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Vocabulary
100

What is a Biome?

What is a large area with a specific climate and organisms that have adapted to those conditions?

100

True or False:  humans continue to evolve, but other animals have stopped evolving.


What is False?

100

This a term for an organism having a NATURAL BEHAVIOR or Instinct

What is Innate?

100
Natural Selection has also been called this
What is survival of the fittest?
100
A species that no longer exists is said to be this
What is extinct?
200
Why would plants in the Grasslands have narrow leaves?

What is to lose less water?

200

Name for a characteristic of an organism

What is a trait?  

200
Failure to adapt results in this
What is extinction?
200
Parents pass their traits on to these
What are offspring?
200
differences in traits within a species
What are variations?
300

Name an adaptation that plants have in the Tropical Rainforest.

Any is correct:

1. Plants grow on each other to reach the sun

2. Large leaves to gather lots of sunlight

3. Prop roots in shallow soil

4. Waxy Surfaces to allow water to run off

300

The term opposite of Nocturnal.

what is Diurnal?

300
a gecko's ability to change color to blend in with it's environment is a trait called this
what is camouflage?
300
Who is credited with discovering the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
300

This is a permanent change in an organism's DNA sequence.

What is a Mutation?

400

What is a challenge that plants have in the Deciduous Forest?

What is surviving ALL the climates?

400

This size of animals usually have FEW offspring due to a wide availability of food and less competition.

What are Large Animals?

400

These are the three ways Organisms breathe (the ways we mentioned in class)

What are Gills, Lungs, and Skin?

400

Why is studying Natural Selection Important?

What is it explains how species change over time?
400

The body's ability to maintain a stable internal environment

What is homeostasis?

500

Name all of the Biomes that we discussed 

What is Tundra, Taiga, Desert, Grassland, Deciduous Forest, Tropical Rainforest, and Savanna? 

500

Which Biome do we live in (Virginia)?

What is the Deciduous Forest?

500

Having this determines if a plant is vascular or not.

What is Xylem and Phloem?

500
Why can't a horse produce an offspring with a cow?
What is they are not the same species?
500

One organism produces heat on their OWN for warmth. 

The other RELIES on sunlight/external heat for warmth.

What are Endothermic and Ectothermic?