Concepts Biodiversity and Ecology

Which of the following is written correctly?

What is the maximum number of individuals that a habitat can support?

The vertebrates are found in what phylum?

What are structures that are fully functional in on group, but reduced/absent in another?

What are traits that make organisms better suited to living & reproducing in its environment?

_____ is the jellyfish stage in a  cnidarian.

How does material travel through the body of a moss?

What is the name given to the upper surface of the ocean where the plankton congregates?

Kingdoms Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, and Protista make up what domain?

_____ means that they have only half a set of chromosomes.

What is the selective breeding of organisms w/desired traits so offspring have the same traits?

What is the pathway the pollen takes to reach the egg?

_____ and _____ are two barriers that prevent organisms from being able to breed successfully.

Which biome receives the least aount of rainfall of all the terrestrial biomes?

What is the difference between allopatric and sympatric speciation?

What do we call a community characterized by a specific mix of climate, plants, and animals?

What is the purpose of the stomates/stomata?

Where is pollen produced in the flower?

What organisms are sessile and only at the cellular level of organization?

Which organism is a protist?

What is the development of a large number of new species from a common ancestor?

What is fertilization in the mosses dependent upon?

What are the two parts of a scientific name?

Where would an herbivore such as a giraffe appear in the food chain?

What are humans biologically adapted to be in the food chain?

What kingdom contains the molds and the mushrooms?

To which phylum do humans belong?

What group contains the stinging cells of the nematocysts?

_________ can make their own food.

What theory says that no two organisms can occupy the same job/niche at the same time?

What vascular tissue transports water and minerals UP through a plant stem?

What is speciation?

What biome contains the permafrost?

Where in the food web/chain would you expect to find the smallest number of individuals?

_____ make the ferns better adapted to life of land than the mosses.

What is the carpel/pistil used for in flowers?

____ and _____ are the two types of vascular tissue in a plant.

Which of the following is NOT a use for an adaptation?

What biome is dominant in Eastern Tennessee?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an arthropod?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Domain Archaea?

Energy flow in an ecosystem begins with _____.

What is the name given to the junction of freshwater and saltwater?

What is the order of classification from the most specific to the most general?

In which symbiosis is one organism benefitted and the other harmed?

What classification system utilizes categories such as "phylum" or "genus"?

What is an ectotherm?

Which is an autotrophic eukaryote?

During which type of symbiotic relationship do both species benefit?

Which of the following is not a Domain?

_____ animals have NO particualy symmetry.

Which of the following is NOT a shape of bacteria?

What do we call a group of individuals that occupy a certain place at the same time?

What was the traditional Kingdom Bacteria divided into?

Which of the following is NOT true about natural selection?

____ are the pouched mammals.