Organisms that create their own energy
What are producers/autotrophs?
A characteristic of organisms that helps them to blend into the environment and avoid predation.
What is disguise or camouflage?
Often called the powerhouse of the cell
What is mitochondria?
What is fungi?
An area on Earth that includes places with similar climate, plants, and animals.
What is a biome?
An animal that hunts and eats other animals
What is a predator?
A characteristic of organisms that makes them appear more dangerous than they are (usually through coloration).
What is mimicry?
Cell walls are present in this type of cell.
What is a plant cell or a prokaryote?
The most specific or smallest level of classification
What is species?
The non-living factors in the environment that affect ecosystems.
What are abiotic factors?
Organisms that feed on plants
What are herbivores or first level consumers?
Organisms that have certain traits that are favorable for survival reproduce and pass those traits onto their offspring. Over time, the trait increases in the population.
What is natural selection?
Different organized structures in the cell
What are organelles?
Organisms that have a skeletal structure
What are vertebrates?
Includes the biotic and abiotic factors in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that help in the break-down of dead plants or animals
What are decomposers?
Three limiting factors that control population growth.
What are food, water, and space/shelter?
Put the following in the correct order: tissue, organ system, cell, organ
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system?
Animals that produce milk for their offspring and have hair
What are mammals?
Energy flowing through the ecosystem is obtained primarily from this
What is the sun?
Level in the food chain containing the most energy
What is producers or the lowest level?
Evolution occurs through natural selection. Traits that make organisms more like to survive come from...
What is genetic variation or mutation?
Two processes by which cells get energy
What are cellular respiration and photosynthesis?
The seven levels of classification
What is kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
The end of a group of organisms or death of the last individual of a species
What is extinction?