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Infrared
Near-infrared is the region closest in wavelength to the radiation detectable by the human eye, mid- and far-infrared are progressively further from the visible spectrum. Other definitions follow different physical mechanisms (emission peaks, vs. bands, water absorption) and the newest follow technical reasons (the com...
In micrometers, when do common silicon detectors cease to be sensitive?
{ "answer_start": [ 365 ], "text": [ "1,050" ] }
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Infrared
Near-infrared is the region closest in wavelength to the radiation detectable by the human eye, mid- and far-infrared are progressively further from the visible spectrum. Other definitions follow different physical mechanisms (emission peaks, vs. bands, water absorption) and the newest follow technical reasons (the com...
What is the lowest level of sensitivity, in micrometers, for InGaAs?
{ "answer_start": [ 416 ], "text": [ "950" ] }
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Infrared
Heat is energy in transit that flows due to temperature difference. Unlike heat transmitted by thermal conduction or thermal convection, thermal radiation can propagate through a vacuum. Thermal radiation is characterized by a particular spectrum of many wavelengths that is associated with emission from an object, due ...
What is the term for transit energy flowing as a result of differences in temperature?
{ "answer_start": [ 0 ], "text": [ "Heat" ] }
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Infrared
Heat is energy in transit that flows due to temperature difference. Unlike heat transmitted by thermal conduction or thermal convection, thermal radiation can propagate through a vacuum. Thermal radiation is characterized by a particular spectrum of many wavelengths that is associated with emission from an object, due ...
What type of heat transmission can propagate through a vacuum?
{ "answer_start": [ 137 ], "text": [ "thermal radiation" ] }
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Infrared
Heat is energy in transit that flows due to temperature difference. Unlike heat transmitted by thermal conduction or thermal convection, thermal radiation can propagate through a vacuum. Thermal radiation is characterized by a particular spectrum of many wavelengths that is associated with emission from an object, due ...
What object emits thermal radiation in the X-ray spectrum?
{ "answer_start": [ 608 ], "text": [ "the solar corona" ] }
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Infrared
Heat is energy in transit that flows due to temperature difference. Unlike heat transmitted by thermal conduction or thermal convection, thermal radiation can propagate through a vacuum. Thermal radiation is characterized by a particular spectrum of many wavelengths that is associated with emission from an object, due ...
The visible, ultraviolet and X-ray spectra are all above what spectrum?
{ "answer_start": [ 531 ], "text": [ "infrared" ] }
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Infrared
Thermographic cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 900–14,000 nanometers or 0.9–14 μm) and produce images of that radiation. Since infrared radiation is emitted by all objects based on their temperatures, according to the black body radiation law, thermography makes it...
What is the range of the electromagnetic spectrum in micrometers?
{ "answer_start": [ 127 ], "text": [ "0.9–14" ] }
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Infrared
Thermographic cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 900–14,000 nanometers or 0.9–14 μm) and produce images of that radiation. Since infrared radiation is emitted by all objects based on their temperatures, according to the black body radiation law, thermography makes it...
In nanometers, what is the electromagnetic spectrum's range?
{ "answer_start": [ 102 ], "text": [ "900–14,000" ] }
570ba229ec8fbc190045ba98
Infrared
Thermographic cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 900–14,000 nanometers or 0.9–14 μm) and produce images of that radiation. Since infrared radiation is emitted by all objects based on their temperatures, according to the black body radiation law, thermography makes it...
What law states that infrared radiation is emitted by objects based on temperature?
{ "answer_start": [ 269 ], "text": [ "the black body radiation law" ] }
570ba229ec8fbc190045ba99
Infrared
Thermographic cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 900–14,000 nanometers or 0.9–14 μm) and produce images of that radiation. Since infrared radiation is emitted by all objects based on their temperatures, according to the black body radiation law, thermography makes it...
What happens to the amount of radiation an object emits as temperature increases?
{ "answer_start": [ 440 ], "text": [ "increases" ] }
570ba229ec8fbc190045ba9a
Infrared
Thermographic cameras detect radiation in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (roughly 900–14,000 nanometers or 0.9–14 μm) and produce images of that radiation. Since infrared radiation is emitted by all objects based on their temperatures, according to the black body radiation law, thermography makes it...
