Bees
The most common species of bee in the Pacific Northwest.
What are Western Honey Bees?
The term Bioengineering is a portmanteau of these two fields of study.
When represented on a topographic map, this is how a steep slope is represented.
What are lines close together?
This species of fish is known to end it s reproduction cycle by dying; thus adding food for the surrounding waters.
What is a Salmon?
The term Ecoengineering is a portmanteau of these two fields of study.
What are Ecology and Engineering?
Coined by Woody Flowers, this core value is "a way of doing things that encourages high-quality work, emphasizes the value of others, and respects individuals and the community."
What is Gracious Professionalism?
The role bees are best known for in the ecosystem.
What is a Pollinator?
Because bioengineering often works with domesticated organisms, it often intersects with this other kind of engineering.
What is Agricultural Engineering?
Each contour line on a topographic map represents this geographic property.
What is linear elevation?
When a symbiotic relationship benefits both organisms, it can be better described with this term.
What is Mutualism?
This specialization is an applied science seeking to develop solutions to human problems while minimizing environmental impact.
What is Ecotechnology?
Each robot is required to start within this space limitation.
What is an 18 inch cube?
While 10 percent of bees are solitary, 90 percent live this kind of social structure.
What is colonial?
The systematic growth of cells and tissues in bioreactors is described as this specialization.
What is Tissue Engineering?
What is a hole?
This kind of predator helps an ecosystem remain balanced by regulating otherwise dominant animals.
What is a Keystone Predator?
Ecoengineering intersects with these two engineering disciplines.
What are Environmental and Civil engineering?
While it would be nice to be unlimited, this is how many motors and how many servos a robot may have.
What are 8 motors and 8 servos (new this year)?
Out of the roughly 20,000 bee species worldwide, this many are honey producing species.
What is 7?
This British scientist coined the term Bioengineering in 1954.
Who is Heinz Wolff?
Instead of using contour lines, a topographic map can show elevation in this manner.
What is color gradient?
Every lichen is a relationship between these two types of organisms.
What are Algae and Fungus?
Energy flow can be visualized similar to circuit diagrams using this modeling language.
What is:
This year's competition manual focuses on this, rather than going over every eventuality.
What is "the Spirit of the Rule."
Widely considered the father of modern beekeeping, he designed the efficient beehive design commonly used today.
Who is Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth?
This niche subdiscipline combines tissue growth and technological parts.
What is biohybrid robotics?
This cartographer invented the topographic map.
Who is Charles Hutton?
This principal in biology states that two animals cannot co-exist if they have matching needs, as one will always outcompete the other.
What is the "Competitive Exclusion Principle"?
This ecologist coined the term Ecological Engineering.
Who is Howard Thomas Odum?
Although Inspire 1st Place gives 60, all other 1st place awards give this many Advancement Points.
What is 12 Advancement Points?