What is the term for the maximum capacity population size that the ecosystem can currently support?
Carrying capacity
The body is covered and protected by what system?
Integumentary system
Entire ovary is fleshy and juicy throughout
Name for animals that chew the cud.
Ruminants
A hawk captures and eat a rabbit
Predation
Artic Tundra
Digestive wastes are eliminated from the body by the....
Consists of an outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer
Drupe
Snakes
Bees feed on nectar from flowers and carry pollen from flower to flower on their legs
Mutualism
What part of a flower receives the pollen grains during pollination?
stigma
What muscle group in the thigh bends the leg at the knee?
Hamstring
Amoeba
A snake and an eagle both eat rodents from the same limited area.
Competition
In the Linnaean system of classification, what group comes between class and the family?
Order
Which blood vessels return blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart?
Pulmonary veins
Daily Double:
What organ allows a fish to adjust it buoyancy so that it can remain stationary at a given depth?
Swim bladder
Name the pathogen consists of a small amount of genetic material encased in a protein capsid.
Virus
Wheat rust fungus grows on wheat, stealing nutrients from the wheat and hindering its growth
Parasitism
What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs that allow gases to be exchanged between the air and the blood?
Alveoli
What hormone, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, is known as the growth hormone?
Somatotropin
Consists of a small dry seed with one or two wing-like structures
Samara
Name the process by which living cells produce energy from food without using oxygen.
Fermentation
An orchid grows on a tree branch, neither hurting nor helping the tree.
Commensalism