Your mate
(a.k.a. biotic interactions)
(a.k.a. biotic interactions)
What term describes an ecological relationship between organisms of different species?
What is symbiosis?
What is the largest known marsupial to have ever lived?
What is the Diprotodon?
Which of the following geological periods is known for vast swamp forrests?
Carboniferous, Jurassic, or Triassic
What is Carboniferous?
An element's atomic mass number represents the quantity of what subatomic particle(s)?
What are protons and neutrons?
True or false?
Bananas are naturally radioactive
Bananas contain K-40
Approximately how much energy is lost as heat from each trophic level?
What is 90%?
True or false:
Megatheria were a species of giant sloth believed to be larger than a modern African Elephant.
What is... TRUE?
Megatheria existed during the Late Pleistocene Epoch through North and South America and was thought to have a body mass of 3-5 tonnes and a body length of 6m.
Using rock layers to determine the ages of rocks and fossils is known as what?
What is relative dating OR stratigraphy?
Which type of radiation can cause genetic mutations?
What is gamma radiation?
Classify the symbiotic relationship of an emperor shrimp hitching a ride on the back of a sea cucumber
What is commensalism?
What is the largest known current or extant shark species?
What is Megalodon?
Fossils of organisms that were abundant, wide spread, and characteristic of a particular span of geological time are known as what?
Isotopes decay due to what type of instability?
What is nuclear?
Is photosynthesis an endothermic or exothermic chemical reaction?
What is endothermic?
Photosynthesis absorbs energy from sunlight and stores it in the chemical bonds of glucose.
Resource availability, mating opportunity, population density, and niche overlap, are drivers of what type of biotic interaction?
What is competition?
Ancient insects, megafauna dung, or tree roots?
What is megafauna dung?
During what era did Megafauna live?
What is the Cenozoic Era?
A 160mg sample of a radioactive isotope decays to 10mg in 32 days. What is the half-life of this element?
What is 8 days?
Name the two letters not found on the official IUPAC periodic table
What are J and Q?
A detritivore is otherwise known as what?
What is a decomposer?
Name the megafauna that has been described as resembling a giant monitor lizard up to 7 metres long
What is Varanus OR Megalania?
What ion present in groundwater is commonly absorbed by buried bones and used to date fossils?
What is fluoride?
What is Nitrogen-14?
What is the Pleistocene?