What type of cameras see infrared radiation?
{ "answer_start": [ 0 ], "text": [ "Thermographic" ] }
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Infrared
The infrared portion of the spectrum has several useful benefits for astronomers. Cold, dark molecular clouds of gas and dust in our galaxy will glow with radiated heat as they are irradiated by imbedded stars. Infrared can also be used to detect protostars before they begin to emit visible light. Stars emit a smaller ...
What irradiates clouds of gas in the galaxy and makes them glow?
{ "answer_start": [ 195 ], "text": [ "imbedded stars" ] }
570ba2b3ec8fbc190045baa1
Infrared
The infrared portion of the spectrum has several useful benefits for astronomers. Cold, dark molecular clouds of gas and dust in our galaxy will glow with radiated heat as they are irradiated by imbedded stars. Infrared can also be used to detect protostars before they begin to emit visible light. Stars emit a smaller ...
What can be detected via infrared prior to their emitting visible light?
{ "answer_start": [ 247 ], "text": [ "protostars" ] }
570ba2b3ec8fbc190045baa2
Infrared
The infrared portion of the spectrum has several useful benefits for astronomers. Cold, dark molecular clouds of gas and dust in our galaxy will glow with radiated heat as they are irradiated by imbedded stars. Infrared can also be used to detect protostars before they begin to emit visible light. Stars emit a smaller ...
What objects emit less of their energy as infrared light versus visible light?
{ "answer_start": [ 299 ], "text": [ "Stars" ] }
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Infrared
Infrared is used in night vision equipment when there is insufficient visible light to see. Night vision devices operate through a process involving the conversion of ambient light photons into electrons that are then amplified by a chemical and electrical process and then converted back into visible light. Infrared li...
What sort of equipment uses the infrared spectrum in the absence of sufficient visible light?
{ "answer_start": [ 20 ], "text": [ "night vision" ] }
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Infrared
Infrared is used in night vision equipment when there is insufficient visible light to see. Night vision devices operate through a process involving the conversion of ambient light photons into electrons that are then amplified by a chemical and electrical process and then converted back into visible light. Infrared li...
What do night vision devices convert ambient light photons into?
{ "answer_start": [ 194 ], "text": [ "electrons" ] }
570ba2ff6b8089140040f9ca
Infrared
Infrared is used in night vision equipment when there is insufficient visible light to see. Night vision devices operate through a process involving the conversion of ambient light photons into electrons that are then amplified by a chemical and electrical process and then converted back into visible light. Infrared li...
Along with a chemical process, what type of process is used by night vision devices to convert infrared into visible light?
{ "answer_start": [ 246 ], "text": [ "electrical" ] }
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Infrared
IR data transmission is also employed in short-range communication among computer peripherals and personal digital assistants. These devices usually conform to standards published by IrDA, the Infrared Data Association. Remote controls and IrDA devices use infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit infrared radiatio...
What is the IrDA?
{ "answer_start": [ 189 ], "text": [ "the Infrared Data Association" ] }
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Infrared
IR data transmission is also employed in short-range communication among computer peripherals and personal digital assistants. These devices usually conform to standards published by IrDA, the Infrared Data Association. Remote controls and IrDA devices use infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit infrared radiatio...
What does the acronym LEDs stand for?
{ "answer_start": [ 266 ], "text": [ "light-emitting diodes" ] }
570baa0f6b8089140040f9d0
Infrared
IR data transmission is also employed in short-range communication among computer peripherals and personal digital assistants. These devices usually conform to standards published by IrDA, the Infrared Data Association. Remote controls and IrDA devices use infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit infrared radiatio...
What is a term for when something is switched on and off?
{ "answer_start": [ 388 ], "text": [ "modulated" ] }
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Infrared
IR data transmission is also employed in short-range communication among computer peripherals and personal digital assistants. These devices usually conform to standards published by IrDA, the Infrared Data Association. Remote controls and IrDA devices use infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit infrared radiatio...
