Evolution
What is mutation?
This is a symbiotic relationship where both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
This is a consumer that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
These are organisms that first colonize an area after a disturbance has occurred.
What are pioneer species?
This is the chemical formula for water.
What is H20?
This is the mechanism of evolution that involves an adaptation being passed from one generation to the next.
What is natural selection?
This is a symbiotic relationship where one species relies on a host for nutrients or some other benefit. (+/-)
What is parasitism?
This is a consumer that eats both producers and consumers.
What is omnivore?
This is a species non-native to an area that becomes a problem, such as by out-competing native species.
What is an invasive species?
This process is used by plants to take sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide and create sugar and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This is when more than half of the species on Earth disappear at once.
What are mass extinctions?
This is a symbiotic relationship where one species benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
This is an organism that uses energy from the sun to create its own food.
What is a (primary) producer?
This is the type of succession that occurs most typically after a forest fire, or any disturbance that does not completely destroy a community.
What is secondary succession?
This step of the scientific method involves posing a testable, possible answer, or educated guess, to a question.
What is hypothesis?
This is what we call sequences of DNA that give us our different characteristics (passed on to us by our parents)
What is gene?
This word describes a species' job or role in a community.
What is a niche?
This is what we use to see all feeding relationships present in a community.
What is a food web?
This is the type of succession that occurs when a body of water is filled in with organic matter.
What is aquatic succession?
This person famously ran up the Philadelphia Art Museum steps in a movie, and now has a statue outside of it.
Who is Rocky Balboa?
This is the person who first came up with the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This species of bird kicks out another species of bird's eggs out of the nest so that their parents will raise their babies.
What is a cuckoo?
Producers begin with 100% of the energy in an energy pyramid. This is how much energy the secondary consumers receive from those producers.
What is 1%?
This is a bug nonnative to Philadelphia that came from China and has spread widely in recent years, and needs to be STOMPED OUT if seen.
What is a spotted lanternfly?
These are the names of Ms. Havu's dogs.
Who are Laika and Stubby?