Q: What distinguishes a true bug from other insects?
What is a Probosics
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Q: What is an ecosystem?
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A: Both biotic and abiotic factors interacting in a given area
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Q: Where can populations be studied?
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A: In the laboratory (mice), in the mini-ecosystem (at school), or in
its natural surroundings (Jane Goodall)
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Q: true or false? The main characteristics of all insects are 3 body parts, 8 legs, and both male
and female needed for reproduction
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A: false
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Q: Why did we observe milkweed bugs for several
weeks?
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A: To obverse population change, a bug’s life cycle and to
create a livable habitat
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Q: What is made during photosynthesis that most living
things need to survive?
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Oxygen
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Q: Which is not used during photosynthesis? Carbon dioxide,
nitrogen, light, and water
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Nitrogen
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Q: Why did the finches of the Galapagos Islands develop
variations in their beak structures?
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To obtain food
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Q: How does photosynthesis help a heterotroph and an autotroph?
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A: For a heterotroph, another organism uses photosynthesis to create the food it eats because it is unable to create its own food
like an autotroph.
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Q: Which of these does not belong and why? Herbivore,
producer, omnivore, and carnivore
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A: Producer is an energy/trophic level and the others tell what an
organism eats
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Q: Phenotype describes _____.
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Physical characteristics
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Q: What type of scientist was Gregor Mendel?
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Biologist
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Q: Is a heterozygous (Aa) gene ever recessive?
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A: no, it will always produce a dominant trait.
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Q: Draw a correct Punnett square for AA and Aa parents? What is
the ratio?
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Varies
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Q: What provides the genetic code for the features of an
organism?
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Genes
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Q: What is the passing of traits from one generation to the next?
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Heredity
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Q: What structures in a cell contain genes?
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Chromosomes
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Q: Over time what would cause a change in the coloration of an
organism?
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Natural Selection
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Q: true or false? The diversity of finches on the Galapagos Islands
is due to selective breeding.
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False, natural selection
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Q: true or false? A variation in a population, like color, can allow
a population to: reproduce successfully, adapt to an
environment, and respond to change.
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A: true, variation allows populations to survive.
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Q: True or false? Phytoplankton is important to the health of
oceans
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True
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Q: A plant is a _______ in the energy pyramid.
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Producer
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Q: What would happen to a shallow body of water after 1000
years?
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It would become a field
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Q: Which of these is a limiting factor? starvation, space
(limited), disease, weather, or all of the above.
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All of the above
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Q: What carries one half of the genetic information from each
parent in reproduction?
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Egg and sperm
Final Jeopardy
Final Jeopardy: Draw a Punnett square that demonstrates whether or not two heterozygous parents can produce an off-spring with a recessive trait. Be sure to explain your answer.