Getting Around
An organism that walks on its toes and the ball of its foot with the heel raised.
What is a digitigrade?
A community of living organisms interacting with abiotic factors in their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The variety of genes in a population.
What is genetic biodiversity?
Half of known vertebrates are these animals.
What are fish?
Organisms that can be found only in particular areas.
What are endemic species?
Birds fly to Central America, South America, or the Caribbean in the winter, returning north in spring.
What are neotropical migrations?
Multiple populations of varying species living together in the same area.
What is a community?
An influence on the cycles of daily activity.
What are circadian rhythms?
Small, floating, aquatic organisms at the base of the aquatic food chain.
What are phytoplankton?
Many snakes are killed because they are believed to be this.
What is venomous?
Activity during the periods of dusk and dawn.
What is crepuscular activity?
A relationship in which both organisms benefit, such as bees and flowering plants.
What is mutualism?
The energy flow from one organism to the next.
What is a food chain?
The most hunted game bird in North Carolina.
What is the mourning dove?
A standing dead or dying tree which can be used as a den site by black bears.
What is a snag?
What is aerialist?
A combination of more than one ecosystem.
What is a biosphere?
The process by which plants produce energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
An amphibian with a mottled pattern that has females larger than the males.
What is the marbled salamander?
The length of time young mammals grow inside their mother's body.
What is the gestation period?
An organism that walks flat-footed.
What is plantigrade?
A relationship which helps one organism and neither helps nor harms the other.
What is commensalism?
The three groups into which mammals are subdivided.
What are monotremes, marsupials, and placentals?
A reptile 2 to 3 feet long, nicknamed the "highland moccasin."
What is the copperhead?
A pouch found in the esophagus of many birds.
What is a crop?