Classification
This is the most inclusive, least specific, or highest level of classification.
What is Domain?
Sunflowers are a part of this kingdom
What is Plantae?
This word is short for biological diversity.
What is biodiversity?
This is an event, like a fire, flood or eruption, that changes a community by removing organisms
What is a disturbance?
A king Cobra is an example of this class of vertebrate
What is a reptile?
What is to organize and name organisms.
Bacteria that live in extreme environments are a in what kingdom?
What is Archaebacteria?
This phylum of animals do not have a backbone.
What are Invertebrates?
These are the two types of succession.
What are primary and secondary succession?
A red-eyed tree frog is an example of this class.
What is an amphibian?
This is the two name naming system used to name species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Organisms that don't fit in other kingdoms get placed in this one, it's also called the "Junk drawer Kingdom"
What is Protista
This word means a change in the population that occurs when organisms with favorable variations for a particular environment survive, reproduce and pass on that trait to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
A volcanic eruptions caused this type of succession because it occurs on bare rock after the lava cools.
What is primary succession.
A bald eagle is an example of this class.
What is a bird?
This scientist developed the system of naming organisms.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
If an organism has cell walls made of chitin and is a eukaryotic heterotrophic decomposer they are typically put in this kingdom.
What is Fungi?
This is when people control how domesticated plans and animals live and reproduce and therefore control how they evolve.
What is artificial Selection?
This type of secondary succession occurs when a farmland gets abandoned and the native plants being to grow back.
What is Old-field succession?
A dolphin is an example of this class.
What is a mammal?
These two classification levels make up an organisms scientific name.
What are Genus and Species?
Organisms that are multicellular eukaryotic heterotrophs with no cell walls belong in this kingdom
What is Animalia
This acronym stands for how humans cause premature Extinctions.
What is HIPPCO?
This type of secondary succession occurs when soil and sediment start to fill in a pond and over time it becomes a part of the land biome.
What is Aquatic Succession?
A stingray is a part of this subclass of fish.
What is a chondrichthye?