A tiger's stripes help it hide in the tall grass and await its prey. The type of adaptation is...
What is structural.
100
This is the type of rock that fossils are most likely to form in.
What is sedimentary.
100
Charles Darwin took a trip on a ship called what?
What is the HMS Beagle.
100
A substantial portion of prescription drugs stem from compounds found in the wild. This benefit explains this benefit of biodiversity.
What are medicines.
100
This is where plants' and animals' homes are destroyed by human activities.
What is habitat destruction/loss/fragmentation.
200
The grey wolf lives in places where the temperature at times reaches -40 degrees F. Due to an adaptation in its nervous system, despite these brutal temperatures, the tissues in its paw pads do not freeze. This adaptation is...
What is physiological.
200
Name three parts of living things that are likely to be fossilized.
Answers may vary. What are bones, shells, and scales.
200
This was Darwin's job aboard the HMS Beagle. Choices are cook, captain, deck hand, and naturalist.
What is naturalist.
200
Genetic variety is important to the sustainability of food crops. What three plants provide more than half of the calories consumed worldwide?
What are rice, potatoes, and corn.
200
This is where bad things get into the air or water and cause living things to die. Examples include oil moving from parking lots into creeks and exhaust from cars going into the air.
What is pollution.
300
Coyotes sometimes hunt in pairs or groups to bring down larger prey animals that provide more meat. This is which type of adaptation?
What is behavioral.
300
Explain the principle of superposition.
What is oldest fossils at the bottom, more recent fossils nearer the surface.
300
This is the term that Darwin assigned to the idea that those organisms best suited to their environment will live long enough to reproduce.
What is survival of the fittest.
300
Jobs are created by biodiversity. Ecotourism and production of medicines are examples of this benefit of biodiversity.
What are economic benefits.
300
This is where organisms that do not belong in an area are introduced to a new place. The result is that they out-compete the native species normally found there.
What are exotic species.
400
The flying squirrel has a flap of skin between its front and back feet that allow it to glide from limb to limb. This adaptation is what type...
What is structural.
400
If layer X is found below layer Y in a rock profile, what can you say about the relative ages of the two layers?
What is X is older than Y.
400
All adaptations are pointed toward these two purposes.
What are survival and reproduction.
400
If too many species are removed from an ecosystem, what is the likely result?
What is a negative impact/collapse of the ecosystem.
400
This is where people hunt and kill animals to the point where their populations drop to an unsustainable level.
What is over-harvest.
500
Describe the differences among behavioral, physiological, and structural adaptations.
Answers will vary. Structural is part of an organism, behavioral is something it does, and physiological is something at the cellular or tissue level.
500
An index fossil is dated to 100 million years old, and a new and previously undiscovered fossil is found in a layer below that index fossil, what can you say about the new fossil?
What is that it is older than 100 million years old.
500
This old dude said that Darwin's idea of natural selection was not right. He advocated the idea of use and disuse to explain different traits' emergence. He stated that giraffes' necks were long because they tried and tried to reach the tops of trees, thus passing on long necks to their offspring.
Who is Lamarck.
500
Name one additional benefit of biodiversity not yet mentioned.
Answers may vary. Should mention either educational, scientific, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. reasons.
500
This is where the greatest loss of biodiversity is occurring.