Darwin Would Be Proud
Biodiversity
Vocabulary From 9th Grade Bio
Go Figure
Name the Organism
100
This concept is also described as "survival of the fittest".
What is natural selection?
100
the variety of life on earth
What is biodiversity?
100
the study of how living organisms interact with each other and with their physical environment
What is ecology?
100
What is the carrying capacity of this leopard seal population?
What is 7,500?
100
We saw evolution happen during the Industrial Revolution in this species.
What is the peppered moth?
200
Humans breeding dogs to produce certain breeds or characteristics is an example of what?
What is artificial selection?
200
Biodiversity tends to increase as you move from the polar regions to this imaginary line.
What is the equator?
200
a group of organisms of the same species living in the same area
What is a population?
200
The largest percent reduction of living budworms in this table occurs due to what?
What is dispersal?
200
This state fish population is in decline due to invasive species.
What is the cutthroat trout?
300
a mechanism of evolution where the frequency of traits in a population changes over time due to random chance
What is genetic drift?
300
This occurs when biodiversity is lost.
What is extinction?
300
What is a cladogram?
300
According to this table, what type of mathematical relationship exists between the deer and wolf populations?
What is an inverse relationship?
300
This is Miss Legg's favorite North American bird. It is a secondary consumer because, in addition to eating fruit, it listens for tasty worms moving under the soil and extricates them with its beak.
What is the American robin?
400
A small group of birds becomes separated from the mainland and establishes a population on an island, and the new population has different allele frequencies than the original population.
What is the founder effect?
400
Give me caffeine! These two popular consumable crops are grown together in Costa Rica to help maintain biodiversity of the ecosystem.
What are coffee and chocolate?
400
a permanent change in the DNA or RNA sequence of an organism's genome
What is a mutation?
400
Ladybugs are carnivorous! At what level of this ecological pyramid should they be placed?
What is the secondary consumer level.
400
This apex predator inhabits western and central Australia.
What is the dingo?
500
This occurs when biodiversity is drastically reduced after a natural disaster.
What is the bottleneck effect?
500
A forest is divided into several small patches by roads and housing developments. What threat to biodiversity does this illustrate?
What is habitat fragmentation/urbanization?
500
one of two or more alternative versions or forms of a gene at a specific location on a chromosome
What is an allele?
500
Grass populations growing near contaminated mine sites evolve metal tolerance, while adjacent populations on normal soil do not. This results in the formation of new species (speciation). What type of speciation occurs for this example?
What is parapatric?
500
New research suggests a volcanic eruption resulted in the spread of this bacteria, which ultimately caused the Black Plague in Europe.
What is Yersinia pestis?