Ecology
The study of interactions between organisms and their environments.
What is Ecology?
This root means "life"
What is bio?
There are two types which are continental and oceanic.
Each organism has trillions of these basic building blocks of life.
What are cells?
This type of energy is driven by the sun.
What is solar power or solar energy?
If more wolves enter an environment, the deer population might________?
What is decrease, die out or go down?
This root means "Earth"
What is terra or geo
This plate type is the more dense type that is covered by seawater.
What is oceanic?
This box is used to determine what genes an organism will have.
What is a punnet square?
This type of energy is made by the same stuff seen in an atom bomb.
What is Nuclear Energy?
What is compete?
This root means "hundred"
What is cent?
This plate type has land on it.
What is continental?
A strong gene is also called this.
What is dominant?
Finish this law: Energy can be neither create nor __________________.
What is destroyed?
The process of organisms changing their bodies over time to suit their environments is called ______.
What is adaptation?
This root means "change"
What is trans"?
Mountains are caused by two of these crashing together.
What are plates?
The weakest genes that may not be passed on.
What are recessive?
When metal touches metal and transfers heat
What is conduction?
1000 New deer are born. 200 fall to predation and 100 die of starvation. The net change is _________.
What is 700?
This root means "made"
What is plast?
The ocean floor grows because of ___________ plates.
What is divergent or separating?
The idea that weak traits die off while strong traits survive and pass on.
What is Survival of the Fittest?
This type of energy comes from steam or hot water in the ground.
What is geothermal?