Origins of Life
Ecology Vocabulary
Math City
Read this diagram
Evolution Vocabulary
100
The theory that the life began with free-floating nucleic acids.
What is RNA world?
100
Variation in the habitats and resources provided by one geographic location.
What is ecological biodiversity?
100
If I tag 30 lizards, then catch 30 more lizards, but 3 of them are tagged, this is the number of lizards there are in the area.
What is 300?
100
How long ago did polar bears emerge, according to this phylogenetic tree?
What is 150 years ago?
100
When two organisms develop over time to have differences between them.
What is divergent evolution (or adaptive radiation)?
200
The name for the hypothetical set of conditions on earth around 4 billion years ago, in which there were warm, acidic, broth-like seas.
What is primordial soup?
200
When organisms adapt differences that allow them to divide resources, limiting competition with each other.
What is niche partitioning?
200
In a Hardy-Weinberg equation, if the value of p is .7, the value of q is this number.
What is 0.3
200
The closest relative to the Western North American Brown Bears, according to this phylogenetic tree.
What are Asian Brown Bears?
200
The variation of traits among living organisms in a given area.
What is genetic biodiversity?
300
The experiment that simulated the water cycle and added lightning and saw the formation of organic molecules.
What is the Miller-Urey experiment?
300
Organisms that try to have as many babies as possible, and invest little care in their young.
What are r-strategists?
300
In a Hardy-Weinberg equation, if the value of p is 0.2, the amount of individuals who are homozygous recessive is equal to this number.
What is 0.04?
300
The human population that is most closely related to the Tibetans, according to this diagram. 
Who are the Denisovans?
300
A measure of how likely an organism is to reproduce.
What is fitness?
400
The suggestion that life arose gradually out of inorganic molecules combining into monomers that combined into complex polymers.
What is the Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis?
400
When one organism benefits in an interaction, and the other is unbothered.
What is commensalism?
400
The stream type(s) in this chart that has a statistically lower macroscopic invertebrate species diversity than the seasonal streams. 
What are intermittent streams?
400
The two most closely relates species, according to this diagram.
What are species F and Species G?
400
When a physical geographical barrier separates two populations, leading them to concurrently go through natural selection and adapt separately from each other.
What is allopatric speciation?
500
The name for the polymer discovered by Sydney Fox in his experiments to simulate Primordial Soup.
What are proteinoids?
500
When organisms adapt to look like things that are poisonous.
What is Batesian biomimicry?
500
In an ecosystem where the primary producers receive 1,200 J of energy from the sun, the tertiary consumers receive this much energy.
What is 1.2 J?
500
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
Create a cladogram that connects 5 species found in this classroom (alive or dead), based on morphology.
Extra bonus points if one of the species you chose was hydra.
500
When organisms evolve through natural selection to have different ways of reproducing because of any number of non-geographical barriers.
What is sympatric speciation?