What device is used to transform infrared radiation into an electric current?
{ "answer_start": [ 465 ], "text": [ "silicon photodiode" ] }
570baa0f6b8089140040f9d2
Infrared
IR data transmission is also employed in short-range communication among computer peripherals and personal digital assistants. These devices usually conform to standards published by IrDA, the Infrared Data Association. Remote controls and IrDA devices use infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit infrared radiatio...
Why does infrared not cause trouble for devices in adjacent rooms?
{ "answer_start": [ 775 ], "text": [ "IR does not penetrate walls" ] }
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Infrared
In the semiconductor industry, infrared light can be used to characterize materials such as thin films and periodic trench structures. By measuring the reflectance of light from the surface of a semiconductor wafer, the index of refraction (n) and the extinction Coefficient (k) can be determined via the Forouhi-Bloomer...
What letter represents the index of refraction?
{ "answer_start": [ 241 ], "text": [ "n" ] }
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Infrared
In the semiconductor industry, infrared light can be used to characterize materials such as thin films and periodic trench structures. By measuring the reflectance of light from the surface of a semiconductor wafer, the index of refraction (n) and the extinction Coefficient (k) can be determined via the Forouhi-Bloomer...
What letter represents the extinction Coefficient?
{ "answer_start": [ 276 ], "text": [ "k" ] }
570baaabec8fbc190045baa8
Infrared
In the semiconductor industry, infrared light can be used to characterize materials such as thin films and periodic trench structures. By measuring the reflectance of light from the surface of a semiconductor wafer, the index of refraction (n) and the extinction Coefficient (k) can be determined via the Forouhi-Bloomer...
What equations are used to figure out the index of refraction and extinction Coefficient?
{ "answer_start": [ 305 ], "text": [ "Forouhi-Bloomer dispersion" ] }
570baaabec8fbc190045baa9
Infrared
In the semiconductor industry, infrared light can be used to characterize materials such as thin films and periodic trench structures. By measuring the reflectance of light from the surface of a semiconductor wafer, the index of refraction (n) and the extinction Coefficient (k) can be determined via the Forouhi-Bloomer...
Along with critical dimension and depth, what can the infrared light reflectance be used to determine in regard to high aspect ratio trench structures?
{ "answer_start": [ 448 ], "text": [ "sidewall angle" ] }
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Infrared
In the semiconductor industry, infrared light can be used to characterize materials such as thin films and periodic trench structures. By measuring the reflectance of light from the surface of a semiconductor wafer, the index of refraction (n) and the extinction Coefficient (k) can be determined via the Forouhi-Bloomer...
What reflectance is measured from a semiconductor wafer's surface to determine the index of refraction?
{ "answer_start": [ 167 ], "text": [ "light" ] }
570bab20ec8fbc190045bab0
Infrared
Infrared cleaning is a technique used by some Motion picture film scanner, film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan. It works by collecting an additional infrared channel from the scan at the same position and resolution as the three visible color ch...
What is the name of the technique used in scanners to minimize the effects of dust and scratches?
{ "answer_start": [ 0 ], "text": [ "Infrared cleaning" ] }
570bab20ec8fbc190045bab1
Infrared
Infrared cleaning is a technique used by some Motion picture film scanner, film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan. It works by collecting an additional infrared channel from the scan at the same position and resolution as the three visible color ch...
Along with red and blue, what is the third visible color channel?
{ "answer_start": [ 333 ], "text": [ "green" ] }
570bab20ec8fbc190045bab2
Infrared
Infrared cleaning is a technique used by some Motion picture film scanner, film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan. It works by collecting an additional infrared channel from the scan at the same position and resolution as the three visible color ch...
Along with replacement via inpainting, what procedure is used in infrared cleaning to remove the effect of scratches and dust?
{ "answer_start": [ 515 ], "text": [ "scaling" ] }
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Infrared
Infrared cleaning is a technique used by some Motion picture film scanner, film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan. It works by collecting an additional infrared channel from the scan at the same position and resolution as the three visible color ch...
Along with the visible light channels, what channel is used to locate scratches and dust in scanners?
