Evolution
The naturalist that travelled the world and made key observations that led to the idea of natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
The living or once living parts of an ecosystem.
What are the biotic factors?
The domain that includes animals, plants, fungi, and protists
What is Eukarya?
A group of different species that live in the same area.
What is a community?
Organisms that eat only plants
What is a herbivore?
When two different species share a common relative that lived in the past.
What is a common ancestor?
a diagram that shows all the feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
The process of grouping things based on their similarities.
What is classification?
The order that you would list the 4 levels of organization in the ecosystem from smallest to largest.
What is organism, population, community, and ecosystem?
Organisms that eat animals (meat).
What are carnivores?
The process by which modern organisms have changed over time from ancient organisms.
What is evolution?
The measure of the variety of life in an area.
What is biodiversity?
The environment that provides all the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
A group of the same species that live together in the same place.
What is a population?
Organisms that can eat both plants and animals?
What are omnivores?
The process by which organisms that are better adapted to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
The threshold percentage of organisms that disappear due to a mass extinction.
What is 50%?
The kingdom that includes ferns, moss, trees, and cactus
What is kingdom plantae?
All of the different groups of organisms along with all the abiotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that feed on decaying and dead organisms
What are decomposers?
When humans cross different species of corn to create a new species that will be able to resist pests and grow faster it is called this.
What is artificial selection?
When a group within a species separates and develops its own unique characteristics to create a new species through evolution.
What is speciation?
The domain that contains the single celled organisms found in harsh environments.
What is archaea?
A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities.
What is a biome?
Organisms that can make their own food utilizing photosynthesis.
What are either autotrophs or producers?