Insignificant Figures
The best way to express 5,874,004 in scientific notation using three sig figs
What is 5.87 x 106 ?
This original tree hugger was the most contemporary naturalist, warning us of the potential dangers of using pesticides to food chains
Who is Rachel Carson?
Synonyms for this variable include predictor, manipulated, explanatory, and dependent
What is an independent variable?
Biomes are defined by temperature, altitude, precipitation and most importantly, this
What is vegetation?
In this specific biome, the top carnivores are owls and hawks
What is a deciduous forest?
The number of significant figures in 100.25
What is 5?
This Golden Age of Conservation gent once declined to shoot a small bear
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Theories that are widely accepted are associated with this type of science
What is consensus science?
The rainiest biome out of the following choices:
Taiga, tundra, grassland, deciduous forest, savannah
What is deciduous forest?
A researcher in this specific biome might notice there is little wind due to dense trees and there is much biodiversity, but the soil is poor quality for farming
What is the rainforest?
2.54 cm/inch x 5.0 inches , using the correct significant figures
What is 13 cm?
This author of the Sand County Almanac worked for the Forest Service when he wasn't founding game management
Who is Aldo Leopold?
The opposite of an experimental hypothesis
What is a null hypothesis?
The biome that can be found in a middle latitude climate out of the following:
Boreal forests, tundra, taiga, polar regions, prairie
What is prairie?
A scientist classifying a forest biome would find this factor even more useful than soil pH, elevation, and dominant tree species
What is the amount of rainfall per yea?
2.54 + 2.005 using the correct significant figures
What is 2.55?
This revolutionary guy now has a society named after him after he spent devoted his life to documenting all types of American birds and paintings that depicted the birds in their natural habitat
Who is John Audobon?
Central Tendencies of a data set include all of the following except:
Mean, median, mode, arithmetic average, linear regression
What is linear regression?
The transition from beach dunes to a maritime forest would be an example of this
What is an ecotone?
Forests are carbon sinks, meaning they remove this from the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
An acceptable measurement for accuracy from a graduated cylinder calibrated to tenths of milliliters
What is anything.1 decimal place?
Who is John Muir?
In the experimental design with the fire extinguishers, the size of the fire, distance from the fire, and amount sprayed would be examples of these
What are controlled variables?
Rainfall in a biome is often associated with its this, the total amount of glucose produced in an area vs. how much CO2 the plants release during cellular respiration
What is net primary productivity?
The stratification of the rainforest, from top to bottom, would be canopy, this layer, shrub later, then forest floor
What is understory?