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| Organisms that manufacture organic nutrients for an ecosystem are called what: | Primary producers |
| Photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, and nutrient recycling all describe the role of which single-celled organisms? | Bacteria |
| Organisms with traits well suited to their environment surviv and reproduce at a greater rate than organisms that are less well adapted in the same environment. This is known as what? | Natural selection |
| Pines, spruces, and firs are examples of what plant grouping? | Gymnosperms |
| Precipitation and evaporation are important components of what biogeochemical cycle? | Water cycle |
| Protista is an example of which of the seven major taxons? | Kingdom |
| Of seeds, fruits, flowers, and spores, what structures do both mosses and ferns use to reproduce: | Spores |
| Similar genera are grouped into which of the seven major taxons? | Family |
| Some biologists group eubacteria and archaebacteria together into which kingdom? | Monera |
| Spartina grass is a plant that grows in salt marshes. What adaptation can you assume spartina grass has that enables it to survive in salty water? | Can pump out salt, cells excrete the salt |
| The biome that makes up most of the central part of the U.S. is called what? | Temeperate grassland |
| Which best describes what happens in a food pyramid: | Energy is lost to the environment at each level so less mass can be supported at each higher level. |
| Which level in a pyramid would most likely contain members of the plant kingdom? | Bottom level |
| The primary producers in a grassland ecosystem would most likely be what? | Grasses |
| The relationship between a clown fish and a sea anemone is known as what symbiotic relationship? | Commensalism |
| The relationship between plants and the bees that pollinate them is an example of what symbiotic relationship? | Mutualism |
| In what type of relationship does one organishm benefit and the other organism neither benefits or is harmed? | Commensalism |
| The second part of a scientific name is unique to which taxon? | Species |
| The spread of diseas among animal populations is considered to be what kind of a factor? | Density dependent |
| Trees depend on sunlight for photosynthesis. What is sunlight? | Abiotic factor |
| Two organisms in the same order will also have to be in which other taxons? | Class, phylum, kingdom |
| Under Linnaeus' system of classification, plants and animals are sorted into groups based on what characteristics? | Form and structure |
| Viruses are considered to be non-living. Why is this so? | No cells, not use energy, not make proteins |
| Water lilies do no grow in desert sand. Water availability to these plants is considered to be what kind of a factor? | Density independen |
| What are strings of connected fungal cells calle? | Hyphae |
| What are the most common seedless vascular plants? | Ferns |
| What are vascular plants that reproduce by making seeds, but that do not produce flowers called? | Gymnosperms |
