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Changes in Ecosystem
Changes in species
Changes = more changes
Inherited vs Acquired
100

When there is no more members of a species or kind.

What is Extinct

100

This is the one of the effect of garbage and pollution. 

What is acid rain?

100
Percentage of DNA that comes from each parent.

What is 50%

100

Medicine used to kill bacteria.

What is an Antibiotic?

100

Define inherit.

What is to "receive" aka - Genes that get passed on from parent to offspring
200

This is a poison that kills insects.

What is Pesticide?

200
These are the affects of acid rain.

What is damaged trees, plans, and hurt animals.

200
One structural adaptation a frog.
What are suction cups on toes, poison slime, green skin.
200

This is one reason pesticides are good and one reason they are bad.

What is they are good because they kill infectious bugs like mosquitos. They are bad because they are chemicals that might affect other populations.

200

List 3 inherited traits 

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300

This is another word for an "instinct"

What is a inherited behavioral adaptation?

300

This is what people can do to not change ecosystems.

What is take care of the environment, recycles, and use less pollutants?
300

Besides DNA this affects how plants and animals look and grow. Give at least 1 example.

What is the Ecosystem?

How a plant - leaf color- weather

Flamingos - eat shrimp to turn pink

hydrangea (flower) color because  of soil

300

This is how long ago the Great Auk has been extinct. (They last discovered around 1844).

What is 180 years ago?
300

 List 3 acquired traits.

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400

Define Structural Adaptation

What is a change in they body or how an organism looks like. 

400

List and explain 2 ways ecosystem changes are not harmful.

What are worms digging to change soil and add oxygen and Beaver dams make pods which are new safe homes for other organisms?
400

This is the difference between structural adaptations and behavioral adaptations.

What is structural is a change in an organisms body or what they look like, and behavioral is a change in a organisms actions or what they do. 

400
Reason why building a city is good for large birds.

What is that they create high spaces for them to nest, find food like pigeons, rats, and other rodents, and can easily find water to drink.

500

Describe how a mutation occurs and one way they are helpful, one way they are harmful, and one way that it is neutral.

What is a change in the DNA of the parent that gets passed onto the offspring? See student examples

500

List 2 ways new species can be introduced to an ecosystem and an example for each. Explain why its harmful.

What is on purpose - garlic mustard and on accident, Zebra mussels. Its harmful because they don't have natural predators in the new ecosystems so they overpopulate.
500

Describe acquired behavioral traits that you have learned to help you be safe and do better in school.

What is staying quiet, study skills, not touching hot things?... See student answers
500

Describe what fossils tell us.

What is that they show us which species are still around and which ones have gone instinct. They can learn about the past, and past ecosystems that used to be around that area.