{ "answer_start": [ 355 ], "text": [ "infrared" ] }
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Infrared
Earth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlorofluorocarbons, a...
Along with the surface of the Earth, what objects absorb radiation from the sun?
{ "answer_start": [ 24 ], "text": [ "clouds" ] }
570baba0ec8fbc190045bab9
Infrared
Earth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlorofluorocarbons, a...
After Earth surface's absorbs radiation, in what spectrum is much of it re-emitted?
{ "answer_start": [ 117 ], "text": [ "infrared" ] }
570baba0ec8fbc190045baba
Infrared
Earth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlorofluorocarbons, a...
Along with water vapor, what atmospheric substance primarily absorbs the infrared emitted by the Earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 192 ], "text": [ "cloud droplets" ] }
570baba0ec8fbc190045babb
Infrared
Earth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlorofluorocarbons, a...
What notable warming effect does the presence of infrared absorbers contribute to?
{ "answer_start": [ 412 ], "text": [ "greenhouse" ] }
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in differen...
What term refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 0 ], "text": [ "Biodiversity" ] }
570bc0386b8089140040fa0b
Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in differen...
What types of variations does Biodiversity refer to?
{ "answer_start": [ 352 ], "text": [ "genetic variation, ecosystem variation, or species variation" ] }
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in differen...
What type of biodiversity happens near the equator?
{ "answer_start": [ 467 ], "text": [ "Terrestrial biodiversity" ] }
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in differen...
Where on Earth is biodiversity the most abundnant?
{ "answer_start": [ 659 ], "text": [ "It is richest in the tropics." ] }
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a contraction of "biological diversity," generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organisms present in differen...
Where is sea surface temperature the highest?
{ "answer_start": [ 729 ], "text": [ "along coasts in the Western Pacific" ] }
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Biodiversity
This multilevel construct is consistent with Dasmann and Lovejoy. An explicit definition consistent with this interpretation was first given in a paper by Bruce A. Wilcox commissioned by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) for the 1982 World National Parks Conference. Wil...
Who is the author of the biodiversity research paper?
{ "answer_start": [ 155 ], "text": [ "Bruce A. Wilcox" ] }
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Biodiversity
This multilevel construct is consistent with Dasmann and Lovejoy. An explicit definition consistent with this interpretation was first given in a paper by Bruce A. Wilcox commissioned by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) for the 1982 World National Parks Conference. Wil...
Who commissioned the biodiversity research paper?
{ "answer_start": [ 191 ], "text": [ "International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)" ] }
570bc2566b8089140040fa16
Biodiversity
This multilevel construct is consistent with Dasmann and Lovejoy. An explicit definition consistent with this interpretation was first given in a paper by Bruce A. Wilcox commissioned by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) for the 1982 World National Parks Conference. Wil...
At what event was the biodiversity research paper presented?
{ "answer_start": [ 279 ], "text": [ "1982 World National Parks Conference" ] }
570bc2566b8089140040fa17
Biodiversity
This multilevel construct is consistent with Dasmann and Lovejoy. An explicit definition consistent with this interpretation was first given in a paper by Bruce A. Wilcox commissioned by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) for the 1982 World National Parks Conference. Wil...
What year did the United Nations Earth Summit define "biological diversity"?
{ "answer_start": [ 504 ], "text": [ "1992" ] }
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Biodiversity
On the other hand, changes through the Phanerozoic correlate much better with the hyperbolic model (widely used in population biology, demography and macrosociology, as well as fossil biodiversity) than with exponential and logistic models. The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order p...
What model correlates much better than the hyperbolic model?
{ "answer_start": [ 35 ], "text": [ "the Phanerozoic" ] }
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Biodiversity
On the other hand, changes through the Phanerozoic correlate much better with the hyperbolic model (widely used in population biology, demography and macrosociology, as well as fossil biodiversity) than with exponential and logistic models. The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order p...
What model is widely used in macrosociology?
