Cardiovascular System
Charles Darwin
Food &
Energy
Populations & ecosystems
Vocabulary
100
Your heart is about this size.
What is the size of your fist?
100
This was Darwin's mystery or mysteries.
What is how new species came into being?
100
These are three nutrients needed by the human body.
What are carbohydrates, fats, porteins, vitamins, minerals, and water?
100
Give examples of two larkey features and four traits.
What are legs: long or short eyes: red or gray fur: spotted, striped or solid tail: busy or bare
100
Define biotic and abiotic.
What is biotic means living and abiotic means nonliving?
200
Another name for the cardiovascular system is this.
What is the circulatory system?
200
Darwin noticed that some years there were more finches with small beaks and other years there were more finches with larger beaks. The reason was . . .
Wet years meant more grass seed grew that smaller beak birds could easily eat and big beak birds could not, so small beak birds ate more and laid more eggs with small beak offspring. Dry years meant large beak birds were more successful at staying healthy so there there were more egg from big beak birds.
200
Your body needs food to do these necesary tasks. (ame at least 2.)
What is growing, repairing tissues, and providing energy to do activities.
200
A = short legs a = long legs AA male x aa female will result in offspring with ____%
What is 100 short leg offspring?
200
Define consumer and producer.
What is a consumer is an animals that must eat to get energy. A producer is a plant that makes its own food by using the sun's energy.
300
These are the three main parts of the cardiovascular or circulatory system.
What are the heart, blood vessels, and blood cells?
300
Darwin observed that one island had large marine iguanas and another island had small marine iguanas. Small size was a good adaption for this reason.
What is there was less food on the second island, so small iguanas did not need to eat as much and so could survive on less while large iguanas could not.
300
This is how fat can be helpful to the body.
What is that fatty tissues protect and support your internal organs and acts as insulation to keep heat inside your body?
300
Larkeys were forced from their homes by fire. Long legged and short legged larkeys moved to the praire, but a year later observers saw almost no short legged larkeys. They also saw no spotted larkeys. Why?
What is short legged larkeys could not run fast enough to escape predators and spotted larkeys could not camouflage themselves in the grass and so were caught?
300
Decomposers do this.
What is eat the remains of all dead organism and return their nutrients to the environment?
400
These are the three jobs of the cardiovascular system.
What is to move materials like oxygen and glucose, to remove wastes like CO2, and to carry disease fighters?
400
Originally, all iguanas lived on land. On the Galapagos Islands, there are marine iguanas. Scientist belive marine iguanas evolved because . . .
What is there was limited food on the island, but there was lots of algea in the sea for those iguanas that were adapted to swim.
400
If you had 20 grams of a carbohydrate this is how many calories you would have consumed.
What is 20 x 4 = 80 calories?
400
These are four populations found at Mono Lake.
What are algea, plankton, brine shrimp, brine flies, gulls, tern, plover, pharalope, coyote, halobacteria?
400
Order these terms from smallest to largest: community, ecosystem, individual, population
What is individual, population, ecosystem, ecosystem?
500
The cardiovascular system interacts with two other body systems to provide oxygen and food to the cells. Those two other body systems are . . .
What are the respiratory system and the digestive system?
500
Masked boobies do not guard their chicks or prevent them from attacking each other. Why are these bad parenting behaviors actually helpful to the larger population of masked boobies?
What is with only one chick surviving there is enough food to feed the parents and chick. Extra chicks would mean less food for everyone.
500
Whole grain bread is made of complex carbohydrates and white bread is made of simplier carbohydrates. This type is healthier for humans.
What is complex carbohydrates like whole grain bread because it keep your blood sugar at a most constant level?
500
Dutch Elm disease strikes trees that are homes to birds, insects, and squirrels. The consequences would be . . .
Birds, squirrels, and insects living in those trees would no longer have a safe food source or shelter so they may die or have to compete organisms living in other trees for new homes and food sources?
500
This is how a food chain and a food web differ?
What is a food chain shows only one way the energy follows. A food web shows how all the different organism interact in an ecosystem?