Vocabulary
This allows organisms to grow and move.
What is energy?
It's when two organisms need the same resource.
What is compete?
A sunflower is an example of this class of organism.
What is a producer?
The first stage in a darkling beetle's life cycle.
What is an egg?
Isopods have this many pairs of legs.
What is seven?
The state that is most favorable to growth, development, and reproduction of an organism.
What is optimum?
An example of this is:
bacteria --> grass --> mouse --> fox --> hawk
What is a food chain?
Examples of this class of organism are lions, rabbits, and humans.
What is a consumer?
A darkling beetle has this many stages in its lifecycle?
What is four?
This class of organism is known as the "clean up crew."
What is decomposers?
This is part of the environment. It includes things such as air, dirt, or rocks.
What is a non-living factor?
This includes things such as a toad, grass, cat, tree, or deer.
What is a living factor?
This is used to open seeds, dig for worms, or remove bark to expose a grub.
What is a beak?
This is the "teenager" of the darkling beetle life cycle.
What is pupa?
The term used to describe ways seeds move away from the parent plant.
What is seed dispersal?
A measure of how hot or cold matter is.
What is temperature?
For example:
bacteria eat grass, fruit, and dead mammals / chipmunks eat grass and nuts / rabbits eat grass / hawks eat chipmunks and rabbits
What is a food web?
An organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
This is what mealworms and darkling beetles live in.
What is substrate?
This organism is considered the "grass" of the lake environment.
What is phytoplankton?
The varying conditions of one environmental factor in which an organism can survive.
What is range of tolerance?
The part of a fish that helps it to sense its surroundings.
What is the lateral line?
Like human beings, this is an example of an organism that is also an omnivore.
What are pigs, bears, hedgehogs, opossums, skunks, sloths, squirrels, raccoons, chipmunks, mice, rats, and all hominidae (apes, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans).
These are the three main parts of a mealworm.
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
Does the mass of an object effect its ability to rebound (bounce)?
What is "I will not give you this answer." Instead, measure the mass of the objects we used. Have three people drop the objects from the same height. What did you learn?