{ "answer_start": [ 82 ], "text": [ "hyperbolic model" ] }
570bc3996b8089140040fa1e
Biodiversity
On the other hand, changes through the Phanerozoic correlate much better with the hyperbolic model (widely used in population biology, demography and macrosociology, as well as fossil biodiversity) than with exponential and logistic models. The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order p...
What models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order positive feedback?
{ "answer_start": [ 208 ], "text": [ "exponential and logistic models" ] }
570bc3996b8089140040fa1f
Biodiversity
On the other hand, changes through the Phanerozoic correlate much better with the hyperbolic model (widely used in population biology, demography and macrosociology, as well as fossil biodiversity) than with exponential and logistic models. The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order p...
What model implies a second-order positive feedback?
{ "answer_start": [ 433 ], "text": [ "Hyperbolic model" ] }
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Biodiversity
On the other hand, changes through the Phanerozoic correlate much better with the hyperbolic model (widely used in population biology, demography and macrosociology, as well as fossil biodiversity) than with exponential and logistic models. The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guided by a first-order p...
What can be accounted for by a feedback between diversity and community structure complexity?
{ "answer_start": [ 657 ], "text": [ "The hyperbolic character of biodiversity growth" ] }
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Biodiversity
Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat. Intraspecific diversity, the variety of alleles within a single species, also offers us choice in our diets. If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. If a wheat c...
What has some responsibility for offering variety in what we eat?
{ "answer_start": [ 0 ], "text": [ "Interspecific crop diversity" ] }
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Biodiversity
Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat. Intraspecific diversity, the variety of alleles within a single species, also offers us choice in our diets. If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. If a wheat c...
What is the variety of alleles within a single species?
{ "answer_start": [ 0 ], "text": [ "Interspecific crop diversity" ] }
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Biodiversity
Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat. Intraspecific diversity, the variety of alleles within a single species, also offers us choice in our diets. If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. If a wheat c...
When do we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new?
{ "answer_start": [ 200 ], "text": [ "If a crop fails in a monoculture" ] }
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Biodiversity
Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat. Intraspecific diversity, the variety of alleles within a single species, also offers us choice in our diets. If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. If a wheat c...
What can destroy a wheat crop?
{ "answer_start": [ 340 ], "text": [ "a pest" ] }
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Biodiversity
Interspecific crop diversity is, in part, responsible for offering variety in what we eat. Intraspecific diversity, the variety of alleles within a single species, also offers us choice in our diets. If a crop fails in a monoculture, we rely on agricultural diversity to replant the land with something new. If a wheat c...
What type of a society primarily grows monocultures?
{ "answer_start": [ 567 ], "text": [ "agricultural society" ] }
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Biodiversity
In absolute terms, the planet has lost 52% of its biodiversity since 1970 according to a 2014 study by the World Wildlife Fund. The Living Planet Report 2014 claims that "the number of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe is, on average, about half the size it was 40 years ago". Of that number...
What percentage of biodiversity has the planet lost since 1970
{ "answer_start": [ 39 ], "text": [ "52%" ] }
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Biodiversity
In absolute terms, the planet has lost 52% of its biodiversity since 1970 according to a 2014 study by the World Wildlife Fund. The Living Planet Report 2014 claims that "the number of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe is, on average, about half the size it was 40 years ago". Of that number...
What year was they study done by the World Wildlife Fund?
{ "answer_start": [ 89 ], "text": [ "2014" ] }
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Biodiversity
In absolute terms, the planet has lost 52% of its biodiversity since 1970 according to a 2014 study by the World Wildlife Fund. The Living Planet Report 2014 claims that "the number of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe is, on average, about half the size it was 40 years ago". Of that number...
What percentage accounts for the terrestrial wildlife gone?
{ "answer_start": [ 322 ], "text": [ "39%" ] }
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Biodiversity
In absolute terms, the planet has lost 52% of its biodiversity since 1970 according to a 2014 study by the World Wildlife Fund. The Living Planet Report 2014 claims that "the number of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe is, on average, about half the size it was 40 years ago". Of that number...
What percentage accounts for the marine wildlife gone?
