This ecological level of organization involves populations of different species interacting in a given area
What is a community?
100
The main predictors of diversity in a terrestrial ecosystem
What are precipitation and temperature?
100
The domain of life that includes humans
What is Eukarya?
100
Visible differences in the structure or behaviour of organisms
What are variations?
100
This drives natural selection
What is environmental change?
200
Natural selection operates at this ecological level of organization
What are individual organisms?
200
Ecosystems with a diverse range of avian species could be assumed to have a diverse range of this
What is vegetation?
200
The term we use to refer to humans, or, "Homo sapiens", is an example of this naming system.
What is binomial nomenclature?
200
The process by which offspring receive half of their genetic material from each parent
What is sexual reproduction?
200
He proposed that organisms could acquire traits throughout their lifetime and pass those traits on to offspring
Who is Lamarck?
300
An example of a biotic factor that might limit the distribution of a population of cougars
What is competition for resources, hunting or disease?
300
Ecosystem diversity is positively related to this region on our planet
What is proximity to the equator?
300
Humans, dogs, mice, and giraffes all belong to this class
What is mammalia?
300
The process through which variations arise
What is mutation?
300
This line of evidence sparked Darwin's idea that humans likely evolved from fish
What is embryology?
400
Evolution operates at this ecological level of organization
What are populations?
400
A community of coral species in the shallow inter-tidal zone of the Caribbean displays high diversity due to access to these abiotic factors
What are sunlight and oxygen?
400
The fact that dogs and wolves are close relatives is demonstrated by the fact that they both belong to the same ____________.
What is genus?
400
Variations that increase an organism's probability of surviving to reproduce
What are adaptations?
400
Small, raptor-like dinosaurs with feathers and similar joint features as modern-day birds are an example of these lines of evidence in support of evolution
What are transitional fossils and comparative anatomy?
500
The lack of vegetation in most deserts due to minimal rainfall is an example of this.
What is an abiotic limiting factor?
500
Fish that feed along the bottom of the ocean floor must be adapted to these types of conditions
What are high pressure, low temperature, and low oxygen availability?
500
Ecoloists use these to help distinguish between species that closely resemble one another
What are dichotomous keys?
500
This is caused by a mutation in the gene encoding the shape of red blood cells
What is sickle cell anemia?
500
The idea that long periods of evolutionary "lulls" are interrupted by periods of rapid change