Living Things
An aid to identify organisms.
What is dichotomous key?
Classification
What is the arrangement of organisms into orderly groups based on similarities?
The flow of energy through a community.
What is a food chain?
Animals whose bodies are designed to maintain a fairly constant body temperature, regardless of the outside temperature are _____.
Warm-blooded
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
Domain
What is largest level of classification?
An animal that hunts and kills their prey to get energy
What is a predator?
I'm the largest mammal on earth. I have little hairs that are hard to see unless you are close up. I live in the water. What am I?
What is a whale?
Rocks, soil, water, and sunlight are examples of...
What are abiotic factors?
The 8 levels of classification.
What is domain,kingdom,phylum,class,order,family,genus,species
The five kingdoms.
What is Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia and Monera?
They are at the top of the energy pyramid or at the end of the food chain. They receive the least amount of energy.
What is a tertiary consumer (top carnivore/predator)?
Since the majority of mammals spend their time on land, they have these organs which allow them to breathe.
What are lungs?
The science of naming and classifying organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The necessary features of living organisms.
What is Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition?
Mold and mushrooms are examples of what kingdom
What is fungi?
These important organisms put materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water.
What are decomposers?
Pouched mammals belong to this order.
What is Marsupialia?
If a beaver builds a dam creating a new pond, what would happen to the environment?
Some existing plants and animals may die and new organisms may make the pond their home.
Is water living or not living? Explain fully (2 valid points needed)
Teacher to say if correct or not.
What are two important things to consider when constructing a dichotomous key?
* include physical characteristics only (that cannot be changed)
* two options only at each level of classification
What can change a food web? How?
The weather can affect a food web by damaging and destroying plants. People can affect a food web by spraying pesticides, dumping waste into oceans and rivers, overfishing, and deforestation.
A platypus belongs to this order
What is Monotremata?
The four types of consumers... (Their names and how they are distinguished)
What is
o herbivores- eat plants only
o carnivores- eat animals only
o omnivores- eat both plants and animals
o scavengers- eat things found already dead