What do plants not need to fight for in order to survive?
Food as they can create their own using photosynthesis
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Surface area:volume for animals in cold climates?
Small surface area to volume to minimize heat loss
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Surface area:volume for animals in hot climates?
Large surface area to volume to maximize heat loss
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Where do lichens grow and why?
Exposed places such as rock or tree bark. They need to be good at absorbing water and nutriets to grow there
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What do Lichens do?
Sulfur dioxide damages them and prevents them from growing, in a place where no lichens are growing it shows that the air is heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide
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How do we know that water is polluted?
Many aquatic invertebrate animals cannot survive in polluted water so their presence or absence indicates the extent to which a body of water is polluted
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What do pyramids of biomass show?
The mass of living material at each stage in a chain.
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What do green plants and algae do to the suns light energy and when does this happen?
Absorb the suns light energy and transfer this into chemical energy
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What do plants not need to fight for in order to survive?
Back
Food as they can create their own using photosynthesis
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