Biodiversity
What is biodiversity?
What is the variety of life on Earth, including all living things and their interactions?
What are adaptations?
What are characteristics that can be passed to the next generation that help organisms survive and reproduce in an environment
Name three adaptations animals have to help them get energy.
Giraffe - long neck
Chameleon - long tongue
Sharks - sharp teeth/ fast
What is a win-win relationship? Give an example.
Pollination, ants and tree, cleaner wrasse and bigger fish
How do scientists study fish sounds?
Underwater hydrophones!
These organisms produce energy themselves...
What is primary producers.
Organisms such as plants and algae obtain energy directly from sunlight through a process called photosynthesis.
What are 3 types of adaptations?
Structural, Behavioral, and physiological
Name three adapatations animals have to live in the ocean
Examples:
Flippers/fins, gills, hold breath for a long time, countershading
What is a win-meh relationship? Give an example.
Commensalism- octopus and grouper, remora and sharks, barnacles and whales
Name three reasons why fish make sounds.
Examples:
Communictaion
Locate food
Defense
Navigation
A cycle in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
What is a food chain?
Physical characteristics of an organism that help it survive/reproduce.
Structural adaptation
What are three behaviors that help organisms survive?
Examples:
nocturnal, social groups, migration, burrowing
What is symbiosis and name three different symbiotic relationships.
Close and dependent relationships between organisms of different species.
Three types of symbiotic relationships:
1.Mutualism
2.Commensalism
3.Parasitism
Name at least two ways fish make sound.
Drumming - vibration of the swim bladder using the sonic muscle.
Stridulation - rubbing of hard parts
Gas release
How does climate change affect biodiversity?
What is...
Sea ice is disappearing, disrupting Arctic food chains
Migration and breeding seasons are changing
Animals shift their ranges due to warming water
Responses made by an organism that help it survive/reproduce
Behavioral adaptations
What is it called when an animal is dark on top and light on the bottom? what does this do?
Counter-shading, helps organisms blend in in the water. The dark makes it hard to see them from above and the white blends in with the brightness of the sky.
What is a win-lose relationship? Give an example.
Parasitism- ticks, isopods on fish tongue
Name this sound.
Dolphins
The role an organism plays in its community is known as its…
What is niche?
Can include: spatial, dietary, and temporal niches
A body process that helps an organism that help it survive/reproduce
Physiological adaptations
Name two adaptations that have to do with a body process that helps animals survive.
Examples:
Venom production, the release of toxins/poison, antifreeze proteins
False cleaner wrasse
Name this sound.
Spotted seatrout