Biomes
In what biome might you find a polar bear or artic fox?
What is the Tundra?
This person wrote "The Origin of Species"
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is a relationship where both species benefit (example- Cowbirds eat the parasites off of cows)
What is mutualism?
In what biome would you find plants that store water for long periods of time.
What is the desert?
This expression means that the weak organisms will not be able to reproduce while the strong will reproduce leading to a population with their traits.
What is survival of the fittest?
In this biome you could find permafrost.
What is the taiga?
This is a structure present in organisms that suggests a shared ancestor
What is a homologous structure?
Barnacles are transported on the bodies of whales. The barnacles get to relocate, and the whale is not helped or harmed. What kind of relationship is this?
What is commensalism?
This biome is rainy, hot, poor soil, and located near the equator, and extremely diverse in terms of plants and animals.
What is the tropical rainforest?
This is the gradual process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population based on that organisms ability to successfully reproduce.
What is natural selection?
The following animals exist in what biome: wildebeest, warthogs, elephants, zebras, rhinos, gazelles, hyenas, cheetahs, lions, leopards, ostrich, mousebirds, starlings, and weavers.
What is the tropical savanna?
This is a structure that loses its value and function during the evolutionary process, but points to common ancestry. Examples would be the coccyx and the appendix.
What is a vestigial structure?
This is a relationship where one species is harmed and the other benefits.
What is parasitism?
This kind of biome is represented in the midwestern United States. Grazing animals (buffalo, antelope, deer) as well as jackrabbits and prairie dogs exist here. Tall grasses and rolling flat plans are characteristics.
What are grasslands?
Yes
This is the difference between a coniferous forest and a deciduous forest.
What is coniferous trees keep their needles all year long while deciduous trees shed their leaves in the winter.
What is evolution?
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
This is when two species are vying for the same prey or the same resources (food, water, shelter, space) in order to survive
What is competition?
What is the biggest biome?
Taiga
What is a species?
a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
Compare and contrast the tropical rainforest and the desert.
What is artificial selection? How does it compare to natural selection? Explain how dog breeding is an example of artificial selection.
Natural selection might occur on all organisms living on the earth.
Give an example of each type of symbiosis (parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism).
What are the 5 biomes?
grassland, forest, desert, and tundra,and marine biomes.
Is evolution a random process?
no