In Cold Climates, Regions of Permafrost Are Good Places to Build

question 50

True/False

In cold climates, regions of permafrost are good places to build on because the ground stays frozen to the surface all year. ​

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Definitions:

Hydrostatic Skeleton

A type of skeleton found in some invertebrates in which contracting muscles push against a tube of fluid.

Asexual Reproduction

The process by which an organism creates a genetically identical copy of itself without the involvement of another organism.

Choanoflagellates

A group of free-living unicellular and colonial flagellate eukaryotes considered to be the closest living relatives of the animals.

Collar Cells

Also known as choanocytes, are flagellated cells that line the interior of asconoid sponges and are used for feeding by generating water flow and filtering food particles.