Ecosystem / Energy
The three ecosystems that organisms can exist on Earth.
What is terrestrial, aquatic marine and aquatic freshwater?
"Survival of the fittest" but more accurately organisms which are more well-adapted to their environment will continue to survive.
What is natural selection?
The eighth planet in the solar system. As the third most massive planet in the solar system, it is ravaged by supersonic winds.
What is the planet Neptune?
The names of the four nucleotides.
What is adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine
The largest tectonic plate in the world.
What is the Pacific Plate?
The species from which domesticated dogs originate from.
What is the gray wolf?
Organisms which can produce their own food.
Autotrophs / Producers
A permanent change in genetic code.
What is a mutation?
The type of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to human eyes. Another name for visible light.
What is white light?
A permanent change in the genetic code.
What is a mutation?
The continent of Africa is being split in two by its tectonic plates; these plates are called ________ .
What is a divergent plate/ boundary.
Darwin formulated his theory of evolution after visiting this island off the coast of Ecuador.
What is the Galapagos Islands?
This specific marine ecosystem on Earth has the most biodiversity and the highest carrying capacity on the entire planet (specific name of place).
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
These are gradual changes in a species' genes (through each generation) that give them a better chance to survive in an ecosystem.
What is an adaptation?
An imaginary line from which an object rotates upon, Earth's tilts at 23.5 degrees give us these conditions on Earth.
What are the seasons?
This era in Earth's history was the time period in which terrestrial plants, fish, amphibians, insects and the first reptiles came into existence.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
The name of the supercontinent that existed approximately 250 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
The scientific name of cats.
What is felis domesticus / felis catus?
Energy is used in organism's for these three functions.
What is reproduction, cellular respiration, and recovery?
The four requirements for an animal to domesticated.
What is 1) feedable 2) friendly 3) able to reproduce (fecund) 4) and families?
The name of a small rocky celestial object after it has struck the surface of the Earth.
What is a meteorite?
An intentional change in an organism's DNA completed by scientists before that organism is born.
What is genetic engineering?
The crust and the upper part of the mantle which is broken up into tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere?
The three species which are the closest living relatives to humans.
What are gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans?
(bonobos work as well)
A quartenary consumer receives this much energy when compared the total energy available.
What is 0.01% of the original energy?
An organ that no longer is useful for an organism yet still exists due to its ancestors.
What is a vestigial appendage?
The most cratered object in the solar system.
What is the Galilean Satellite, Calisto?
The scientific name of a domesticated dog.
What is canis lupus familiaris?
The action of pushing the seafloor apart via magma vents in mid-ocean ridges.
What is rifting or seafloor spreading?
Tightly wound DNA, located within the nucleus of the cell.
What is a chromosome?