Vocab
A small difference in a species that either gives it an advantage or disadvantage.
example: red fox/gray fox
What is a variation?
Organisms are born with certain traits that help them survive. This in turn makes them live longer enabling them to find a mate and pass some of these traits along to their offspring.
Darwin
A relationship involving at least 2 species where at least one species benefits.
Symbiosis
The best bird beak was which one?
What year was Nordville established here at W.H.'s ?
2005
When nature determines which individuals will survive and which will die out. The environment itself will determine whether you are successful or unsuccessful
Natural Selection
The Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Traits. So during your lifetime, you can acquire a trait and then pass it off to your offspring.
Lamarck
A relationship that benefits one and harms the other.
example: ticks
parasitism
What caused the dark colored pocket mouse to appear in a light colored mouse population in the first place?
A genetic mutation
My daughter's name is .......
Sydney
Things that limit an organisms chance of surviving.
example: food, water, space, lack of mates, disease
What are limiting factors?
The environment had something to do with why things changed.
Both
A relationship where both species benefits.
example: crocodile opens mouth, bird eats left over food out of teeth
mutualism
What was the name of the islands that Darwin studied finches and their beaks?
Galapagos Islands
My daughter's occupation is.....
Armed security officer in a school
The maximum amount of individuals that an environment/ecosystem can sustain before the resources and space are exceeded.
What is carrying capacity?
Organisms can never go extinct
Lamarck
A relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected
Remora fish eating left over bits of sharks food.
Commensalism
What is the scientific name of the light colored moth?
hint: very common - begins with letter T
Typica
Mr. Nordmark got a scholarship in college to do what???
Wrestle
A butterfly with a unique set of wings on it where there are two circles on the wings that appear to look like eyes to the predator above.
What is an example of mimicry?
Some traits will be passed on to offspring
both
Great horned owl swooping down and killing and eating a rabbit.
Predation
What was the scientific name of the dark moth?
Carbonaria
The story of my dog eating the baby rabbit. Her name was...............
Cinnamon