The process through which water leaves the atmosphere.
What is Precipitation
100
In a food chain or food web, what do the arrows represent?
What is the transfer of energy
100
A process of change in a population over time.
What is Evolution
100
What is the process where organisms that are best suited to their environment survive and pass on their genetic traits in increasing number to successive generations?
What is Natural Selection
200
The portion of earth in which all life exists
What is biosphere
200
An organism that needs to consume other organisms to get energy is known as what?
What is heterotroph
200
The most available energy in the food pyramid is found at this level.
What is a Producer
200
Possible explanations for the origin of diversities in structure, function and behavior among organisms are contain in the
What is the Theory of Evolution
200
Certain insects resemble the twigs of trees on which they live, the explanation for this resemblance could be what?
What is natural selection has favored this trait.
300
The study of interactions between organisms and their interrelationships with the physical environment
What is Ecology
300
Where does a producer get its energy from?
What is the sun (sunlight)
300
If two organisms share a food source and fight over it, which limiting factor does this represent?
What is competition
300
A diagram that depicts evolutionary relationships among groups (also known as a phylogenetic tree)
What is a cladogram
300
In our class experiment, birds with different beaks and their ability to eat different foods represents which conclusion of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.
What is Adaptation (to their environment)
400
Temperate Forest, Desert, and Tundra are examples of what
What is Biomes
400
The process involved in the intake of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) from the atmosphere.
What is Photosynthesis (Plants)
400
Arrange these organisms into a food chain: spider, robin, ant, hawk, tulip
What is tulip --> ant --> spider --> robin --> hawk
400
The similarity in forelimb structure of humans, bats, and mole is evidence that they share what?
What is a common ancestor
400
Certain antibiotic drugs that use to be effective in treating illnesses in humans are now becoming effective. This is due to what?
What is Inheritance of acquired traits.
500
The number of maple trees, gray squirrels, and owls in a forest all together make up this level of an ecosystem.
What is a community
500
True or False: Through the nutrient cycles, we are always getting more nitrogen, carbon, and water on earth.
What is False
500
What are the different levels of organizations in ecology, starting from the lowest to the highest level?
Hint: there are five different levels.
What is Individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biome.
500
Structures derived from a common ancestor that have different functions are known as what?
What is homologous structures.
500
After the Industrial Revolution, dark-colored moths outnumbered light-colored moths in certain regions of England. Within the past 40 years, factories have reduced the pollution heavily, and the relative number of light-colored moths has increased. Why did it increase?