In a Relationship
The science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their interactions with the environment.
What is ecology?
The science of classifying living organisms into different categories
What is taxonomy?
Includes all the individuals of the same species that live in a given territory.
What is a population?
Can make living matter from non-living matter through the process of photosynthesis. Plants are in this category.
What are producers?
A slow process that leads to modifications in living organisms.
What is evolution?
They are at risk because of disruptions to their environment.
What are vulnerable species?
A group of living organisms that share common criteria.
What is a species?
The correct order of the classification system we use.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
She found that chimpanzees used tools to catch termites. Showed that it is not just humans that can use tools.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This process:
H2O + CO2 + energy → C6H12O6 + O2
What is photosynthesis?
Guides evolution, also called survival of the fittest. Means that individuals that have characteristics which give them an advantage are more likely to survive.
What is natural selection?
These species are likely to disappear>
What an endangered species?
The first person to use the word “species” in a scientific sense
Who was John Ray?
The five kingdoms.
What are animals, plants, fungi, moneran (bacteria) and protists?
A specific place where a species is normally found.
What is a habitat?
Living organisms that consume other living things.
What are consumers?
Can be used to trace the evolution of a species.
What are fossils?
A tool that helps identify the group that a species belongs to.
What is a taxonomic key?
It is used to designate a species. Uses two latin words, written in italics
What is binomial nomenclature?
They are microscopic, prokaryotic (no cell nucleus) and unicellular
What are monerans or bacteria?
An organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area.
What is an invasive species?
Feed on plants
What are herbivores?
A physical characteristic that improves a species’ chance of survival in its environment.
What is a physical adaptation?
A behaviour that improves a species’ chance of survival.
What is a behavioural adaptation?
A group of closely related species, like the dog (Canis lupus familiaris) and the wolf (Canis lupus). The first word in their nomenclature indicates this.
What is the genus?
They are unicellular, eukaryotic organisms (they have a membrane-enclosed nucleus) and usually require a damp environment.
What are protists?
Describes the role that a species plays in its environment.
What is an ecological niche?
Feed on animals.
What are carnivores?
Famous for his work on natural selection. Wrote the book, On the Origin of Species.
Who is Charles Darwin?
An adaptation to gravity. There roots grow downwards, while their stalks grow upward.
What is geotropism?
He developed the system of binomial nomenclature.
Who was Carl Linnaeus
The cells do not contain chlorophyll, feed by decomposing living or non-living things.
What are fungi?
All the non-living elements in an environment: amount of light, temperature, precipitation, wind etc
What are abiotic factors?
Feed on plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
One species imitates another; often to protect themselves from predators.
What is mimicry?
An adaptation that allows plants to grow toward a light source.
What is phototropism?
Three criteria allow us to determine whether two living organisms are of the same species.
What are: look similar, can reproduce together, and have fertile offspring?
Multicellular, the cells contain chlorophyll which allows them to transfer energy from the Sun into food.
What are plants?
The living factors in an environment: plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, protists.
What are biotic factors?
Feed on dead organisms or on waste products of other organisms
What are decomposers?
Makes an animal almost invisible in it environment
What is camouflage?
Phototropism important for plants to allow this process to be more efficient.
What is photosynthesis?