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?
What is the state bird of California?
Quail
The offspring produced when two different species mate.
What is a hybrid?
Condor
The only mammal that lays eggs.
What is a platypus?
What is the largest tree on the planet?
The Coast or California Redwood
What is the largest river in Northern California?
The Sacramento River
A mutually beneficial relationship between two organisms.
What is a symbiotic relationship
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?
What is the state flower of California?
Golden poppy
What is the term for a community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system?
The study of birds
What is Ornithology?
What is the slowest mammal on the planet?
What is a Three-Toed Sloth
the process by which plants release water into the atmosphere through their leaves, stems, and flowers.
What is transpiration?
What animal is on the California state flag?
California Grizzly Bear
The most dominant genus of trees in early successional habitats in the western US
Pine
The "bee" species of what type of bird is the smallest in the world, weighing less than a tenth of an ounce?
Hummingbird
How many bones does a shark have?
Zero
The process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy
photosynthesis
How many state parks are there in California?
280