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This is the definition of an adaptation.
What is a heritable trait that increases the likelihood of an individual's survival and reproduction.
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This is the definition of invasive species.
What is a nonnative organism that spreads widely in a community?
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This is an example of a decomposer.
What is a mushroom?
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This is what an omnivore eats.
What is both plant and animal food?
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What takes longer to happen, primary succession or secondary succession?
What is secondary succession?
200
This term is used to describe how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment.
What is fitness?
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This is the definition of parasitism.
What is a relationship in which one organism depends on the other for nourishment, harming the host.
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This is how much energy is passed up from each trophic level in a food pyramid.
What is 10%?
200
This is what a carnivore eats.
What is meat or other animals?
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“Everything an organism does and when it does it” describes an organism’s _________________.
What is a niche?
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This is the definition of artificial selection.
What is the process of selection conducted under human direction?
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This is the definition of mutualism.
What is a relationship where two or more species benefit?
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Put these words in the proper order (from lowest on the food chain to the highest) Primary consumers, tertiary consumers, primary producers, secondary consumers
What is Primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers
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This is what herbivores eat.
What are plants?
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This is often found as a pioneer species
What is lichen?
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Competition happens when organisms seek the same ________________________ ___________________________.
What are limited resources?
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This is the definition of commensalism.
What is a relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected.
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Draw a food chain for these relationships: A caterpillar eats some grass. A bird eats a caterpillar. A fox eats a bird.
What is grass --> caterpillar --> bird --> fox
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These types of organisms make their own food by performing photosynthesis.
What are primary producers?
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There are the two greatest threats to natural systems.
What is habitat destruction and invasive species?
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These are the four mechanisms of biological evolution.
What are mutation, migration, genetic drift, and natural selection?
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This is the definition of predation.
What is the process by which an individual of one species hunts, captures, kills, and consumes an individual of another species?
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Draw a pyramid for these relationships. A caterpillar eats some grass. A bird eats a caterpillar. A fox eats a bird.
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This is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph.
What is autotrophs make their own food and heterotrophs eat theirs.
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A panda is considered a ___________________________ because of its restricted tolerance range and niche.
What is specialist?