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weevil BRING Parmelia LICHEN twig is a COMMUNITY room 1307 laptop cabinet has lichen.
biomes-terrestrial Bring METER stick: Chicago rainfall: < 1m. Deadliest Catch=Bering Sea crabs; Coniferous=biogeography; penguins antarctic
BBC-PlanetEarth/3.3_ShallowSeas 1:20 Humpback calf drinks 500 l milk/day in tropic; 44 reach poles, 45:10 5M Shearwaters
4:10 Coral reef
biomes-aquatic non-flowing=stagnant mosquitoes. Great Salt Lake landlocked 30KYA evaporated from Lake Bonneville
energy_flow This is GOPHER large yellow incisors, not GROUNDHOG white small teeth. Are you HERBIVORE carnivore, omnivore? Trophic cascade in Yellowstone: wolves and deer and forests and rivers
energy_pyramid Bring ANCHOVIES sardines. How much food have you eaten?
decomposers Mold=Penicillin on orange. Anyone a DETRITIVORE do you eat chicken, lettuce/cucumber? A golden detritivore: this top carnivore also scavenges on carrion Operation Dung Beetle: decomposer or detritivore? (David Attenborough)
parasite DoQ parasite is consumer! Are YOU a parasite? Financial assistance from parents
Zombie Snails BBC-PlanetEarth/3.2_Jungles/#26:10 Cordyceps fungus Cordyceps: a killer fungus: is it a decomposer? Parasite? Lancet fluke: mind control parasite
food_web Hawk on squirrel, muskrat? Raccoon or snake. Who eats human?
cycle_water Pure water in a bottle: can you escape the water cycle?
cycle_carbon SKIP N & P cycles. WATER cycle: fish PEE get VIRGIN water from transpiration!
Carbon 87 ppm=0.04%. Incomplete cycle: some carbon locked in SUGAR cellulose! Carboniferous 360-300 MYA fossil fuels.
Deepwater Horizon 2010. Dakota Access Pipeline fracking oil -> IL. XL tar sands viscous bitumen.
Alaska North Slope -> Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Fossil Fuels 101: how they were formed Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling for Natural Gas (Chevron infomercial) Extracting oil sands for the Keystone XL pipeline (Washington Post)
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