
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local
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regional
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all scales are important to biogeographic patterns
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The lithosphere includes
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all of Earth's water, including oceans, freshwater, and the water cycle
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the layers of gases that surround the Earth's surface
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the Earth's rocky crust, including the geographic template
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the zone of life on Earth
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In the Greek tradition, which of these might we call the central question of biogeography?
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How are organisms distributed around the world?
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Do organisms change over time?
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Are organisms at certain latitudes the same as organisms at certain altitudes?
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Charles Darwin based his theory of evolution by means of natural selection on several key pieces of evidence. Which of these were not included?
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Comparison of fossils with existing, similarly-shaped organisms
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Studying finches and tortoises in the Galapagos
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Observing giraffes in African savannas
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Wegener's theory of continental drift relies on all of the following pieces of evidence except
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Landmasses fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.
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Geological similarity between matching sides of continents.
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Elevational similarities in mountain ranges between continents that appear to fit together.
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Fossil similarities between matching sides of continents.
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Plants that colonize new land that may one day be a new ecosystem require all of the following except
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Carbon
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Herbivores
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Nutrients
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Water
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Sky islands and tepuis are both types of
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mainland islands
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exterior islands
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isolation islands
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endemic islands
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