{ "answer_start": [ 370 ], "text": [ "39%" ] }
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Biodiversity
In absolute terms, the planet has lost 52% of its biodiversity since 1970 according to a 2014 study by the World Wildlife Fund. The Living Planet Report 2014 claims that "the number of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe is, on average, about half the size it was 40 years ago". Of that number...
What percentage accounts for the freshwater wildlife gone?
{ "answer_start": [ 408 ], "text": [ "76%" ] }
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Biodiversity
A 2007 study conducted by the National Science Foundation found that biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent—that diversity among species requires diversity within a species, and vice versa. "If any one type is removed from the system, the cycle can break down, and the community becomes dominated by a single...
In which year was the study published that found biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent?
{ "answer_start": [ 2 ], "text": [ "2007" ] }
570bc7826b8089140040fa3b
Biodiversity
A 2007 study conducted by the National Science Foundation found that biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent—that diversity among species requires diversity within a species, and vice versa. "If any one type is removed from the system, the cycle can break down, and the community becomes dominated by a single...
Who conducted the 2007 study?
{ "answer_start": [ 30 ], "text": [ "National Science Foundation" ] }
570bc7826b8089140040fa3c
Biodiversity
A 2007 study conducted by the National Science Foundation found that biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent—that diversity among species requires diversity within a species, and vice versa. "If any one type is removed from the system, the cycle can break down, and the community becomes dominated by a single...
What can cause a break down of a biodiversity system?
{ "answer_start": [ 203 ], "text": [ "If any one type is removed from the system" ] }
570bc7826b8089140040fa3d
Biodiversity
A 2007 study conducted by the National Science Foundation found that biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent—that diversity among species requires diversity within a species, and vice versa. "If any one type is removed from the system, the cycle can break down, and the community becomes dominated by a single...
Where are the most threatened ecosystems found?
{ "answer_start": [ 384 ], "text": [ "in fresh water" ] }
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Biodiversity
Finally, an introduced species may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces. In Belgium, Prunus spinosa from Eastern Europe leafs much sooner than its West European counterparts, disrupting the feeding habits of the Thecla betulae butterfly (which feeds on the leaves). Introducing new sp...
What may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces?
{ "answer_start": [ 9 ], "text": [ "an introduced species" ] }
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Biodiversity
Finally, an introduced species may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces. In Belgium, Prunus spinosa from Eastern Europe leafs much sooner than its West European counterparts, disrupting the feeding habits of the Thecla betulae butterfly (which feeds on the leaves). Introducing new sp...
Where does the Prunus spinosa leaf much sooner?
{ "answer_start": [ 109 ], "text": [ "In Belgium" ] }
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Biodiversity
Finally, an introduced species may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces. In Belgium, Prunus spinosa from Eastern Europe leafs much sooner than its West European counterparts, disrupting the feeding habits of the Thecla betulae butterfly (which feeds on the leaves). Introducing new sp...
What animal can its feeding habits disturbed by the Prunus spinosa?
{ "answer_start": [ 332 ], "text": [ "leaves endemic and other local species unable to compete with the exotic species and unable to survive" ] }
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Biodiversity
Finally, an introduced species may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces. In Belgium, Prunus spinosa from Eastern Europe leafs much sooner than its West European counterparts, disrupting the feeding habits of the Thecla betulae butterfly (which feeds on the leaves). Introducing new sp...
What species struggle to with the introduction of new species?
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Biodiversity
Finally, an introduced species may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces. In Belgium, Prunus spinosa from Eastern Europe leafs much sooner than its West European counterparts, disrupting the feeding habits of the Thecla betulae butterfly (which feeds on the leaves). Introducing new sp...
What types of new species can be introduced?
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Biodiversity
The forests play a vital role in harbouring more than 45,000 floral and 81,000 faunal species of which 5150 floral and 1837 faunal species are endemic. Plant and animal species confined to a specific geographical area are called endemic species. In reserved forests, rights to activities like hunting and grazing are som...
What plays a vital role in harbouring floral and faunal species?
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Biodiversity
The forests play a vital role in harbouring more than 45,000 floral and 81,000 faunal species of which 5150 floral and 1837 faunal species are endemic. Plant and animal species confined to a specific geographical area are called endemic species. In reserved forests, rights to activities like hunting and grazing are som...
