Characteristics of Life
This is what all living things are made of.
What are cells?
These organisms live mostly underground, breaking down dead organisms and absorbing their nutrients.
What are fungi?
These animals have fur and produce milk.
What are mammals?
This is all the members of a species living in a particular area.
What is a population?
These are the most abundant sea creatures.
What are plankton?
This is the part of a cell that separates it from the environment.
What is the membrane?
This is the process that makes plants different from fungi.
What is photosynthesis?
These vertebrates are warm-blooded and have no teeth.
What are birds?
This is the role a species plays in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Sharks and rays have a skeleton that is made of this material.
What is cartilage?
This is the pigment that makes plants green.
What is chlorophyll?
This is how fungi reproduce.
What are spores?
This features allows fish to breathe underwater.
What are gills?
These are the 2 factors that make up an ecosystem.
What are biotic and abiotic?
These are the 2 bodies of water that surround Florida.
What are the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean?
This is what makes a eukaryotic cell different from a prokaryotic cell.
These are the two products of photosynthesis.
What are glucose and oxygen?
This is what it's called called when an animal has to regulate their body temperature externally.
What is cold-blooded?
This is the type of ecological relationship in which one species kills and eats members of another species.
What is predation?
These are plants or animals that are not native to an area.
What are invasive species?
These are the 5 characteristics of living things.
What are needing energy, made of cells, respond to environment, grow and reproduce, and maintain a stable internal environment?
These plants have special tissue that allow them to transport water and nutrients.
What are vascular plants?
This is the process that amphibians go through as larva.
What is metamorphosis?
These organisms include plants and algae that can make their own food.
What are producers?
These are 3 things that characterize aquatic ecosystems.
What are sunlight, dissolved oxygen, nutrients, and/or salts?