vocabulary
What is the species that we think were all killed by a meteorite?
What are the dinosaurs?
Which type of relationship is the sea anemone/clownfish, as the one is in "Finding Nemo"?
What is commensalism or mutualism?
What are animals that can produce their own food called?
What are producers?
A change from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
There are just 100 vaquitas (a marine mammal) left in the world. Endangered, extinct, or threatened?
What is endangered?
Give an example of a parasitic relationship
What is ...
What type of animals must obtain their energy by eating other things?
What is a consumer?
What tool is used to give animals a scientific name?
a dichotomous key
Fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers exist today. In 1978, experts estimated the population of Sumatran tigers at 1,000. Endangered, extinct, or threatened?
What is endangered?
Bacteria that lives in human colons feeds off of indigestible food. In this process, proteins are produced. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is mutualism?
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
A food web provides many examples of energy transfer, a food chain is just one example.
153 millimeters = _________ meters?
What is 0.153?
Due to overfishing, the albacore tuna's population is going down. Endangered, extinct, or threatened?
What is threatened?
Aphids attach themselves to a plant and suck the sap from the plant. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is parasitism?
Primary consumers are what type of animal?
What is an herbivore or omnivore?
What are the five steps of the scientific method?
1. Question 2. Hypothesis 3. Experiment
4. Analysis 5. Conclusion
What symbol represents energy transferring from one organism to another
What are the arrow of a food chain?
The dodo bird is now extinct. How did it come to be this way?
Sailors came to the island with other animals that were predators of the dodo, and the dodo bird couldn't fly away/escape.
What are the three symbiotic relationships and describe each one.
What is parasitism: one helped, one harmed; commensalism: one helped, one unaffected; mutualism: both helped
In a food chain, how many steps from the sun would a secondary consumer be (the sun would be the first step)?
What is the fourth step? SUN --> PRODUCER --> PRIMARY CONSUMER --> SECONDAY CONSUMER
This organelle sorts, packages, and sends proteins where needed in the cell
What is the golgi apparatus?