Vocab
How tall is Ms. Andrews
5'0 ft.
In artificial selection, _____________ decide what genes are placed on rather than by nature
humans
an animals functional role in a community including what resources it uses and how it uses them
niche
A species that has a strong or wide-reaching impact on a community
A keystone species
A series of predictable changed over time experienced by a ecological community
Succession
This popular trilogy series, turned amazon prime drama, follows Belly Conklin as she navigates her relationship with two brothers and a family beach house
The Summer I Turned Pretty
fitness
True or False
An organism that depends on another without kill it, is a predator.
False
Why are plants primary producers?
Because the get energy straight from the sun and make it into energy other animals can consume
The building of an ecological community after a disturbance has altered the community, but not destroyed all living things.
Secondary Succession
What's the largest bone in the Human body
the femur
When environmental conditions change so rapidly that a species cannot adapt to the change.
In Madagascar, several species of lemur eat bamboo, but each species specializes in one part of the bamboo—one species eats mature bamboo stalks, one species eats bamboo shoots, and one species eats leaves. This is an example of
Resource Partitioning
When energy is transferred between trophic levels, the amount of energy lost is about
90%
When is a species considered invasive
When there is a lack of limiting factors and population growth soars unchecked.
The annual Thanksgiving parade held in Times Square is put on by what large Department store
In order for allopatric speciation to occur, species must
be seperated for a LONG time
On islands off the coast of Siberia, paleontologists have found the remains of pygmy mammoths. These populations were likely separated from mainland mammoth populations and became a new type of mammoth through which type of speciation?
Allopatric Speciation
Most of the energy in a trophic level is lost as ......
heat
The building of a community where bare rock, sand, or sediment is exposed for the first time.
Primary Succession
Originally, the pilgrims did not eat turkey on the first thanksgiving. What large bird did they eat?
Duck/Goose
On islands off the coast of Siberia, paleontologists have found the remains of pygmy mammoths. These populations were likely separated from mainland mammoth populations and became a new type of mammoth through which type of speciation?
Allopatric Speciation
Around 65 million years ago, 95 percent of the planet's species were wiped out, and the age of the dinosaurs ended. Which of the following best explains why we still have numerous species today?
The species that exist today evolved from surviving species to fill niches left vacant by the dinosaurs.
An organism that consumers nonliving organic matter (only consumes)
Detritivore
The first species to colonize newly exposed land are called
pioneer species