Environmental Science Chapter 4

Question 1

Body parts similar in structure but not function

Accepted Answer

Homologous structures

Question 2

Which is not abiotic?

Accepted Answer

Tree

Question 3

Inherited trait that increases an organism's chance for survival

Accepted Answer

Adaptation

Question 4

When animals that are best adapted to the environment survive and reproduce

Accepted Answer

Natural selection

Question 5

The islands where Darwin did his research

Accepted Answer

Galapagos

Question 6

Why are phytoplankton important?

Accepted Answer

initial source of food in ocean

Question 7

Which is biotic?

Accepted Answer

Monkey

Question 8

Non-living part of an ecosytem

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Abiotic

Question 9

Human breed animals to have certain traits

Accepted Answer

Artificial selection

Question 10

Which is not a Domain?

Accepted Answer

Plantae

Question 11

Which is not a major biome?

Accepted Answer

Park

Question 12

Variation is important because

Accepted Answer

Better chances for survival, Environment changes

Question 13

The study of relationships between biotic and abiotic factors in environments

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Ecology

Question 14

Ability of an organism to tolerate a chemical designed to kill it

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Resistance

Question 15

All the members of the same species in the same place at the same time

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Population

Question 16

An individual living thing

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Organism

Question 17

How do bacteria help the environment?

Accepted Answer

decompose dead organisms

Question 18

What do we mean by habitat?

Accepted Answer

Where an organism lives

Questions 18