Big Idea 4.18 Population

 

 

 

  This is a population of Flamingos, or a group of organisms of the same species that live and travel together.

Big Idea 4.16 Food Chain

The grass is eaten by the duck, the duck is eaten by the Red Panda, and the Red Panda is eaten by a Snow Leopard, making the food chain.

Big Idea 4.14 Parasitism

The mistletoe in this picture is a parasite to the host tree by how it is living off of it while not giving the tree anything in return.

Big Idea 4.11 K-strategist

The lion in this picture is a K-Strategist because it reproduces one offspring at a time with high quality.

Big Idea 4.10 Keystone Species

The tiger in this picture is a keystone species because it is the tertiary carnivore in a food chain and keeps control over the structure of the food chain and ecosystem it is apart of.

Big Idea 4.9 Introduced Species

This Eucalyptus tree is an introduced species because it is not native to the lands it currently lives in.  

Big Idea 4.4 Climax Community

The landscape shown here represents a climax community by how it is the end result of evolution and has remained largely unchanged for several years.

Big Idea 3.19 Seed Dispersal Method

The weeds in between the rocks got there by the seeds of their parent plants being moved around most likely by the wind, if not by animals.  Therefore, these weeds represent seed dispersal method by wind and animals.

Big Idea 3.17 Pollinator

The bee in this picture is a pollinator of this angiosperm, or a creature moving male pollen to female stigmata.  

Big Idea 3.16 Phenotype

The goats in this picture represent a phenotype of goat, or an expression of the genes within the nuclei of the cells that make up these goats.

Big Idea 3.14 Mitosis

The Sumatran Orangutans in this picture contain cells that perform mitosis, which is the process of cells creating new cells by duplicating all their organelles and chromosomes, which is how these creatures have grown to the size they are today.

Big Idea 3.9 Behavior

The American White Pelicans in this picture are demonstrating the behavior of sleep, as behavior is any action an organism does.

Big Idea 3.8 Flock, Herd, or Schooling

This herd of horses represents a herd by being a herd, or a collection of organisms of the same species.

Big Idea 3.6 Haploid

The giraffe in this picture contains haploid cells, or n cells that have only one of the two sets of chromosomes in it (also known as gametes). Therefore, the giraffe can represent haploid cells.

Big Idea 3.5 Gamete

The owl in this picture contains gametes within it, which are cells with one copy of the two chromosomes the organism contains in the nuclei of its diploid cells (either in the form of eggs or sperm).

Big Idea 3.3 Eukaryote

The White-faced Saki in this picture is a eukaryote because it contains eukaryotic cells, or cells that contain a nucleus and organelles of various kinds.

Big Idea 3.1 Diploid

This Mallard duck is diploid because it contains cells that are 2n, or ones that have both chromosomes in their nucleus'.

Big Idea 2.38 Xylem

The bamboo in this picture is a vascular plant that contains xylem, which is tissue used to transport water and solutes through the plant's body.  Therefore, there is xylem inside this plant.

Big Idea 2.29 Long-Day Plant

This Camelia Japonica is an angiosperm, which relies on the length of the night to know when to flower, making it a long-day plant.

Big Idea 2.28 Lactic Acid

This horse creates a lot of  lactic acid when it performs glycolysis while running fast, so it is making and contains lactic acid.

Big Idea 2.26 Kinesis

The Fiji Banded Iguana in this picture does not have any intensity of stimulus that would cause it to move more acting on it, causing it to be at rest instead of responding to such a stimulus.  The zoo could easily supply such a stimulus, causing the iguana to wake up and move around, a change in activity level, or kinesis.

Big Idea 2.20 Homeostasis

The Giant Anteater in the picture represents homeostasis by how he modifies and maintains his internal body temperature.  Therefore he is stable, or at homeostasis.

Big Idea 2.18 Glycolysis

The Black & White Ruffed Lemur performs glycolysis internally.  This is crucial to the Lemur's survival, as the Lemur cannot break down glucose without it.

Big Idea 2.17 Glycogen

The Sitatunga in this picture has glycogen inside it because cells require it for survival.  Glucose is stored  in the form of glycogen in the cells.

Big Idea 2.15 Enzyme

The chimpanzees in this picture have and use enzymes in many of their biological functions (digestion for example), so they can represent enzymes.

Big Idea 2.13 Endothermy

My father is an example of endothermy by the way he can maintain his own body temperature and does not rely on the temperature of his surroundings to maintain this.

Big Idea 2.12 Ectothermy

Albert, a Russian tortoise, represents ectothermy by how he relies on the temperature of his surroundings to maintain his own body temperature, which is what ectothermy is.

Big Idea 2.10 Cohesion of Water

The water in the lake represents cohesion, which is the attraction of water molecules to one another, by how the water is evidently connected through hydrogen bonds by the ripples of the water which create waves.  While it is not a solid, the water molecules do not act independently but in correspondence to one another as the waves show, demonstrating water's cohesiveness.

Big Idea 2.9 Chitin

The structure of this bug in the picture is an exoskeleton made up of chitin, so the bug contains chitin within it.

Big Idea 2.8 Cellulose

The cells that make up the hay in this picture have cell walls made of cellulose, so it represents cellulose by what it is made of.

Big Idea 2.7 Catabolic

The Eastern Bongo in this picture performs catabolic reactions to break down food, so it indirectly can represent catabolic reactions.

Big Idea 2.6 Carbohydrate

The rice in this picture represent carbohydrates as that is what they are made of.