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Term meaning "able to move from place to place."
Motile
All living things in an ecosystem.
Community
Scientists who study birds.
Ornithologist
When migrating birds follow the same route every year; this is called a(n) ___.
Flyaway
This highlights all possible feeding relationships within an ecosystem.
Food Web
Bills equipped with serrated edges.
Fruit-Slicing
Backbone of a feather.
Shaft
Immovable, transparent eye coverings.
Spectacles
Neutral type of symbiosis in which organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped.
Commensalism
Asexual process that causes bacteria to repoduce rapidly.
Mitosis
This stimulates the body to develop acquired immunity.
Vaccine
Fast and most efficient form of snake movement.
Lateral Undulation
Another name for white blood cells.
Leukocyte
This chemical messenger causes blood vessels to dilate and ecome more permeable.
Histamine
These bills help birds to capture insects midflight.
Gaping Bills
These mammals are characterized by their shaggy brownish-orangish hair and sad looking face.
Orangutan
Animals that have four appendages.
Tetrapods
Best known elapids.
Cobras
Can be cut multiple ways & exhibit the same shape all over.
Radial Symmetry
Inner portion of a birds egg (not the yolk).
Albumen
Smallest elephant species.
African Forest Elephant
How many species are in the order primates?
300
An equal and stable abiotic and biotic relationship is called a(n) ___.
Dynamic Equilibrium
Hollow structures that are permanent and not annually shed.
Horns
Similar to alligators; however, they have protective plates that cover their abdomens and back.
Caimans