Diversity of Living Things
A rare type of bacteria often found in extreme environments such as hot springs
What are archaebacteria?
The phenomenon that describes how some individuals are more likely to surprise and reproduce because of certain traits compared to other individuals
What is natural selection?
All the organisms living in an area together with their physical environment
What is an ecosystem?
The living and once-living parts of an ecosystem, including all of the plants and animals
What are biotic factors?
The letters in PEMDAS stand for...
What are parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition and subtraction?
A very common type of bacteria commonly found in soil or in the digestive tract of many organisms
What is eubacteria?
A change in genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next
What is evolution?
An individual living thing
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
Insects typically have this number of legs...
What is six?
Organisms that absorb their food through their body surface, have cell walls and often live on land... Examples include yeasts and mushrooms
What are fungi?
An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival and reproduction in a certain environment
What is an adaptation?
A group of organisms that can mate to produce fertile offspring
What is a species?
Animals that have backbones are called...
What are vertebrates?
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in this year...
When is 1863?
A diverse group of mostly single celled organisms that often live in water such as diatoms or amoebas
What are protists?
The selective breeding of organisms by humans for specific characteristics
What is artificial selection?
All the members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
Woody plants that produce seeds, but their seeds are not enclosed in fruits such as pine trees
What are gymnosperms?
An albatross is which kind of animal?
What is a bird?
Organisms with many cells (with cell walls) that make their own food via photosynthesis
What are plants?
The ability of one or more organisms to tolerate a particular chemical designed to kill it
What is resistance?
A group of various species that live in the same place and interact with each other
What is a community?
Flowering plants that produce seeds in fruit and account for most land plants today
What are angiosperms?
The sun rises from this direction...
What is East?