Trophic Levels
The Flow of energy is....
Linear
What is an animal that kills and eats other animals?
Predator
What factors limit the size of a population?
Food and water, predators, and shelter
Which biome is known to have more rainy weather?
Tropical Forest
Which evolutionary evidence can you use to dispute the claim that evolution occurs too slowly to be observed?
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics
Energy is passed from primary consumers to secondary consumers via what?
Consumption
What is a autotroph?
An organism that makes its own food by photosynthesis and or chemosynthesis
What is the study of the interaction of organisms and their environment?
Ecology
What would the name of a biome be if it has cold weather, and light snowfall?
Tundra
What increases fitness of a species by territory selection?
Access to mates, food availability, and camouflage
What does the original source of energy come from?
The sun
The flow of H2O, Carbon, and Nitrogen is.....
Cyclic
What do you call a group of organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring?
A Species
Which biome is located near the equator?
Tropical Rain forest
Forelimbs of humans and bats are ______ structures that support common ancestry and adaptations for different movements.
homologous, vestigial, analogous, matching
What do food chains show the flow of?
Energy
What trophic level produces its own energy using the energy from the sun?
Producers
What is an example of an abiotic limiting factor of a population?
Soil and Weather
Is it true that deserts rain a lot?
Flase
Today, what provides the best evidence for determining evolutionary relatedness among humans and other primates?
DNA sequences
What is a heterotroph?
An organism that gets its food by eating other organisms
On average, how much energy is passed on to the next trophic level from the previous?
10%
What is an example of a biotic limiting factor of a population?
Predators and Mountains
Which biome covers about one fifth of our planet?
Desert
Most of us must have our wisdom teeth extracted. What term describes features of ancestors that become lost over time?
vestigial, homologous, analogous, and missing