General
The study of life and living things.
What is Biology?
-Jeffery
The abundance of different organisms living in a certain area.
What is biodiversity?
-Katie & Jeffery
This is the defining trait that ciliate protists are named for.
What are cilia?
-Lilly
They are distinguished by having a dry scaly skin and typically laying soft-shelled eggs on land.
What are reptiles?
-Emma
The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms.
What is evolution?
-Jeffery
A group of organisms that can interbreed.
What is species?
-Katie
A species that is from a different area that moves into an ecosystem and wrecks havoc on the native species and ecosystem.
What is Invasive Species?
-Katie & Jeffery
This group has the highest biomass in marine ecosystems.
What are protists?
-Lilly
The naming and classification of organisms.
What is taxonomy?
-Emma
Warm-blooded vertebrates covered by feathers. Have wings for flying.
What are birds?
-Stamp
Everything that humans didn’t make or influence.
What is nature?
-Stamp
Relationships where all species involved benefit from their interactions
What is mutualism?
-Stamp
This is the scientist who first successfully did Taxonomy.
Who was Linnaeus?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the approximate number of species in the group mammals.
An English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
What was Charles Darwin?
-Emma
The dying out or extermination of a species.
What is extinction?
-Stamp
Multiple organisms that compete in their environment for resources such as food or space.
What is competition?
-Katie
This group is what all complex life evolved from.
What are protists?
-Lilly
Animals of a class that are distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and a neocortex.
What are mammals?
-Emma
This species of mammal is the closest living relative to the Cetaceans.
What are hippos?
This is the study of the nonliving parts of the Earth.
What is Geology?
This is an interspecific relationship where both species are harmed.
What is competition?
DAILY DOUBLE
This term means a taxonomic group is incomplete.
This is the organ type that allows the animals in the group mollusk breathe.
What are gills?
-Lilly
The continued activity of the lactase protein in adulthood.
What is lactose persistence?
-Emma