Early Beginnings
A community of biotic and biotic factors working together in a given environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Any physical or behavioral characteristic of an organism that helps them survive in their ecosystem.
What is an adaptation?
A plant or animal that is seriously at risk of becoming extinct.
What is an Endangered Species?
One thing that gets energy directly from the sun and makes food.
What is a plant or tree?
The state Morgan is from.
What is Texas?
An individual animal, plant, or single celled life form : organism as a place or type of place where an organism lives : ______.
What is habitat?
One example of an endangered species.
What is: Blue Whale, Giant Panda, Black Rhinoceros, North Atlantic Right Whale, Bornean Orangutang, Monarch Butterfly, etc?
The process of using water, carbon dioxide and sunlight to make glucose and oxygen.
The name of the other wonderful educator from the first semester.
Who is JB?
Three biotic factors that you could find outside our windows.
What are people, pets, insects, trees, fungus, flowers, etc?
One example of mimicry in any animal species.
What is a bear cub climbing a tree, ducks learning to fly, coyotes learning what to eat, lion cubs play fighting, etc?
Three adaptations an owl uses to capture its prey.
What are: nocturnal eyesight, sharp talons, silent flight, great hearing?
The number of different species in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
The information you can get from a tree cookie.
What is: tree age, forest fires, branch loss, drought, heavy winds, etc?
The full name of the program of which today is the last day.
What is the Winter Ecology Program?
Invasive species disrupt ecosystems when they are introduced, while _______ _____ find a niche in an ecosystem that they don't originate but with little consequences.
What are Non-native Species?
The process that an owl goes through to eat and digest food.
What is consumes prey by swallowing whole, digests edible parts, coughs up owl pellets?
The biggest reason that species are becoming endangered.
What is habitat loss?
The two male parts of a flower.
What is the anther and filament?
The place the other educator calls home.
Where is Long Island?
A role or job of an organism in its environment.
What is a niche?
One adaptation that we observed from looking at the furs/skins of animals.
What are camouflage/protection/warmth?
The evidence an owl pellet provides scientists with.
What is diet/role in ecosystem/rodent health?
One example of an invasive species in New York?
What is: Spotted Lantern Fly, Japanese Knotweed, Phragmites, Green Anaconda,, etc?
One difference between deciduous trees and coniferous trees.
What is: coniferous produce cones instead of flowers and fruits, leaves stay green & on year-round instead of dropping their leaves seasonally, thin “needle” like leaves instead of broad and flat shaped leaves?
The name of Christodora's camp in Massachusetts.
What is the Manice Education Center?
What is air, Sun, water, minerals, soil, and temperature?
Ways you tell an animal is a predator just by looking at its skull.
Eye sockets facing forward, sharp teeth.
Three different bird species found in NYC.
What are: Red-tailed hawk, Peregrine falcon, Ruby-throated hummingbird, Barred owl, American kestrel, Rock Dove/Pigeon, European starling, American robin?
A form of hunting where the hunter's primary goal is to obtain a trophy, like the head, horns, or hide, of a hunted animal and is a primary reason for endangerment.
What is trophy hunting?
The scientific term for something that can produce its own food.
The name of Morgan's orange cat.
Who is Charlie?
Create a potential NYC food chain including 5 different species.
What is: Grass --> caterpillar --> frog --> snake --> eagle --> mushroom?
One physical adaptation that an NYC predator might have to capture/kill its prey.
What is claws, speed, sharp teeth, big eyes and location of eyes, camouflage, sense of hearing/smell, etc?
The scientific name for a raptor's muscular stomach.
What is a gizzard?
The term used to describe the process of splitting up a habitat through fencing and installing roads.
What is fragmentation?
The two main differences between a plant cell and an animal cell.
What are double cell walls and chloroplasts?
One of the universities Morgan has attended.
What is UCSB or NYU?