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Mr. Whybrew's Surprises Pt. 3
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Organisms that are the same species can breed and produce living, ________________________ offspring.
What is fertile?
100
A(n) _____________________ is a scientist who studies the behavior of animals.
What is ethologist?
100
Animals with ___________________ have colors or patterns that help them hide from predators.
What is camouflage?
100
Biomes that have little or no rainfall are _______________________________.
What is a desert?
100
The total area of the earth that contains and supports life.
What is biosphere?
200
The creation of a new species is _____________________________.
What is speciation?
200
A behavior that results from experience is ________________________________.
What is a learned behavior?
200
A species that eats another species is ________________________.
What is predation?
200
A process in which algae growth chokes out other water ecosystems is ________________________________.
What is eutrophication?
200
The amount by which a population's size changes in a given time.
What is growth rate?
300
Scientist use the ___________________ to classify living things into three broad groups.
What is three-domain system?
300
A(n) _______________________ is a behavior that an animal is born with.
What is an innate behavior?
300
____________________ is a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected.
What is commensalism?
300
The chemical waste produced on land that enters water sources is ______________________________.
What is chemical runoff?
300
When a population spreads out in small groups through an ecosystem.
What is clumped?
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The first word of a scientific name is the ____________________ of the organism. The second word is the _____________________.
What is genus, species?
400
A stimulus that occurs inside of an organism is a(n) _________________________.
What is an internal stimulus?
400
The trophic structure of a community describes its ______________________ relationship.
What is feeding?
400
A _________________________ is designed to bring species back from possible extinction.
What is conservation biology?
400
The process of ecological change in a community.
What is succession?
500
A ____________________ classifies and assigns scientific names to organisms.
What is a taxonomist?
500
The study of the behavior of living things is ____________________________.
What is behavioral biology?
500
A property called ____________________ is a community’s ability to resist change brought on by disturbances.
What is stability?
500
Inventors protect their ownership of a technology by getting a(n) ________________________.
What is a patent?
500
Small organisms found in the ocean; usually at the beginning of a food chain.
What is plankton?