Talent night

Getting ready for talent night....

Joel sand and played guitar while Katie, Luke, Marshall, Amanda, and I "interpretive danced". And here we go. Sing along now!

"Now listen all students and we'll educate you about this subject while causing no pain
There're kettle and eskers and drumlins and outwash, but till only happens on a glacial moraine
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Then slowly but surely the ice started melting, now it sits somewhere way far away
Then bryophytes, pine trees, spruce trees and maples came, but took beech longer, to find their way
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C3 and C4 and CAM photosynthesis, allow our fine green friends to survive
But sometimes theres not enough water, light, nitrogen, and so our green friends may wither and die
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And whey they do, they might turn into duff, that sits on top of a soil profile
Then soil arthropods, worms, chipmunks, rainwater, mix it all up, but it may take a while
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And type I and type II and type III survivorship, are calculated from little n sub x
But age specific birth rates are the most important, because ecology is mostly about sex
And if N is greater than K it's logistic, and our population might take a small plunge
Bur if r is irruptive and N is very small, you'd better watch out for exponential lunge
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Alphas and Betas and de Wit diagrams tell us in competition which species will win
Lotka, Volterra, Gause and MacArthur said "One of them's outta there, and the other one's in"
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But dN's and dts and small differentials, have driven some former students insane
So if you feel pressured and just want to blow it off, we suggest you go sit on a terminal moraine
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And predators who think that meat may be tasty, but it may hide, or fight back at times
And herbivores show us that plants may be good for you, but some of them are laced with cyanide
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And algae and fungi sometimes get together, and live as a lichen on an outwash plain
Pollination?s got syndromes, symbiosis happens, and parasitism is the most arcane
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And now you must do, your small group project, but it?s been so hot that everything died
So, if you do well, and collect any data, we?ll give you all A?s, but we?d be surprised
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And now our lesson has come to an end, we hope you all pass and aren?t in here again
If you have question, we don?t have time now, so just ask us after the final exam
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