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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Usually written on one line.
Food chain
All the living and non-living things that interact in an area.
Ecosystem
Name a difference between the Animal and Plant kingdoms
Ex: animals being heterotrophs and plants being autotrophic
Define adaptation
A trait that helps an organism survive
A group of landmasses with similar abiotic (temp or precipitation) and biotic factors (plants, animals, or fungi)
Biome
The definition of biodiversity is...
the variety of different organisms living in a certain area
A close relationship; one species benefits, the other doesn't benefit but isn't harmed
Commensalism
Name the 6 kingdoms
Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully; also called natural selection
Survival of the fittest
Lakes, ponds, and rivers are examples of ...
Freshwater Biome
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
Deciduous
A type of organism that consumes mostly decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant matter.
Scavenger
What is the most diverse kingdom
Protista
What evolved in the Galapagos finches and why?
150 points: beaks
150 points: to be able to access the different types of foods on the various islands
The Biome that gets the least rainfall (double points if you get how little it is)
Desert (lower than 10 in. or 25 cm.)
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated or transferred.
energy pyramid
Oxpeckers eat parasitic ticks off the backs of large grassland mammals. This is an example of what kind of symbiotic relationship.
Mutualism
All kingdoms that (could) be Autotrophic
Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protist, Plant
Say a Polar Bear thrives in a Tundra environment. Name two adaptations they would have to fit the environment
Ex: Blubber and camouflage
most diverse and hottest terrestrial biome, biome near the equator with warm climate wet weather and lush plant growth
Tropical rainforest
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
predation
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer ?
90% lost
(only 10% is passed onto the next trophic level)
How did Aristotle classify living things?
Plants: small, medium, large (by size)
Animals: land, sky, and water (where they live)
is an organ or bone structure that appears similar in two unrelated organisms
homologous structures
Which biome is also referred to as a prairie?
grasslands