Jeopardy Terrestrial Biomes Q 100 Aquatic Biomes Vocabulary

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$100 Question from Terrestrial Biomes Why is hibernation or winter sleep an adaptation to the temperate deciduous forest?

$100 Answer from Terrestrial Biomes Animals hibernate or winter sleep as an adaptation to avoid the unfavorable conditions. These conditions are reflected in the trees in this biome by loss of leaves such as those during the fall when there are not enough nutrients in a temperate deciduous forest to support the p[lant of the animal life.

$200 Question from Terrestrial Biomes How are big erect ears an adaptation to a desert biome?

$200 Answer from Terrestrial Biomes 2 fold adaptation for hearing and heat loss. Deserts are large, often flat, and dry areas. Large ears are extensions of for veins to go into where air can access the vein to cool it in the thin piece of tissue from both sides. For ear hearing because the desert is such a flat place many animals are adapted to be super well camouflaged, so if you cant see them coming, at least you can hear them with giant ears!

$300 Question from Terrestrial Biomes Describe tooth adaptations to grassland habitats

$300 Answer from Terrestrial Biomes Because grass is the primary food source in a grassland, and grass has the defense mechanism of containing silica (“glass”) that erodes teeth, animals that are adapted for this habitat have either ever growing teeth so they never ware away – like rabbits and man rodents Or The have teeth that have enamel wiggles through there teeth so they keep a rough grinding surface as the enamel erodes away because the dentin between the enamel erodes faster than the super hard enamel.

$400 Question from Terrestrial Biomes Name 3 adaptations to the Tundra and why they help animals be successful in that environment

$400 Answer from Terrestrial Biomes 1 &2 ) Camoflague & Absorb heat – polar bears are adapted to have clear hairs in their coat so that the hair can absorb light (heat) into their black skin and reflect the white color of the snow, thus still blend into the cold/snowy atmosphere 3) Avoid the cold – animals migrate away from this biome to escape the severe cold and desert like dryness or burrow/make dens in winter to avoid the cold

$100 Question from Aquatic Biomes Why are 2 adaptations to a pelagic biome?

$100 Answer from Aquatic Biomes As the pelagic environment is open ocean, the animals and food in it are few and far between. The animals in it have adaptations to finding a mate. Male turtles have a dent in the bottom of there shell to help them hold on to the females and many animals are adapted to school with others of there species so that mates are available.

$200 Question from Aquatic Biomes 2 Adaptations to Abyssopelagic zone?

$200 Answer from Aquatic Biomes As this environment is continually dark and the species in it are spread out, many species have evolved ways to attract mates and food to them. the angler fish is a great example as it does both. Chromatophores, or color changing/glowing cells to attract food to the females. And Males have adapted excellent smelling abilities to follow the females pheromone trail to her and then bite and HOLD ON so that they cant lose there mate

$300 Question from Aquatic Biomes What is an adaptation to the low O 2 in a lentic environment?

$300 Answer from Aquatic Biomes Operculum, or gill covers, fan water continually over there gills to increase O 2 uptake in the low O 2 environment.

$400 Question from Aquatic Biomes What are adaptations to a benthic environment?

$400 Answer from Aquatic Biomes As the benthic environment is on the sea floor, the organisms there have a body plan that reflect it. 1) Flat bottoms for sitting on the sea floor 2) Rounded/circular body plans that increase surface area for organisms that filter feed

$200 Question from Vocabulary Counter Shading • What is it? • What are the adaptive advantages (why have it? ) • Give an example of who has it

$200 Answer from Vocabulary Counter Shading • What is it? • Dark on top, Light on the bottom • What are the adaptive advantages (why have it? ) • Used for CAMOFLAGUE in the Ocean • Give an example of who has it

$300 Question from Vocabulary • What is the Fusiform Shape • Why have it • Where do you expect to find it?

$300 Answer from Vocabulary • What is the Fusiform Shape • Why have it: • To reduce drag in water so they can swim more efficiently • Where do you expect to find it? • In an aquatic environment

$400 Question from Vocabulary Define Upwelling & Why is it so important off the coast of CA?

$400 Answer from Vocabulary Upwelling is when cold waters from deep are forced up to the surface CA Coast: these cool deep waters carry lots of nutrients to the top where they are more accessible to many top dwelling species, making the coast of CA an ubundant feeding ground! (lots of biodiversity attracted to CA coast)

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$100 Question from Animal Distribution What is speciation

$100 Answer from Animal Distribution • When a once continuous population no longer can interbreed and are now considered separate species

$200 Question from Animal Distribution What are the primary causes of speciation

$200 Answer from Animal Distribution Species no longer interbreeding • Allopatric • Sympatric

$300 Question from Animal Distribution Describe and Give 3 reasons for Vicariance

$300 Answer from Animal Distribution Vicariance: a Disjunct population due to the land moving or habitat changing Reasons for Vicariance: 1) The land moved and separated a once continuous population. • 2) Ex: continental drift The environment changed and caused the separation 3) Middle territory is not suitable so they stop going there

$400 Question from Animal Distribution Compare and contrast allopatric from sympatric speciation

$400 Answer from Animal Distribution Allopatric speciation: Sympatric speciation: • When a species splits into • When species diverge 2+ because the populations while inhabiting the same are geographically isolated. place

$500 Question from Animal Distribution What evidence is there for the existence of Pangaea? (4)

$500 Answer from Animal Distribution 1) Fits like a puzzle 2) Fossils are the same on different continents 3) Living animals in widely separated lands are similar. • Ex: India and Madagascar have similar mammals, which are quite different from those in Africa, even though it is now near to Madagascar. 4) Geological similarities between eastern South America and western Africa.

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Final Jeopardy This author wrote, “If one man kills another, it murder, but if a hundred thousand men kill another hundred thousand, it is considered an act of glory!? ”

Final Jeopardy Answer Who is Tolstoy? (The book is Kingdom of God)