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100

The ability of an organism to maintain stable internal conditions while in a changing environment

What is homeostasis?

100
In biology, ________________ refers to the process by which a population changes over time.
What is evolution?
100

He wrote "The Voyage of the Beagle".

Who is Charles Darwin?

100

The 4 kingdoms of Eukarya

What are Animalia, Plantae, Protista, and Fungi?

100
The process by which organisms inherit advantageous traits that help it survive and reproduce
What is natural selection?
200

____________________  _________ use a series of paired questions/statements to identify organisms.

What are Dichotomous Keys?

200

The time period _____________________ is when primates first appeared.

What is the Cenozoic?

200
Which Kingdom is made up of prokaryotes that live in harsh, aquatic environments?
What is Archaebacteria?
200
The 3 Domains
What are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya?
200

A single parent produces offspring that are identical to the parent through the process of _____________  ____________________.

What is asexual reproduction?

300

Two parents produce offspring that share characteristics of both parents through a process of _____________________ reproduction.

What is sexual reproduction?

300
An organism that consumes other organisms for its energy (can't make its own food)
What is heterotroph?
300

Give 4 examples of abiotic factors in an environment.

What are soil, sun, air, water, rocks, lakes, etc? There are more possible answers.  Abiotic means nonliving.

300
List the 8 levels of organization of living organisms from most general/broadest to most specific.
What are Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
300

The beginning of time is the _____________________ period.

What is Pre-Cambrian?

400

A ____________________ is a change in genetic material.

What is mutation?

400
Binomial Nomenclatures help identify organisms and give their ____________________ name.
What is scientific?
400
An organism that makes its own food
What is autotroph?
400
The Kingdom ____________________ consists of mushrooms, yeasts, and molds and get their energy by absorbing materials.
What is Fungi?
400
The Kingdom _________________ contains multicellular organisms that lack cell walls and get their energy by consuming other organisms.
What is Animalia?
500

The differences between producers, consumers, and decomposers

What are - producers make their own food, consumers must get their energy/food from other organisms, and decomposers absorb the nutrients and materials from dead organisms?

500
A change that affects the activity of an organism such as gravity, light, sound, hunger, or a chemical is a ______________.
What is stimulus?
500

The domain that has membrane-enclosed organelles

What is Eukarya?

500
The 3 tools for classification that we used in class
What are cladograms, binomial nomenclatures, and dichotomous keys?
500
Give an adaptation for each of the following plants and animals. Shark Gecko Chimpanzee Turtle Iguana Arctic Fox
Answers will vary. Shark - fins Gecko - loses its tail to escape Chimpanzee - opposable thumbs Turtle - shell Iguana - tough skin, long toenails Arctic Fox - coloration
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