Biomes
What biome contains the most sand?
Desert.
What is the process of plants making their own food?
Photosynthesis
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats another organism
What is a food web?
The interweaving of multiple food chains
What mammal is able to lay eggs?
Platypus
What biome contains the most biodiversity?
Tropical Rainforest
What is the waste product of photosynthesis?
Oxygen
What is a carnivore?
An animal that only eats meat.
What does it mean to be abiotic?
Never was alive and is not alive.
What are the smallest habitats called?
Microhabitats.
This biome experiences all 4 seasons.
What is the temperate deciduous forest?
Majority of plants are considered what in the food chain?
Producers
What is a carrying capacity?
The maximum number of a specific species that an environment can have.
What is the title given to the animal on top of the food chain.
Apex predator
How many bones are in the human body?
206
What biome is on every continent other than Antarctica?
Grassland
The process of when a plant releases water vapor through it's leaves.
What is transpiration?
Give 5 examples of an omnivore.
Answers vary. Ex: Bear, bird, dog, raccoon, foxes, monkey, Sea turtle
What is the term that describes that everything with return to normal numbers should a species have a sudden wipe of population?
equilibrium
What state is the most biodiverse in the US?
Alaska.
This biome is the largest land based biome on the planet.
What is the Tiaga?
What is the chemical formula for glucose, the sugar made by photosynthesis?
C6 H12 O6
List the 3 key things that would effect the carrying capacity of an environment.
Food, water, shelter
Mr. Jones has an eye disease that is called what?
Keratoconus.
What are the 4 branches of life science? (Hint: Life, really tiny life, animals, plants)
Biology, Microbiology, Zoology, Botany.