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Living things that can carry out life processes independently.
What are Organisms?
Environmental factors that are associated with or result from the activities of living organisms.
What are Biotic factors?
Groups of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
What are Species?
Places where an organism usually lives.
What are Habitats?
Environmental factors that are not associated with the activities of living organisms.
What are Abiotic factors?
Process of becoming adapted to an environment.
What is Adaptation?
The ability of an organism to tolerate a chemical or disease-causing agent.
What is Resistance?
Animals that do not have backbones.
What are Invertebrates?
Communities of organisms and their abiotic environments.
What are Ecosystems?
Groups of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area and interbreed.
What are Populations?
Process by which individuals that have favorable variations survive and reproduce more successfully.
What is Natural selection?
Process of two species evolving in response to long-term interactions with each other.
What is Coevolution?
A change in the characteristics of a population from one generation to the next.
What is Evolution?
The selective breeding of organisms, by humans, for specific desirable characteristics.
What is Artificial selection?
Bacterium found in the intestines of humans and other animals.
What is E.coli?
Discovered the process of natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Differ from bacteria in their genetics and the makeup of their cell wall.
What are Archaea?
Diverse organisms that belong to the kingdom Protista?
What are Protists?
Groups of various species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.
What are Communities?
Animals that have a backbone.
What are Vertebrates?
Organisms in a population differ slightly from each other in (list 3 things)
What is Form, Function, and Behavior?
Cell walls act like _____________ which allows fungus to stand up straight.
What are Mini-skeletons?
A ______________ is the reproductive structure of a fungus.
What is a Mushroom?
Two organisms that do not have nuclei.
What are Bacteria and Archaea?
The first land vertebrates were
What are Reptiles?
An example of a gymnosperm.
What are Conifers (Pine trees)?
Nonvascular plants such as _________, live in damp places.
What are Mosses?
Microscopic, unicellular organisms that usually have a cell wall, and reproduce by cell division.
What is Bacteria?
Which animal usually mates with another member of the same herd?
- Fish
-Snakes
-Squirels
-Bison
What is Bison?
Plantlike protists that can make their own food using light energy from the sun.
What are Algae?
Flowering plants that produce seeds within fruit.
What are Angiosperms?
Most important kind of protists.
What are Algae?
Organisms whose cells have nuclei, rigid cell walls, and no chlorophyll.
What is Fungus?
List the three domains of classifying organisms.
What is Domain Archaea, Domain Bacteria, and Domain Eukarya?
Woody, vascular seed plants whose seeds are not enclosed by an ovary or fruit.
What are Gymnosperms?
Initial source of food in most ocean and freshwater ecosystems.
What is Phytoplankton?
The basic components of an ecosystem include (5 things, list 3 of them)
What is Energy, Mineral Nutrients, Water, Oxygen, and Living Organisms?
Two examples of an ecosystem.
What is an Oak forest and a Coral reef?
The unicellular organism that causes the disease malaria.
What is Plasmodium?
List the four Kingdoms of classifying organisms?
What is Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Plantae, and Kingdom Animalia?