How many endemic floral species do forests harbor?
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Biodiversity
The forests play a vital role in harbouring more than 45,000 floral and 81,000 faunal species of which 5150 floral and 1837 faunal species are endemic. Plant and animal species confined to a specific geographical area are called endemic species. In reserved forests, rights to activities like hunting and grazing are som...
How many endemic faunal species do forests harbor?
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Biodiversity
The forests play a vital role in harbouring more than 45,000 floral and 81,000 faunal species of which 5150 floral and 1837 faunal species are endemic. Plant and animal species confined to a specific geographical area are called endemic species. In reserved forests, rights to activities like hunting and grazing are som...
What types of animals and plans are confined to a specific geographical area?
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Biodiversity
The forests play a vital role in harbouring more than 45,000 floral and 81,000 faunal species of which 5150 floral and 1837 faunal species are endemic. Plant and animal species confined to a specific geographical area are called endemic species. In reserved forests, rights to activities like hunting and grazing are som...
What types of activities are granted rights in reserved forests?
{ "answer_start": [ 293 ], "text": [ "hunting and grazing" ] }
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Biodiversity
Global agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, give "sovereign national rights over biological resources" (not property). The agreements commit countries to "conserve biodiversity", "develop resources for sustainability" and "share the benefits" resulting from their use. Biodiverse countries that all...
What global agreement gives sovereign national rights over biological resources?
{ "answer_start": [ 26 ], "text": [ "the Convention on Biological Diversity" ] }
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Biodiversity
Global agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, give "sovereign national rights over biological resources" (not property). The agreements commit countries to "conserve biodiversity", "develop resources for sustainability" and "share the benefits" resulting from their use. Biodiverse countries that all...
What agreement commits countries to conserve biodiversity?
{ "answer_start": [ 26 ], "text": [ "the Convention on Biological Diversity" ] }
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Biodiversity
Global agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, give "sovereign national rights over biological resources" (not property). The agreements commit countries to "conserve biodiversity", "develop resources for sustainability" and "share the benefits" resulting from their use. Biodiverse countries that all...
What agreement commits countries to develop resources for sustainability?
{ "answer_start": [ 26 ], "text": [ "the Convention on Biological Diversity" ] }
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Biodiversity
Global agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity, give "sovereign national rights over biological resources" (not property). The agreements commit countries to "conserve biodiversity", "develop resources for sustainability" and "share the benefits" resulting from their use. Biodiverse countries that all...
What is the process of collecting natural products?
{ "answer_start": [ 323 ], "text": [ "bioprospecting" ] }
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Biodiversity
Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions. More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been do...
What can typically cause mass extinctions?
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Biodiversity
Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions. More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been do...
What percentage of species is estimated to be extinct?
{ "answer_start": [ 62 ], "text": [ "More than 99 percent" ] }
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Biodiversity
Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions. More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been do...
How many species have ever lived on earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 112 ], "text": [ "over five billion species" ] }
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Biodiversity
Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions. More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been do...
How many species currently live on earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 220 ], "text": [ "Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million," ] }
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Biodiversity
Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions. More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been do...
What is the estimated weight of the total amount of related DNA base pairs on Earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 469 ], "text": [ "50 billion tonnes" ] }
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Biodiversity
The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion—a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared. Over the next 400 million years or so, invertebrate diversity showed little overall trend, and vert...
Which era included a rapid growth period?
{ "answer_start": [ 113 ], "text": [ "the Cambrian explosion" ] }
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Biodiversity
The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion—a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared. Over the next 400 million years or so, invertebrate diversity showed little overall trend, and vert...
The Phanerozoic era covers what time period?
{ "answer_start": [ 52 ], "text": [ "the last 540 million years" ] }
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Biodiversity
The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion—a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared. Over the next 400 million years or so, invertebrate diversity showed little overall trend, and vert...
In which era, did the first phylum of multicellular organisms appear?
