Interactions
Humans are generally what type of consumer?
Omnivores
In the western United States, at the southern edge of their range, moose are sometimes so severely infested with ticks that they die. The tick/moose relationship is best described as what?
Parasitic
A niche restricted by competition is what?
Realized Niche
In the history of the world, how many mass extinctions have occurred?
5
After the breakup of Nirvana in 1994, Dave Grohl went on to found what alliteratively named Seattle band?
Foo Fighters
A deer browsing on a shrub is an example of what?
herbivory
In a woodland, a rabbit eats grass, and a coyote eats the rabbit. The coyote is a what kind of consumer?
Secondary
A species with a restricted tolerance for environmental conditions is called what?
A Specialist Species
When the environment changes too quickly for an organism to adapt, what will occur?
Extinction
In 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash that took place in a tunnel in which European capital city?
Paris
An organism that depends on another without killing it is a what?
A parasite
In Madagascar, several species of lemur eat bamboo, but each species specializes in one part of the bamboo—one species eats mature bamboo stalks, one species eats bamboo shoots, and one species eats leaves. This is an example of?
resource partitioning
An organisms full range of environmental conditions in which it can survive is what type of niche?
Fundamental Niche
A landslide causes part of a mountainside to fall away, leaving bare rock. In the years immediately following the landslide, the area will experience what?
Primary Succession
Bill Pullman played the role of President Thomas J. Whitmore, a former fighter pilot and Gulf War veteran, who delivered a highly-acclaimed fictional speech in what 1990s action movie?
Independence Day
An interaction in which an individual of one species kills and consumes an individual of another is called?
Predation
One lemur species eats only bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots contain a high level of cyanide, a toxic chemical. This lemur species has developed a tolerance for a certain amount of cyanide. What do you think will happen over time?
The number of cyanide resistant lemurs will become larger than other lemur populations
Around 65 million years ago, 95 percent of the planet's species were wiped out, and the age of the dinosaurs ended. What is the best explanation for why we still have numerous species today?
The species that exist today evolved from surviving species to fill niches left vacant by the dinosaurs.
When energy is transferred between trophic levels, the amount of available energy lost is about?
90%
Aunt Viv's husband, Uncle Phil, runs for Superior Court Judge against his former law school mentor in an episode of what 1990s sitcom?
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
A beehive depends on pollen from flowers to survive. Flowers depend on bees to pollinate them. Humans tend bee hives, offering the bees a place to live in exchange for some of their honey. The relationship among these three sets of organisms is what?
Mutualistic
For an organism to be considered evolutionarily successful it needs to be better at what than it's competitors?
Producing offspring that survive
On islands off the coast of Siberia, paleontologists have found the remains of pygmy mammoths. These populations were likely separated from mainland mammoth populations and became a new type of mammoth through what?
Allopatric Speciation
In the years immediately after a fire, a forest will experience what?
Secondary Succession
The most successful pinball machine of all time has sold over 20,000 units since its early 1990s release. Like many pinball machines, its theme was based off a pop cultural phenomenon (starting as a comic, then a TV show, and movies) and contains objectives such as "The Mansion," "Graveyard," and "THING."
The Addams Family