Food Web/Chain
Biomes/Biodiversity
Natural Selection/Adaptations
Natural Selection/Adaptations
Succession
100
The correct order of energy flow in a food chain.
Producer to herbivore to carnivore
100
Does an increase or decrease in biodiversity contribute to the sustainability of an ecosystem?
Increase in biodiversity
100
True or false, an ecosystem that has no restrictions on light and water will contain an abundance of variety of producers.
True
100
Male peacocks have colorful, feathered tails that are used to do this.
What is attract a mate (a behavioral adaptation)?
100
After a volcanic eruption covers a wide area of the forest with ash, lava and volcanic rock. This is the first thing that happens that helps return biotic factors to the community.
What is lichens grow on the rocks?
200
Organism in the food chain below that is responsible for transforming radiant energy into chemical energy.
A. Shrub
B. Bacteria
C. Wolf
D. Rodent
A. shrub
200
Leaves with drip tips, climbing vines, smooth bark; buttress roots; dense canopy that promotes dense plant competition is describing this biome.
Rainforest
200
This structural adaptation in penguins is what allows them to tolerate the cold temperatures in their environment.
What is blubber (thick layer of fat)?
200
Ranchers have used this process to produce cattle that do not have horns.
What is selective breeding?
200
This is how biodiversity of ecosystems are rebuilt through natural stages.
This is ecological succession.
300
Organisms that breakdown organic material.
Decomposers
300
The biome with the highest level of biodiversity.
What is the rainforest?
300
Hummingbirds have long, slender beaks that they use to feed on the nectar of deep-throated flowers. This is what will happen to a hummingbird that is born with a genetic mutation that results in a short, stout beak.
What is it will not live as long as other hummingbirds because it will struggle to obtain food?
300
This adaptation in the internal structure of birds allows them to successfully fulfill their niche.
What are hollow bones so that they can fly?
300
A forest fire has wiped out all of the plant life in an area, causing the animals to leave. The ground has become a mixture of soil and ashes. This is the correct order of succession for plants after the fire.
Grasses to shrubs to softwood tress to hardwood trees
400
Species A is a deer and species B is a wolf. This one is the highest on the food chain.
What is species B?
400
A bear in Washington hibernates longer than a bear in Florida. This is the reason for the big difference in their hibernation periods.
Florida does not have as cold of winters as Washington and has food available all year long.
400
Plants have many internal adaptations that help them survive. This is the specific function of a plant’s xylem.
What is xylem transports water and minerals from the soil up to the plant.
400
This is why animals migrate (a behavioral adaptation) from one place to another.
What is to find an environment where more food and water is available?
400
A vegetable garden goes unattended for a few weeks. This will be the first organism to take over the area.
What is weeds?
500
This is the correct order of level of organization starting with cells.
What is cell to tissue to organ to organ system to organism?
500
This ecosystem would most likely survive if the grasses were destroyed by a plant virus.
500
The location of the eyes of a mammal is often related to whether it is a predatory or prey animal. Predators usually have eyes that are close together and face forward, while the eyes of prey animals are further apart and are often located on the sides of the head. The eyes of prey species are MOST likely adapted
to —
What is allow them to see over a wider area to detect predators?
500
There are 5 different species of the Texas state flower the bluebonnet. Each flower is found in a different region of Texas and has slightly different traits. This most likely accounts for this variation.
What is natural selection?
500
True or false: Changing of seasons will trigger ecological succession in an area.
False