FINAL QUESTION
The single most important trait of a scientist.
What is a heart beat?
What is 'verbosity'?
This term, which comes from the Greek word for nourishment, refers to anything relating to feeding or nutrition.
What is 'trophic.'
DAILY DOUBLE
A way to find predictable patterns in nature.
What is extrapolating observations to new but similar situations OR identifying the mechanism of the pattern?
What is heritable?
This section of a research paper is where the author can have a bit of style as they compare their results to those of other studies, and discuss different biological explanations for what they found and what they didn't.
What is the discussion section?
These representations of feeding relationships in a community are not woven by spiders.
What are food webs?
This type of curve illustrates the proportional survival of a population over time.
What is a survival curve?
In his study on urban birds, guest lecturer Mike Vermuelen found the lowest bird diversity in this part of Portland.
What is the pearl district? (Also accepted: downtown)
In oral presentations of your work, each slide should have just one what?
What is a main idea?
The effect of including parasites in food webs was reduced when not considering this blood feeding insect as a parasite.
What are mosquitoes?
It is important that a research question be [this], in order to design an experiment around it.
What is actionable?
Our understanding of nature is limited by this.
What is our perception?
In this type of scientific paper, published studies and other scholarly articles on a topic are synthesized, and knowledge gaps are identified.
What is a literature review?
Name two processes other than foodwebs that connect living things in a given environment.
What are waste production, environmental modification, chemical cycling, resource, energy, and water production and use.
The main limitation of observational experiments.
What is their ability to establish causality?
DAILY DOUBLE!!! Fill in the blank:
An academic field only advances if you [ ] what you've found.
What is communicate?