The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful
What is natural selection
Both organisms benefit from this type of symbiotic relationship.
What is mutualism?
Which organisms have the most available energy in a food pyramid?
Producers
What is the carbon cycle?
Starts with bare rock
What is primary succession?
What are the elements that make up CHONPS?
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur
What is secondary succession (soil is already present).
Starts with bare rock
What is primary succession?
A biomolecule that serves as a fast source of energy?
What are carbohydrates?
Any inherited trait that increases an organism's chance of survival is known as this.
What is an adaptation
How much energy is lost from one trophic level to the next?
90%
movement of ions, and molecules across cell membranes without the need for energy input
What is passive transport?
In the fossil record, a pattern of periods of slow change interrupted by periods of rapid change best describes the theory of -
What is punctuated equilibrium.
What is fungi?
If the producers contain 10,000 Kcal, then how much energy will the secondary consumers contain?
What is 100 Kcal?
The legs of crocodiles and cats have similar bone structures and develop in a similar way which indicates a common ancestor. What type of structures are the leg bones?
What are homologous structures?
Evolutionary mechanism that change in allele frequencies because of seperation or catastrophic event
What is genetic drift?
The first plants and animals to live in a newly available ecosystem.
Which type of movement across a cell's membrane requires energy supplied by ATP?
Active transport
What type of cell is a chloroplast found in?
Bonus if you can list the category the cell falls under between eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
Eukaryote; plant cell
The process by which water moves through the cell membrane to balance out a high concentration of solutes.
What is osmosis?
Which characteristic do all organisms in Kindoms Animalia, Protista, and Fungi have in common?
What is they are eukaryotic.
What kind of observation is it that one uses their senses?
Qualitative Data?
Describe commensalism.
A relationship where one species benefits from another species and that species is not harmed or helped.
A complex carbohydrate that is responsible for cell rigidity and structual support in plant cells.
What is cellulose?