Answer:
D
Explanation:
Comets are brightest near the sun.
A horseshoe crab has been around for almost 500 million years. They are classified as arthropods and not actual crabs. However, There are many reasons that have helped them survive this long including, they can eat almost any organic matter. There blood is different from normal, in fact it’s blue. This blood helps them heal any wounds right away. They can also live in areas with very low levels of oxygen, meaning habitat is not a big issue for them. Evolution has also helped them grow and adapt seeing as they’ve survived this long.
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B. If there were no greenhouse effect, liquid water would not exist on the surface of the Earth
D. The Earth has reached thermal equilibrium, emitting the same amount of energy into space as it absorbs from the Sun.
E. The more carbon dioxide there is in an atmosphere, the stronger the greenhouse effect will be
Explanation:
The greenhouse effect plays major role in the climate of our planet in diverse ways:
- it is responsible for the existence of liquid water on the surface of the earth.
- it allows the earth to reach an equilibrium with space in exchange of thermal energy.
- carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has huge roles.
The greenhouse effects results from the abundance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. These gases are able to prevent long wave solar radiation from leaving the surface of the earth. When the gases interacts with the radiation, it produces heat that warms the earth surface. Examples of these gases are carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor e.t.c.
The warming of the surface helps to free freshwater trapped as ice and keeps it in the liquid form throughout.
In this exchange of energy, there is a balance between the amount of heat absorbed and radiated back into the atmosphere. As energy enters the earth, it is also radiated out into space. This helps to keep the earth temperature in balance.
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Answer:
8. D
9. A
10. A
11. C
12. D
Explanation:
8. Natural selection works on variation that exists in the genes of organisms. Antelopes who have genetic variation that makes their legs more muscular are at an advantage because they can outrun predators. This increases the chance that they will reach reproductive age, and be able to pass this advantageous trait onto their offspring. Over time, this selection pressure makes the variant more common in a population.
9. Beneficial traits are those that give a selective advantage. This could be one that helps it outrun predators (like above), avoid illness and death, gives it a reproductive advantage (i.e. more attractive to mates), or makes it better able to digest certain foods, for example. The formation of cancer cells would be harmful for an organism, reducing its fitness and perhaps leading to death. The inability to reproduce would mean genetic info is not passed on to the next generation, and stopping the production of an essential protein would likely lead to death. However, resistance to a virus would help an organism avoid illness and death, improving fitness.
10. Genotypes are what organisms inherit from their parents, i.e. the genetic information that is passed on. However, the way in which different alleles interact and are expressed is the phenotype. If we take the above example, natural selection is acting on the phenotype of muscular legs. If an antelope had the muscular leg genotype but for some reason it was not being expressed (maybe another gene is interfering with it), then the antelope would not have a selective advantage, and natural selection could not be act on the trait.
11. A trait that better suits an organism to its environment will be selected for by natural selection. This is because that organism is more likely to survive due to the trait, giving it a selective advantage. Therefore, if a mutation arose making the giraffe more adapted to the environment, it would be positively selected for, and through evolution would become more common.
12. This is an example of selective breeding, which has been happening for generations. Farmers spot desirable traits, and cross horses with these traits in an attempt to enhance the trait or to ensure it is passed on to the next generation. This is not natural selection, because farmers are making it happen artificially. It is not cloning or recombinant DNA, which are terms scientists use for actually manipulating the DNA in the lab.
