Taxonomy Part 1
What do I eat?
Energy Pyramid
Taxonomy Part 2
Anything goes!
100
What is the phrase that helps us remember the 8 levels in the taxonomy pyramid?
What is "Did King Philip Come Over For Green Spaghetti?"
Or any other phrase...
100
An organism that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
100
This triangular shape shows the amounts of energy available at each trophic (nutritional) level of an ecosystem.
What is the energy pyramid?
100
The classification of living organisms is called?
What is taxonomy?
100
An organism’s job or role within an ecosystem.
What is its niche?
200
An organism's scientific name is its ____________ and ____________?
What is genus and species?
200
An organism that eats only meat?
What is a carnivore?
200
I make my own food through the process of photosynthesis. What am I?
I am a producer?
200
What is the BEST evidence scientists can use to classify living organisms?
What is DNA?
200
A single pathway of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem that results in energy transfer.
What a food chain?
300
A group of individuals that are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring are called?
What is a species?
300
An organism that eats both meat and plants?
What is an omnivore?
300
I eat plants ONLY. So I am a herbivore. What am I?
I am a primary consumer?
300
What is the taxonomic largest group called?
What is domain?
300
A collection of interconnected or overlapping food chains from the same ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
What language are an organism's scientific names written in?
What is Latin?
400
An organism that eats dead material or leftovers from other animals’ kills.
What is a scavenger?
400
I eat animals that eat plants. I am a carnivore. What am I?
I am a secondary consumer?
400
In which of the following three taxonomic levels are animals the most closely related to one another?
class
genus
phylum
What is genus?
400
Are all dogs members of the same species?
What is yes? Since they are able to interbreed!
500
What is the best evidence that two organism belong to the same species?
That they can mate and produce fertile offspring?
500
These organisms break down (digest) dead plants and animals and reduce dead organisms to simpler forms of matter and return them to the soil.
What are decomposers?
500
I eat secondary consumers. I am a carnivore. I am at the top of the energy pyramid. I can also be called an apex predator. What am I?
I am a tertiary consumer?
500
Who was the first person that classified living things?
Who is Aristotle?
500
When ENERGY is passed in an ecosystem from one trophic level to the next, only ten percent of the energy will be passed on.
What rule is this?
What is the 10% rule?