Concepts Biodiversity and Ecology

Which of the following is NOT a shape of bacteria?

Which organism is a protist?

What is the difference between allopatric and sympatric speciation?

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

What biome contains the permafrost?

Which of the following is NOT true about natural selection?

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

_____ animals have NO particualy symmetry.

Which is an autotrophic eukaryote?

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

____ are the pouched mammals.

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

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

Where is pollen produced in the flower?

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

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

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

What is the carpel/pistil used for in flowers?

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

Which of the following is written correctly?

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

During which type of symbiotic relationship do both species benefit?

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

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

What was the traditional Kingdom Bacteria divided into?

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

What is speciation?

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

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

What is an ectotherm?

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is not a Domain?

Energy flow in an ecosystem begins with _____.

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

How does material travel through the body of a moss?

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

What kingdom contains the molds and the mushrooms?

What are the two parts of a scientific name?

_________ can make their own food.

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

What is the purpose of the stomates/stomata?

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

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

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

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

The vertebrates are found in what phylum?

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

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

What is fertilization in the mosses dependent upon?

What group contains the stinging cells of the nematocysts?

To which phylum do humans belong?

_____ is the jellyfish stage in a  cnidarian.

What biome is dominant in Eastern Tennessee?