Definitions
What is biodiversity?
What is the purpose of taxonomy?
To be able to classify and distinguish between different living things.
What are the five types of vertebrates?
Mammals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians
What are three types of invertebrates?
Annelids, Echinoderms, Anthropods, Mollusc, Porifera, and Cnidaria
What are autotrophs? Example + 1 Characteristic.
Producers, make their own food, sunflower.
Why is it important to have biodiversity?
Food
Economy
Disease
Water Quality
What is an example of genetic diversity?
Humans- different hair color, eye color, skin color, tone of voice, etc.
What is one similarity between birds and mammals?
What is characteristic and example of a annelid?
Soft, worms.
What are heterotrophs? Example + Characteristic.
consumers, lions, catch their food.
Community- interactions between only living things
Ecosystem- interactions between living things as well as interactions between non-living and living things.
What is an example of a hotspot?
Tropical Rainforest.
What are two differences between birds and amphibians?
Birds have feathers, while amphibians have scales.
What is a characteristic of and an example of anthropods?
What are detritivores? Example + Characteristic
Decomposers, eat decaying plant matter, worms
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors? Give an example of each.
Biotic- living (animals, plants)
Abiotic- non-living (sunlight, rocks)
What is the difference between endothermic and ectothermic?
Endo- warm blooded
Ecto- cold blooded
What is a similarity and difference between fish and reptiles?
Fish live underwater only and have gills.
Reptiles and fish are both cold blooded (ectothermic).
What is a characteristic of and an example of cnidaria?
Stingling cells, jellyfish
What are the three types of animals? + an example of each.
Carnivores, Omnivores, and Herbivores.