What are the 3 limiting factors we studied in class?
food space weather
100
What is the struggle to survive in a habitat with limited resources?
competition
200
What are the 5 abiotic factors?
water, sunlight, soil, temperature, oxygen
200
What is the study of how living things are classified?
taxonomy
200
What is the broadest level of classification?
kingdom
200
What is an organisms particular role?
niche
200
What kind of symbiotic relationship does a clown fish and an aneome have?
mutualism
300
What is the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment?
ecology
300
Who discovered evolution?
Charles Darwin
300
What is the naming system Linneas creates?
binomial nomenclature
300
Leaving an area is called...
emigration
300
What kind of relationship is a shark catching and eating a fish?
predation
400
What is one characteristic all living things share?
1. made of cells
2. contain similar chemicals
3. use energy
4. grow and develop
5. respond to their surroundings
6. reproduce
400
What is evolution?
how a species gradually changes over time
400
What are the two parts to a species scientific name?
genus and species
400
The major way a population increases is...
birth rate
400
What kind of symbiotic relationship is a flea on a dog?
paracitism
500
What is one thing scientists believe was true about the first life forms on earth?
1. unicellular
2. did not need oxygen
3. lived in water
4. heterotrophs that absorbed chemicals and later turned to autotrophs that released oxygen as a waste product
5. were similar to bacteria today
500
What do scientist look at when they are tring to find evolutionary history
body structure
500
What kingdom can be uni and multicellular?
protists
500
Behaviors and physical characteristics that allow an organism to live successfully are...
adaptations
500
What type of symbiotic relationship is a bird living in a nest in a tree?