Virginia Ecology
What is the biome of Northern Virginia?
Temperate Deciduous Forrest
Escherichia coli is the scientific name of a bacterium. What category of classification is Escherichia?
Genus
What is the main difference between plants and animals?
plants= autotrophs
animals= hetertrophs
An organism that is prokaryotic and lives in extreme environments.
Archaebacteria
A picture that shows one way energy movement between a singular line of species
Food chain
Would you see more gymnosperms or angiosperms in Northern Virginia?
Angiosperms (trees that loose their leaves)
An organism that can produce its own food.
Autotroph
Are plants and animals prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
Eukaryotic
Body parts that no longer serve a purpose in today's society, but may have been needed for the species ancestors.
Vestigial Structures
The biome that has extremely cold temperatures, very little vegetation, and no seasonal changes.
Tundra
What part of the Azalea is the seed?
The flower
A lava river separates frogs and they become unable to reproduce with each other, but rather only with the frogs on their side of the lava. This is called_____.
Speciation
Animals with a notochord that are give live birth and feed their offspring are called....
mammals
The study of embryos and other early stages of development can help in the classification of living things, past and present, by providing clues about their —
common ancestry
According to the energy pyramid, the most energy is present in organisms living at the same level as the —
producers
Some plant roots grow with mycorrhizal fungi. The fungi absorb water and minerals and pass them on to the plant and receive carbohydrates from the plant. This is an example of —
Mutalism
A kingdom that is eukaryotic, multicellular, heterotrophic, and primarily reproduces sexually
Animal kingdom
Which of the following structures is associated with gymnosperms?
cones
A change that improves a species ability to survive.
Adaptation
Which biome is found at the coast line, uncovered when the tide is low, but covered with water when the tide is high?
Intertidal zones
The organisms we would see at the beginning of Northern Virginia food chain would be? (give examples)
grass, azalea bushes, dogwood, milkweed, dandelions...
A jellyfish has which kind of symmetry?
Radial
In plants, gymnosperms have cones and angiosperms have flowers. Both of these plant structures are specialized for —
reproduction
Periods of rapid change followed by long periods of little change.
Punctuated equilibrium
If a producer has 1900U of energy, how much energy will be transferred to a secondary (2) consumer?
19u energy