Classification
This was the first person to ever study plants and animals.
Who is Aristotle?
The kingdoms are broken down to this many number of kingdoms?
What are 5?
This is the largest ecosystem in the world?
What is the ocean?
These can make their own food?
What are producers?
Sorting things according to their likenesses.
What is classification?
This is the language used to give scientific names to plants and animals.
What is Latin?
Mushrooms, yeast, toadstools and moulds are examples of organisms in this kingdom?
What is the Fungi Kingdom?
Cacti can survive in desert ecosystems because of their deep root systems to reach water. This is called what?
What is an adaptation?
These rely on nutrients from other living things to grow and sustain their bodies.
What are consumers?
This refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point where it cannot redevelop or reproduce itself as quickly as it is being used.
What is overexploitation?
The scientific name of a species is decided using these.
What are Genus and species name?
These are single celled organisms in the Kingdom?
What are monerans?
This desert is the largest in the desert ecosystem encompassing 11 countries.
What is the Sahara desert?
This type of consumer is at the top of the food chain?
What are tertiary consumers?
These are the 3 major pollution.
What are air, land and water
Born in Sweden is 1707, he was the first scientist to come up with an orderly system for classifying plants and animals.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
The animal kingdom is broken into 2 main subgroups?
What are vertebrates and Invertebrates?
When a new species is introduced to an ecosystem that doesn't belong there, it is called this.
What is an invasive species?
This type of consumers eats other consumers and producers?
What are omnivores?
These are usually single celled organisms that live in water or other moist places such as the bodies of animals or deep in soil.
What are protists?
The pyramid of classification of plants and animals is ordered in this way?
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus & Species.
Plants are able to create their own food using this process?
What is photosynthesis?
There are 5 things (at least) that influence an ecosystem?
What are air, water, trees, plants and animals.
Camels have these 3 adaptations to survive desert conditions.
What are humps to store fat, leathery lips to eat cacti, and the ability to withstand warmer climates?
As temperatures rise, some habitats become uninhabitable for certain species resulting in this.
What is habitat loss?