Energy Flow
Biodiversityy
Biomes & Ecosystems
Cycles & Successions
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100
What is an organism that makes its own food?
Autotroph
100
What do you call the variety of species within an ecosystem?
Species Diversity
100
What do you call the average weather conditions of an area?
Climate
100
What is water falling from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
Precipitation
100
How many dogs do I have?
2
200
What is an organism that gets energy by eating both plants and animals?
Omnivore
200
What do you call the variety of genetic characteristics within a gene pool?
Genetic diversity
200
What measures how far north or south of the equator a location is?
Latitude
200
What do you call liquid water changed into water vapor?
Evaporation
200
What nocturnal animal walked in my yard and died within 30 seconds this past summer?
Oppossum
300
What diagram shows one pathway of energy through an ecosystem?
Food chain
300
A region contains forests, ponds, grasslands, and wetlands. What type of diversity does this demonstrate?
Ecosystem diversity
300
What biome contains permanently frozen soil called permafrost?
Tundra
300
What do you call the type of success that begins on bare rock where there is no soil?
Primary succession
300
What is this woman's name?
Abby Lee Miller
400
What diagram shows multiplie interconnected feeding relationships, unlike a food chain?
Food web
400
The Irish Potato Famine was used in our lesson to demonstrate the danger of having too little of what type of diversity?
Genetic Diversity
400
Rivers, lakes, ponds, and streams are examples of this type of aquatic ecosystem.
Freshwater ecosystem
400
A wildfire destroys vegetation, but the soil remains. What kind of succession is this?
Secondary Succession
400
In February of 2016, a man was arrested with assault with a deadly weapon after attempting to rob the popular food chain, Wendy's. What was this "deadly weapon" he used to attempt to rob the Wendy's with?
An alligator
500
What is the total mass of living matter found at a trophic level?
Biomass
500
A disease enters a population where nearly every individual has the same genes. Explain why this could be dangerous.
Low genetic diversity means fewer genetic differences that might allow some individuals to survive the disease
500
Temperature, precipitation, sunlight, and wind belong to this category of environmental factors.
Abiotic factors
500
Explain why secondary succession usually happens faster than primary succession.
Soil already remains in secondary succession
500
What is Scotland's national animal?
A unicorn