Food Webs
Changes in Environments
Fossils and Extinction
Chapters 1 and 2
Wild Card
100
A group of food chains that are linked together (page.88)
What is a FOOD WEB?
100
Any difference within an environment that can affect the survival of organisms (p.99)
What is ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION?
100
Refers to the number of species in an ecosystem (p.112)
What is DIVERSITY?
100
The amount of time an organism lives (p.33)
What is LIFE SPAN?
100
When pollen moves from the stamen to the pistil (p.72)
What is POLLINATION?
200
A model that shows how much energy if found at each feeding level in an environment (p.92)
What is an ENERGY PYRAMID?
200
Changes to living or nonliving things in an area (P.98)
What is ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES?
200
Caused the mammoths become extinct (p.108)
What is past environments and the organisms that lived there?
200
When an organism pretends to be something else to protect or disguise itself. (p.47)
What is MIMICRY?
200
An event that causes severe destruction in an environment (p.98)
What is a NATURAL DISASTER?
300
The struggle among organisms for something they need (p.89)
What is COMPETITION?
300
All the living things nonliving things that interact in an environment (p.100)
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
300
Any evidence of a living thing from long ago (p.110)
What is a FOSSIL?
300
Has 3 stages: egg, nymph, and adult. (p.34)
What is INCOMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS?
300
Could possibly happen if a disease killed off prairie dogs in an area where coyotes lived (p.101)
What is the coyotes would lose some or all of their food source?
400
An animal that eats meat, and an animal that eats plants (p.92)
What is a CARNIVORE and a HERBIVORE?
400
All the members of a species in an area (p.100)
What is POPULATION?
400
The disappearance of a species when the last of its kind dies (p.108)
What is EXTINCTION?
400
The part of the flower that produces pollen (p.72)
What is the STAMEN?
400
The level of the energy pyramid that contains the most organisms (p.92)
What is the BOTTOM LEVEL the PRODUCERS?
500
This is what can happen to a food web when an alien species enters an environment (p. 91)
What is a change in the local environment?
500
Includes all the populations in an ecosystem (p.100)
What is a COMMUNITY?
500
Tells us where the land that is now dry was once covered with water (p.111)
What is AMMONITES?
500
The process that plants do when they take in sun, water, and Co2 to create glucose. (p.62)
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
500
Co2 and H2o are waste products of this. (p.63)
What is RESPIRATION?
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