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Vocabulary
Kingdoms of Life
Darwin
Energy Transfer in Ecosystems
Other
100
Define population
What is members of the same species living in the same place at the same time
100
How many kingdoms do most scientists classify life into?
6
100
What is the change in genes/traits over time?
What is evolution?
100
What kinds of organisms get their energy directly from the sun?
What is plants/producers
100
Would a vacant lot be considered an ecosystem? Why or why not?
Yes, still home to a variety of insects, bacteria, and weeds
200
Factors such as soil, temperature, and rainfall in an environment are what kind of factors?
What is abiotic factors
200
An angiosperm is a type of what?
What is plant, More specifically a flowering plant
200
Humans selectively breeding for certain traits is known as what? Give an example.
What is artificial selection? Ex. hybrids like the mule or liger, dog breeds, modern corn, the mustard plant
200
What kind of organism gets their energy INDIRECTLY from the sun
What is consumers
200
What is the difference between a food chain and food web?
Food chain only shows one pathway. food web shows multiple and shows the complexity of an ecosystem
300
Give 5 organisms that would make up a community in the following:
What is frog, turtle, deer, lilypad, fern, flowers, hawk, fish, ladybug, beetle, etc.
300
What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate?
What is the presence of a backbone
300
What is natural selection?
"survival of the fittest"/ the environment's impacts on a species traits
300
What are the 4 types of consumers? What does each eat?
What is herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, decomposer
300
Choose any organism and describe 3 of its adaptations. Explain how each adaptation might help it survive.
Ex. Chameleon
400
What do you call the place where an organism lives and that has the resources the organism needs?
What is habitat
400
What kind of organism would you expect to find at the hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean (a particularly harsh environment)?
What is archaebacteria.
400
Where did Darwin travel to on the HMS beagle and what did he study?
What is the galapagos finches
400
How are photosynthesis and cellular respiration related?
What is one makes sugars (photosynthesis) and the other breaks them down into energy (cellular respiration)
400
How did DDT almost cause the extinction of top consumers in a marine food chain?
What is more and more poison became concentrated as it moved up the food chain
500
Define Ecosystem.
What is both the living and nonliving components of an environment
500
What are the characteristics of protists?
Single and multicelled, very diverse, form backbone of marine ecosystems
500
Give an example of how natural selection could weed out a trait over time
Ex. Lions with sharper claws survive, lions with dull claws would die off because they can't compete
500
What happens to 90% of energy as it moves up trophic levels?
What is lost as heat or used in cellular processes
500
Why is it so important to finish your antibiotics when you are sick?
What is bacteria develop resistance and are harder to kill the next time