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Tropical Rain Forest

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Tropical Rain Forest Biome By: Sowmya Gannavaram Biome Description My Biome is a Tropical Rainforest. This is a very nice biome. It has many animals, plants, and wildlife. The Rainforest is one of the most unique biomes in the world. This would be a great place to go for people who like to see nature and like warm weather. You will now learn about this amazing biome. Where can Tropical Rainforests be found? Most Tropical Rainforests are found along the Equator. They are mostly in Central America, Africa, Madagascar, West Coast of India, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, and Australia. There are only 12 hours of daylight. Climate Description? The climate in the Tropical Rainforest, is very hot and wet.

AP BIOLOGY CH 26

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Chapter 26 The Tree of Life An Introduction to Biological Diversity Overview: Changing Life on a Changing Earth Life is a continuum Extending from the earliest organisms to the great variety of species that exist today Geological events that alter environments Change the course of biological evolution Conversely, life changes the planet that it inhabits Figure 26.1 Geologic history and biological history have been episodic Marked by what were in essence revolutions that opened many new ways of life Concept 26.1: Conditions on early Earth made the origin of life possible Most biologists now think that it is at least a credible hypothesis That chemical and physical processes on early Earth produced very simple cells through a sequence of stages

Campbell study guide introduction to evolution

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Chapter 22 pages 428 ? 430 What is the full name of the book that Darwin published and what was the date of publication? What are the four manners in which this book focused biologists? attention on the great diversity of organisms? What are the two points that Darwin made in his book? What is natural selection? What is the result of natural selection? In what two ways did this book ?rock the house,? in other words why was it truly radical? What was the conventional paradigm (the prevailing view) of life at the time of Darwin?s publication? Plato was one of the philosophers that had great influence on western culture. What was Plato?s view of life? How about Aristotle, what was his view? Explain the philosophy that dominated biology in the 1700s.

Geological Time Scale

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Eon Era Period Epoch Major Events Phanerozoic Cenozoic Quaternary (0-1.6 million yrs BP) Holocene (Present-10,000 yrs) Modern humans develop. Pleistocene Ice Age Interglacial. Pleistocene (10,000 -1,600,000 yrs) Pleistocene Ice Age. Extinction of many species of large mammals and birds. Tertiary Pliocene (1.6-5.3 million yrs) Development of hominid bipedalism. Cascade Mountains began forming. Climate cooling. Miocene (5.3-24 million yrs) Chimpanzee and hominid lines evolve. Extensive glaciation in Southern Hemisphere. Climate cooling. Oligocene (24-37 million yrs) Browsing mammals and many types of modern plants evolve. Creation of the Alps and Himalaya mountain chains. Volcanoes form in Rocky Mountains. Eocene
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