Adaptations 1
This is an adaptation that may be helpful in catching prey
Many answers
This is an adaptation that may be helpful in escaping from predators
Many answers
This is the type of selection that allows evolution to happen in nature
What is natural selection?
This type of organism eats other organisms to get energy
What are consumers?
An educated guess or possible explanation
What is a hypothesis?
This adaptation allows animals to use sound reflected back at them to find things and get around
What is echolocation?
An animal that uses a light to communicate and as bait to attract prey
What is an anglerfish?
The person who came up with the theory of evolution
Who was Charles Darwin (or Alfred Russel Wallace)?
All of the living things living somewhere and all of the nonliving things that effect them
What are ecosystems?
What we know about the world and the methods we have to learn new things
What is science?
An adaptation that helps protect an animal by telling other animals to stay away
What is intimidation, poison, or mimicry?
The type of bird beak best at cracking open large, hard seeds
What are short, wide beaks?
This is the species of animal observed leading to the discovery of the theory of evolution
What are finches?
Ecology is the study of _____________
What are homes or ecosystems?
A variable in an experiment that is intentionally changed between groups
What is an independent variable?
A thing that a platypus can detect using electroreception
What are other organisms' electric field?
This adaptation allows an organism to produce their own energy from sunlight
What is photosynthesis?
Two species that are related have a common _________
What is a common ancestor?
This is the type of organism that an ecosystem needs to have the most of to remain healthy
What are producers?
This type of variable are the many things in an experiment that should be kept the same
What are controlled variables/constants?
An adaptation where an organism goes through one or more transformations clearly separating its stages of life
What is metamorphosis?
The animal with the best sense of taste (they have than 175,000 taste buds)
What is the catfish?
The type of animal that is the closest relative of dinosaurs still alive today
What are birds?
An ecosystem is in __________ if it is healthy and balanced
What is equilibrium?
This is one part of an experiment which is left alone, and the independent variable is not applied to it
What is a control group?