Ecological Succession
Cells & Their Functions
Adaptations & Survival
Energy Flow in Ecosystems
Reproduction
100
After a volcanic eruption, this type of succession occurs.
What is primary succession?
100
This organelle carries out photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
100
Beak shape in birds is this type of adaptation.
What is a structural adaptation?
100
As energy moves up trophic levels, this happens to the amount of available energy.
What is it decreases?
100
This type of reproduction produces identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
200
After a forest fire, this type of succession occurs.
What is secondary succession?
200
This organelle stores water and helps maintain pressure in plant cells, supporting their structure.
What is the vacuole?
200
When individuals with beneficial traits survive and reproduce more often, this process is occurring.
What is natural selection?
200
This is the group at the base of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
200
This type of reproduction increases genetic variation.
What is sexual reproduction?
300
Lichens and mosses are examples of this type of group.
What are pioneer species?
300
If these structures stopped functioning, the cell could no longer build proteins needed for growth and repair.
What are ribosomes?
300
Migration is an example of this type of adaptation.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
300
This is the term for the total mass of living organic matter in a given area or trophic level.
What is biomass?
300
These structures contain genes that determine inherited traits.
What are chromosomes?
400
This is the term for the stable, final stage of an ecosystem that forms after succession is complete.
What is a climax community?
400
This is the name and function of the organelle labeled 2.
What is the mitochondria and energy production.
400
This is the term for differences in traits among individuals.
What is variation?
400
This explains why only a small percentage of energy is passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is the 10% rule - energy is lost as heat?
400
These are segments of DNA that code for specific traits.
What are genes?
500
This concept describes how several different species in an ecosystem perform the same role.
What is functional redundancy?
500
This is the name and function of the organelle labeled 12.
What is the cell wall and structure/function/defense from pathogens?
500
A species with little variation is exposed to a sudden environmental change.
This predicts what will most likely happen to the population.
What is the population may decrease or go extinct?
500
This type of organism converts sunlight into chemical energy and provides energy for all other trophic levels (hint: producers)
What is an autotroph?
500
If genes are changed or mutated, this will most likely be affected in the organism.
What are traits?