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Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum

High school science curriculum designed by Maui teachers and field biologists

Vog

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

smog-like air pollution caused by volcanic gases and particulates (R1)

Visual strip-transect search

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a research method for studying fish in which two divers swim side-by-side down either side of a transect, counting all fishes seen within a specified corridor (M4)

Viscosity

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

fluidity (A1)

Viable

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

able to germinate (as a seed) or hatch (as an egg) (C2)

Vesicle

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a hole left behind when lava cools quickly and traps gases (A1)

Vertebrate

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

an animal with a backbone (C4)

Unicolonial

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

an ant behavior strategy in which ants of the same species form large colonies of many different nests (A4)

Ungulate

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

hoofed mammal (IS1)

Under-rock survey

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a research technique in which researchers lift rocks and catalogue the invertebrates they find there (A4)

Tropopause

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

the boundary between the atmospheric layers troposphere and stratosphere where the drop in temperature with increasing altitude ceases (A2)

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