We receive more solar energy than is available for consumption. Consider this scenario: A garden has beautiful flowers and a beehive filled with honeycomb. Every day, the honeybees collect nectar from these flowers to produce honey. Do you think that the energy trapped by the flowering plants is completely transferred to the honeybees and from the honeybees to the honey? Relate this to the second law of thermodynamics.

Regarding most of the narrator’s story, which word best describes the tone?

Which label correctly identifies what x represents in the concept map?

Which of the following factors would not contribute to allopatric speciation? a) a population becomes geographically isolated from the parent population.b) the separated population is small, and genetic drift occurs.c) the isolated population is exposed to different selection pressures than the ancestral population.d) different mutations begin to distinguish the gene pools of the separated populations.e) gene flow between the two populations is extensive.