Environment
Miscellaneous
Darwin's Finches
Darwin's Lab
Systems and Matter
100
A rock is an example of a (biotic/abiotic) aspect of the environment
What is abiotic?
100
The last step of the scientific method
What is reporting conclusions?
100
What are the Galapagos Islands?
100
How well a species is fit to survive in a particular environment - the mechanism underlying natural selection that drives evolution
What is survival of the fittest?
100
The measurement of matter in an object
What is mass?
200
Refers to the amount of different ecosystems within a particular region
What is ecosystem biodiversity?
200
Naming system for species
What is binomial nomeclature?
200
Groups with the same ancestral population evolving into two species due to a period of geographic isolation
What is allopatric speciation?
200
Competition within the same species
What is intraspecies competition?
200
The subatomic particle with a negative charge
What is an electron?
300
Fungi is an example of which kind of taxonomical group?
What is a kingdom?
300
The scientific notation of 97,000
What is 9.7 x 10^ 4?
300
Change in the frequency of an allele
What is evolution?
300
The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in traits in individuals
What is natural selection?
300
Atoms of the same element with different amounts of neutrons
What are isotopes?
400
Branching diagram depicting hypothetical relationships between species
What is a cladogram?
400
Creating a graph would be an example of this step
What is visualizing results?
400
How far the Galapagos Islands are from the Coast of Ecuador
What is 1000 km?
400
The lemurs of Madagascar are an example of this
What are endemic species?
400
The chemical bonds responsible for the adhesion and cohesion properties found in water
What are hydrogen bonds?
500
Species that became extinct during the "Ice Age" faced this kind of extinction
What is natural extinction?
500
Energy use, reproduction, sensitivity to environment/stimuli
What are the items that constitutes a living being?
500
The scientists that proved that evolution can occur by natural selection at very small scales
Who are Peter and Rosemary Grant?
500
The set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from its genotype interacting with its environment.
What is phenotype?
500
The "skin" formed on the surface of water due to cohesion of water molecules
What is surface tension?