Symbiotic Relationships
Bees flying from flower to flower to gather nectar while pollinating the plants
Mutualism
Organisms have changed over time
What is an organism that generally obtains food by feeding on other organisms?
A Consumer
An adaptation that enables a species to blend in with its environment
Camouflage
A tadpole changing into a frog
Growth and Development
Snake eating a mouse
Organisms are still changing
Both Lamarck and Darwin
What is a non-living part of a ecosystem that shapes its environment?
Abiotic Factor
Selective Breeding
Something that has only some of the characteristics of life is..
a nonliving thing
Organisms changed because they wanted to survive
Lamarck
A large community of vegetation and wildlife adapted to a specific climate
Biome
An inherited trait that increases an organism’s chance of surviving and reproducing in a particular environment
Adaptation
A cell
Seeds of the burdock plant attach to the fur of animals so that it can be dispersed to a new location
Commensalism
Parents are only able to pass on traits they were born with
Darwin
a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the other
commensalism
An adaptation in which one species looks like another species
Mimicry
A plant growing towards the light, an opossum playing dead and a living thing changing
or turning a certain color to blend in with its environment are all examples of which function
of life?
Sensitivity
Small fish of several families, including a wrasse, feed on small organisms and parasites on the bodies of larger fish. The cleaner fish is fed and the larger fish are relieved of parasites.
Mutualism
Certain traits help organisms survive and reproduce better than other organisms without those traits
Darwin
any process that living things use to actively maintain fairly stable conditions necessary for survival
Homeostasis
The process by which organisms with variations that help them survive in their environment live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those that do not have the variations.
Natural Selection
Light and temperature are two examples of...
External stimuli