Easy Ecology
An animal at the top of the food chain
What is an apex predator?
The structure that makes a bird a bird.
What is a feather?
A species of butterfly that is famous for wintering by the thousand in the mountains of Mexico and migrating up to Canada every year.
the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above ground but occasionally subterranean
What is a stem?
In general, as distance from the equator increases, biodiversity ________.
What is decreases?
The offspring produced when two different species mate.
What is a hybrid?
The most common bird reporting citizen science platform in the United States.
What is eBird?
The only mammal that lays eggs.
What is a platypus?
The type(s) of plant that a species of butterfly/leafhopper/stink bug will eat and lay eggs on.
What is a host plant?
The river drainage we are in right now.
What is the chattahoochee river drainage?
A mutually beneficial relationship between two organisms.
What is mutualism?
A hummingbird's main source of nutrition.
What are insects?
The scientific name of the Boa Constrictor.
What is Boa constrictor?
The only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside.
What is a strawberry?
The highest (least specific) taxonomic level.
What is a domain?
Among other things, the human-caused lack of this natural phenomena has led to major declines in southeastern longleaf pine forest ecosystems.
What is fire?
The study of bird eggs
What is oology?
The name for a toad's poison glands.
What is a parotoid gland?
the process by which plants release water into the atmosphere through their leaves, stems, and flowers.
What is transpiration?
The most biodiverse Phylum.
What is Phylum Arthropoda (arthropods)?
The most dominant genus of trees in early successional habitats in the southeast.
What are pines (Pinus)?
The species of bird that has the record for farthest nonstop flight at 8,435 miles.
What is the bar-tailed godwit?
A bump of cartilage on the outside of a Bat's ear canal that aids in collecting sounds from behind.
What is the tragus?
The species name of the oldest living organism on the planet.
What is a quaking aspen?
The number of currently extant vertebrate classes (ex birds, reptiles).
What is nine?