What is the difference between invertebrate and vertebrate?
Invertebrate: No Backbone
Vertebrate: Backbone
100
What is an adaptation? and give an example
Traits or behaviors that help an organim survive
100
The four types of fossils are?
body, cast, mold, trace
100
What is a vascualr plant Give an example
Plants with tubes. Ferns/ Trees
100
What gas to plants take in during photosynthesis?
CO2
200
All members of the chordate phylum are invertebrates of vertebrates?
Vertebrates
200
What is a functional adaptation?
Behaviors that help an organism survive: hibernation/migration
200
Who developed the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
200
What is a non vascular plant? Give an example
Plants with no tubes: Moss
200
What do plants produce as a result of photosynthesis?
Gluclose and O2
300
What characteritics do birds and mammals have in common?
They are both warm blooded
300
What adaptation will a bunny have to help it survive in the artic?
White fur: camouflage
300
Why is the fossil record incomplete?
Fossils are difficult to form
300
What is the difference between an angiosperm and a gymnosperm?
One produces seeds in cones, the other seeds in fruits with flowers
300
What are the two groups of seed plants?
Angiosperms and Gymnosperms
400
What animals are included in the arthropods?
Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans
400
What adaptative behavior do Masked Boobies perform on their young? Owl also do this.
Infanticide
400
What is natural selection?
survival of the fittest
400
What is a tropism? List two different types
Plants response to stimulus. Phototropism, gravitropism
400
Which of the following is a sudden change that could lead to the extinction of a species?
A mountain range rises and isolates the species
Earth's tectonic plates move
A volcano erupts
Sea Level Changes
A volcano erupts
500
What organisms are in the phylum Echinoderms?
Starfish, Sea cucumber
500
This adaptation is when an organism looks like or behaves like another organism. I showed you an example with a moth and an ant. What type is it?
Mimicry
500
What species of animal was Darwin curious about on the galapagos Islands?
Finches
500
What are the four major groups of plants we talked about in class?
Ferns, Moss, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms
500
Name the six phyla of the animal kingdom that we covered in class