1. Habitats
&
Niches
Changes In
Populations
Human Impacts
On Ecosystems
Symbiotic
Relationships
Miscellaneous
100
100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500

2. Any characteristic that helps an organism to survive

3. What is adaptation?

4. An area where an organism lives, grows, and develops

5. What is habitat?

6. A theory developed by Charles Darwin stating that individuals will contain characteristics to survive then pass on to their offspring

7. What is Natural Selection?

8. Describes what an organism does in its habitat

9. What is Niche?

10. Tell me an adaptation that a sea turtle would have

11. What are flippers to help it swim in the sea?

12. If the wolf population were to drop, the moose population would do this

13. What is increase?

14. All the organisms of a given species that live together in the same area

15. What is population?

16. Give me an example of an alien species that we talked about in class

17. What are zebra mussels, Asian long-horned beetle?

18. What are three non-living factors that can change an ecosystem

19. What are volcanoes, tornados, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, etc.?

20. What are three things that an organism will have to do if it wants to survive on earth or adapt to changes

21. What is perish, relocate, or adapt?

22. Tell me three things that humans do that can harm the ecosystem

23. What is air pollution, oil spills, littering solid waste, fertilizers?

24. Is the addition of harmful substances to the environment

25. What is pollution?

26. Tell me three things that humans do to help the environment

27. What is endangered species act, cleaner cars, wildlife refuges, community actions, protecting wetlands, clean technology, or environmental legislation?

28. The earths population has grown from __ billion to ___ billion

29. What is 1 billion to 6 billion?

30. Tell me two things that are lost with the destruction of the rain forest

31. What is medicines, animals, plants, healthy atmosphere?

32. When one organism benefits and the other organism is not affected

33. What is commensalism?

34. Describes a close, long-lasting relationship between two different organisms

35. What is symbiosis?

36. Both organisms benefit

37. What is mutualism?

38. When one organism benefits from living off the body of another organism

39. What is parasitism?

40. Give me an example of a parasite

41. What is hookworm, tapeworm, ticks, mosquitoes etc?

42. Animals that hunt and eat other animals

43. What are predators?

44. Occurs when all members of a species die out

45. What is extinction?

46. When a species is becoming close to endangered

47. What is a threatened species?

48. Animals that are hunted and eaten by predators

49. What are prey?

50. When many different species die out at roughly the same time

51. What is mass extinction?

52. Final Jeopardy
What evidence shows that dinosaurs and other species died in a mass extinction 65 million years ago