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Ecology is limited to field studies and does not use experimental studies
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False
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Temperate forests of the Southeastern US are underlain by utisols which are wealking acidic and contain moderate base cations.
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False
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Temperate grasslands are underlain by mollisols which are exposed to medium rainfall, are dark and contain low base cations.
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False
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Redox accumulations can be found in Histosols and indicate saturated soil conditions.
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False
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Margaret Davis was the first woman ecologist and recognized that technology adn development were effecting the environoment.
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False
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The C horizion is considered part of the regolith and is also included in the solum.
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False
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Earnst Haeckel coinded the term "ecosystem" in 1935
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False
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Timing of precipitation with respect temperature variations is more important than amount of precipitation for affecting distribution of organisms.
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True
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Because animals are mobile and plants are not, the distribution of animals is not influenced by spatial variations in precipitation.
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False
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When a warm Galapagos lizard jumps into the cold ocean its body temperature decreases because the cold from the ocean is conducted into its body
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False
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Ectothermic poikilotherms dont generate metabolic heat and are considered to be cold blooded and they dont lose heat by the process of radiation.
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False
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In large rivers allochthonous inputs are a significant source of engery.
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True
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The benthic macroinvertebrate component whihc remains constant moving from headwaters to large rivers are
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Collectors and predators
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80% of light is absorbed within this zone
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Epipalagic
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Who inputs carbon to estuarine waters from mangrove swamps area where chemical factors change rapidly with depth.
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Mussles, fiddler crabs, cordgrass, atlantic white cedar
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