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Ecosystem Potpourri
Behavioral Adaptation
The Human Factor
Structural Adaptation
Things Change
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They are a mollusk with no natural predators that
traveled to the US on The hulls of ships.
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What is the zebra mussel?
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This organism affected the environment
by decreased the amount of sunlight reaching many
fresh water aquatic plants.
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What was an aquatic plant introduced to the US
about 100 years ago that produces a thick mat
on the water surface?
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Changes in an organisms genes that can be passed
on from parent to offspring
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What is a mutation?
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria survived and passed
genes to their offspring.
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What is how some bacteria became resistant to
antibiotics?
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A sudden drought will reduce plant life, the
available shelter, and water amount. Organisms
must compete for those limited resources. The
organisms that cant adapt must move to
a favorable area or die out.
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What is how a drought affects the habitat and
how a species can survive this sudden change?
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Finches on the Galapagos Islands have beaks of
different shapes so they can gather food on the
island where they live.
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What is a structural adaptation?
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A lions mane makes the male lion look bigger and
it protects his neck area.
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What is a structural change that helps the lion
survive?
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-suction cups for climbing -powerful legs for
jumping -camouflage for hiding
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What structural adaptations help a frog avoid
predators?
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The claws on the following animals
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What is a structural adaptation that allows the
prairie dog to make a shelter in a grassland
biome?
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Why the dog on the left has more spots than the
dog on the right
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What is to have different combinations of DNA
from the parent dogs?
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The kind of behavioral adaptation (nest building)
related to the following picture.
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What is an instinctive behavior of some birds?
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A group of ants working together
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What is a behavioral adaptation in ants?
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A adaptation that allows honey bees to
communicate the location of nectar flowers.
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What is the honey bee nectar dance?
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A learned behavior of lions
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What is learning how to hunt?
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The behavior adaptation of a hawk living in a
city
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What is learning how to nest on tall
buildings, and hunting pigeons in the city?
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The bald eagle became an endangered species
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What is from the use of DDT pesticide?
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This is one way to reduce the insect population.
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What is spraying pesticides on plants?
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The acid rain damaged pond ecosystem slowly
recovers after humans take action.
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What is putting lime into a lake to
counteract the effect of acid rain?
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A mammal brought to this country many years ago
that now damages ecosystems
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What is the feral hog (pig)?
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People fill in a wetland ecosystem
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What is a cause for changes in plant and animal
species in an area where organisms are unable to
survive outside of a wetland ecosystem?
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Cause helpful change because their digested
materials enrich the soil
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What is how the earthworm affects the environment?
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A snowshoe hare turns white in winter
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What is an example of how the environment affects
the appearance of an organism?
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The faction of genes a puppy gets from its mother
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What is ½ ?
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Extinct
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What do you call an organism that no longer has
any members of its kind alive?
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The result of a kudzu plant being introduced into
a grassland
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What is when grasses are crowded out by the kudzu
as it cuts off sunlight, and steals minerals and
water from the soil?
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Final Jeopardy
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Explain each of the following words as it
relates to water. Evaporation Condensation Precipi
tation Sublimation
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