Type of adaptation in which a beetle closely resembles a stinging wasp and lives in the same ecosystem
What is mimicry
100
What happens to energy that is not available to other organisms in an energy pyramid?
What is lost to the environment as heat
100
What has most likely absorbed most of the excess carbon released by combustion
What is plants
100
Aquatic environment which contains organisms that thrive in water with varying salt concentrations
What is estuary
100
Spread of disease in a rabbit population is this type of factor
What is density-dependent
200
Organisms with traits well-suited to their environment survive and reproduce at a great rate than organisms that are less well adapted in the same environment. What is this known as?
What is natural selection
200
A frog consumes a fly. What two items are being transferred?
What is energy and nutrients
200
A new island formed by volcanic action may eventually become populated with biotic communities as a result of
What is ecological succession
200
Biome that has cold winters, located along northern latitudes, patchy permafrost, drought-resistant plants, and numerous lakes, ponds, rives, and bogs
What is taiga
200
An example of a density-independent factor for rainbow trout
What is size of stream
300
The __________ record provides evidence that evolution has occurred, but the record is not complete.
What is fossil
300
What determines whether an organism is an autotroph or a heterotroph?
What is how it obtains food
300
Precipitation and evaporation are important components of what biogeochemical cycle
What is water
300
Biome characterized by a high level of nutrients and a dark, thick layer of topsoil
What is grassland
300
Sequence of levels of organization in biosphere from most complex to least complex
What is ecosystem, community, population, organism
400
In a pond, the primary producer is a green alga, Spirogyra. The primary consumer is the crustacean, Daphnia. The secondary consumer is a small fish, the blue gill. The tertiary consumer is a larger fish, the smallmouth bass. What changes can be expected in the pond if the Daphnia are killed with pesticides?
What is the smallmouth bass population will decrease
400
Which organisms would most likely be found at the bottom of an energy pyramid?
What is producers like green algae
400
Organisms which consume plants and which when dead are broken down by fungi and then decomposed by bacteria
What is animals
400
Symbiotic relationship between a dog and a flea
What is parasitism
500
What will most likely happen if all the primary consumers are removed from an ecosystem?
What is secondary consumer populations will decrease
500
Identify the path that best illustrates one way energy travels through a forest ecosystem consisting of a mouse, owl, plant, snake, and sun
What is sun, plant, mouse, snake, owl
500
List three things recycled in the biosphere
What is water, carbon, and nitrogen
500
Symbiotic relationship between plants and the bees that pollinate them