EVOLUTION
He wrote the book entitled "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life."
Who is Charles Darwin?
An association of living organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Unofficial taxonomy groups that often split Kingdom Animalia into two groups.
What are vertebrates and invertebrates?
A body covering, typically made of chitin, that provides support and protection.
What is the exoskeleton?
A rod of tough, flexible material that runs the length of a creature's body, providing the majority of it's support.
What is the Notochord?
The moist layer covering an earthworm's epidermis.
What is the cuticle?
Darwin tried to use his observations of this species types on this island to support is theory of natural selection.
What are finches on the Galapagos Islands?
The energy consumption relationship within an ecosystem, also known as a food chain.
What are trophic levels?
The phylum of a whole group of creatures called "sponges".
What is Porifera?
This allows the blood to flow out of the blood vessels and into various body cavities so that the cells are in direct contact with the blood.
What is an open circulatory system?
These promote the formation of bone tissue by producing the bone matrix.
What are Osteoblasts?
The bristles you feel on the surface of the earthworm.
What are the setae?
The unconfirmed hypothesis that explains the idea of one organism becoming another with the adding of information to its genetic code.
What is macroevolution?
A specific form of symbiosis in which two or more organisms live in a mutually beneficial relationship.
What is mutualism?
Dividing an organism into two identical halves by any longitudinal cut through its center.
What is radial symmetry?
A body region composed of a head and thorax fused together.
What is the cephalothorax?
The most common example of a creature from class Agnatha.
What is the lamprey eel?
The part of the grasshopper where food might be stored for later use after passing through the esophagus.
What is the crop?
What paleontologists call the representation of Charles Wescott's discovery of the fossil representatives from every major phylum that exists in our classification scheme in the "Burgess Shale".
What is The Cambrian Explosion?
Vitally important organisms in an ecosystem that take care of the energy that is "lost" between trophic levels (they eat the part of the organisms that consumers don't eat).
What are decomposers?
Members of the phylum Cnidaria have these small capsules that contain a toxin which is injected into prey or predators.
What are nematocysts?
Insect development consisting of three stages: egg, nymph, and adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
Development that occurs inside the female, allowing the offspring to gain nutrients and vital substances from the mother through a placenta.
What is Viviparous development?
The part of a crawfish that rests in the pericardial cavity in the dorsal part of its body.
What is the heart?
The scientific name of the creature that is alleged to be a transitional form between ape and man.
What is Australopithecus afarensis?
One of the principal gases involved in the greenhouse effect and has the task of keeping the earth hospitable for life.
What is carbon dioxide?
The structure of an Annelid that aids in reproduction and helps to distinguish the head from its tail.
What is the clitellum?
The classification Order of the insects biologists call all of the species "social insects".
What is Hymenoptera?
These sense various stimuli from the environment, then translate the stimuli into electrical signals that are sent to the brain.
What are receptors?
The part of a crayfish which, as blood passes through, cleans it of impurities and dumps those impurities back into the surroundings.
What is the green gland?