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What are eyes made of many facets?
HINT: Dragonflies have them!!
Compound eyes
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How do scientists collect info about the planets and other objects in space?
optical telescopes [such as the Keck Telescope on Muana Kea, Hawaii. It has 36 hexagonal mirrors]
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What is the science of life??
- Biology!!!
- gave you an easy one (:
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What trouble-making mollusk arrived in the Great Lakes in the 1980's?
Zebra Mussels 
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What is ballast?
- Ballast is water pumped into the hold of a ship to add weight and help steady the seagoing vessel.
- *Zebra mussels are believed to have traveled to america in a freshwater ballast of European cargo ships
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What is the problem with zebra mussels??
- They reproduce too much! Atleast 400 per year! But if all the eggs survived, one female could produce 40,000 per year!!
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they attach to objects and can block pipes.
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Where do zebra mussles live for their entire life?
They attach themselves to a rock or other solid object with their tiny hairs, and will spend the rest of their lives there!
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What is the approach to get rid of the zebra mussels????
Scrape them off their moorings (:
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Define bios in Greek parts.
Life/ way of life
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What is an ORGANISM?
ANYTHING capable of carrying on life processes!
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