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Ecosystems
Natural Selection
Producers
Consumers
Mixed Bag
100
The non-living components of an ecosystem
What is the abiotic component
100
The man credited with discovering the process of Evolution by Natural Selection
Who is Charles Darwin
100
The process by which sunlight, oxygen, and CO2 are converted into sugar
What is Photosynthesis
100
The three types of animal adaptations
What are structural, physiological, and behavioral
100
The first name of your instructor
What is Alex
200
Organisms that form the base of a food chain.
What are primary consumers
200
What is the model organism used to describe natural selection?
What is Darwin's Galapagos finches
200
The five main components of a plant
What are the roots, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruits/seeds
200
The consumer within an ecosystem that is highest in the food chain
What is the apex predator
200
Another name for a Primary Consumer
What is an herbivore
300
Organisms that can only harvest about 10 percent of the energy contained in what they eat
What are consumers
300
The three conditions for Evolution by Natural Selection to occur
What are 1. Variation, 2. Heredity, and 3. Differential Fitness
300
The part of the plant that a potato is
What is the stem
300
The phenomenon where removing species from one trophic level has an impact on several other trophic levels
What is a trophic cascade
300
The species of bird that made all of the sounds in the forest video
What is the Lyre bird
400
Ecological processes that control the fluxes of energy, nutrients and organic matter through an environment.
What are ecosystem functions
400
A measure of how successful an organism is at surviving and reproducing
What is fitness
400
Plants that are commonly found in environments with poor soil quality
What are carnivorous plants or Venus flytraps or pitcher plants
400
A species that has a disproportionately large effect on its environment compared to its relative abundance.
What is a keystone species
400
The existence of a wide range of different types of organisms in a given place.
What is Biodiversity
500
The most common limiting nutrient in natural ecosystems
What is Phosphorus
500
The scientist with the competing theory about how evolution takes place
Who is Lamarck
500
The main advantage of lily pads residing in water instead of on land
What is less competition for resources
500
The benefits for humans that arise from healthy ecosystems, typically resulting from the presence of consumers
What are ecosystem services
500
What is your instructors last name
What is Moore