Adaptations & Survival
A trait or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
The process in which organisms with helpful inherited traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
An animal without a backbone belongs to this group.
What are invertebrates?
All the members of one species living in the same area.
What is a population?
Bacteria traditionally classified as a kingdom separate from Archaebacteria.
What are eubacteria?
The type of adaptation shown by a bird having a beak suited to its food.
What is a structural adaptation?
These birds from the Galápagos Islands are a well-known example of natural selection.
What are Darwin’s finches / the Galápagos finches?
An animal with a backbone belongs to this group.
What are vertebrates?
All the populations of different species living and interacting in an area.
What is a community?
Plants that produce flowers and enclose their seeds in fruit.
What are angiosperms?
The type of adaptation shown by a bird migrating during winter.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
The long-term change in inherited traits of populations over generations.
What is evolution?
This kingdom includes organisms such as mushrooms and molds that absorb nutrients.
What is Fungi?
Living parts of an ecosystem, such as plants, animals, and bacteria.
What are biotic factors?
Plants that produce seeds not enclosed in fruit, such as many conifers.
What are gymnosperms?
Name one habitat component that an animal needs to survive.
What are food, water, shelter, or space?
The process in which humans choose which organisms reproduce for desired traits.
What is artificial selection?
Name the six kingdoms listed in many school classification systems.
What are Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia?
The pattern of where individuals in a population live within an area.
What is distribution?
A trait that allows some pests to survive a pesticide that once killed them.
What is pesticide resistance?
Some birds have long, thin beaks, while others have short, thick beaks. These differences help the birds survive. Why?
What are adaptations that help birds obtain different types of food?
Farmers have bred wild plants over many generations to produce crops with larger fruits and more seeds. What is this process called?
What is artificial selection?
These mostly single-celled organisms can live in many environments; examples include amoebas and some algae.
What are protists?
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as sunlight, water, and temperature.
What are abiotic factors?
Name one way an angiosperm seed can be spread.
What are wind, water, animals, or gravity?