{ "answer_start": [ 113 ], "text": [ "the Cambrian explosion" ] }
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Biodiversity
The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion—a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared. Over the next 400 million years or so, invertebrate diversity showed little overall trend, and vert...
What type of diversity showed an overall exponential trend?
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Biodiversity
The history of biodiversity during the Phanerozoic (the last 540 million years), starts with rapid growth during the Cambrian explosion—a period during which nearly every phylum of multicellular organisms first appeared. Over the next 400 million years or so, invertebrate diversity showed little overall trend, and vert...
In which event did the rainforests collapsed in the carboniferous?
{ "answer_start": [ 586 ], "text": [ "the Permian-Triassic extinction event" ] }
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Biodiversity
Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions. Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting. The most authoritative classification in use t...
Who describes the "Evil Quartet"?
{ "answer_start": [ 0 ], "text": [ "Jared Diamond" ] }
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Biodiversity
Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions. Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting. The most authoritative classification in use t...
What describes habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions?
{ "answer_start": [ 28 ], "text": [ "Evil Quartet" ] }
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Biodiversity
Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions. Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting. The most authoritative classification in use t...
What describes Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting?
{ "answer_start": [ 160 ], "text": [ "HIPPO" ] }
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Biodiversity
Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions. Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting. The most authoritative classification in use t...
What is the most authoritative classification in use today?
{ "answer_start": [ 328 ], "text": [ "IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats" ] }
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Biodiversity
Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions. Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting. The most authoritative classification in use t...
What funding organization uses the IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats?
{ "answer_start": [ 476 ], "text": [ "the World Wildlife Fund" ] }
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Biodiversity
Endemic species can be threatened with extinction through the process of genetic pollution, i.e. uncontrolled hybridization, introgression and genetic swamping. Genetic pollution leads to homogenization or replacement of local genomes as a result of either a numerical and/or fitness advantage of an introduced species. ...
What can threaten endemic species with extinction?
{ "answer_start": [ 73 ], "text": [ "genetic pollution" ] }
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Biodiversity
Endemic species can be threatened with extinction through the process of genetic pollution, i.e. uncontrolled hybridization, introgression and genetic swamping. Genetic pollution leads to homogenization or replacement of local genomes as a result of either a numerical and/or fitness advantage of an introduced species. ...
What are another names for genetic pollution?
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Biodiversity
Endemic species can be threatened with extinction through the process of genetic pollution, i.e. uncontrolled hybridization, introgression and genetic swamping. Genetic pollution leads to homogenization or replacement of local genomes as a result of either a numerical and/or fitness advantage of an introduced species. ...
What causes genetic pollution?
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Biodiversity
Endemic species can be threatened with extinction through the process of genetic pollution, i.e. uncontrolled hybridization, introgression and genetic swamping. Genetic pollution leads to homogenization or replacement of local genomes as a result of either a numerical and/or fitness advantage of an introduced species. ...
What are are side-effects of introduction and invasion?
{ "answer_start": [ 320 ], "text": [ "Hybridization and introgression" ] }
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Biodiversity
Endemic species can be threatened with extinction through the process of genetic pollution, i.e. uncontrolled hybridization, introgression and genetic swamping. Genetic pollution leads to homogenization or replacement of local genomes as a result of either a numerical and/or fitness advantage of an introduced species. ...
What behavior causes swamping of a gene pool?
{ "answer_start": [ 509 ], "text": [ "The abundant species can interbreed with the rare species" ] }
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Biodiversity
The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old. The earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates at least from 3.5 billion years ago, during the Eoarchean Era after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. There are microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old...
What is the estimate age of the Earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 24 ], "text": [ "about 4.54 billion years old" ] }
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Biodiversity
The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old. The earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates at least from 3.5 billion years ago, during the Eoarchean Era after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. There are microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old...
What era contains the earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 154 ], "text": [ "the Eoarchean Era" ] }
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Biodiversity
The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old. The earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates at least from 3.5 billion years ago, during the Eoarchean Era after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. There are microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old...
What is the name of the era that predated life on Earth?
{ "answer_start": [ 246 ], "text": [ "Hadean Eon" ] }