Concepts Biodiversity and Ecology

What are the two parts of a scientific name?

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

What biome is dominant in Eastern Tennessee?

During which type of symbiotic relationship do both species benefit?

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

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

Which of the following is written correctly?

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

Where is pollen produced in the flower?

Energy flow in an ecosystem begins with _____.

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

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

_____ is the jellyfish stage in a  cnidarian.

How does material travel through the body of a moss?

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

What is fertilization in the mosses dependent upon?

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

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

What is speciation?

_____ animals have NO particualy symmetry.

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

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

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

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

_________ can make their own food.

What kingdom contains the molds and the mushrooms?

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

Which organism is a protist?

Which of the following is NOT a shape of bacteria?

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

What group contains the stinging cells of the nematocysts?

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

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

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

The vertebrates are found in what phylum?

What is the carpel/pistil used for in flowers?

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

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

What is the purpose of the stomates/stomata?

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

What is the difference between allopatric and sympatric speciation?

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

What is an ectotherm?

Which is an autotrophic eukaryote?

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

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

What was the traditional Kingdom Bacteria divided into?

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

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

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

____ are the pouched mammals.

Which of the following is NOT true about natural selection?

To which phylum do humans belong?

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

What biome contains the permafrost?

Which of the following is not a Domain?