vocab
Employs the senses.
What is an Observation
This type of graph is used for categories
What is a bar graph
All living things have this very small unit of life
What are cells
The organisms that get energy from the sun
What are the producers
If a habitat has similar abundance for each species present, the habitat is said to have?
What is evenness
The type of data that uses numbers
What is quantitative data
This type of graph always equals up to a whole.
What is a pie chart
A term used for living
What is biotic
An organism’s position on a food chain
What is a trophic level
The number of different species present in an ecosystem.
What is richness
The set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
What is metabolism
This type of graph usually always deals with time
What is a line graph
All living things can make offspring
What is reproduction
When an arrow is pointing from one organism to another this is showing what?
What is the transfer of energy
This tool is used to measure biodiversity of an ecosystem
What is a quadrant
Refers to a group of organisms of a species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time.
What is a population
The variable that is usually found on the X axis
What is the independent variable
Living things show changes over many generations
What is evolution
The organism at the top of a food web is known as?
What is the apex predator
This symbiotic relationship happens when one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefiting.
What is commensalism
Species at the highest trophic level (top carnivores) influence the species at the next lower level (their prey)
What is top down regulation
What are the eight components of a good graph?
Type
Draw axis.
Label the axes.
Key
Intervals
Title
Plot the points.
All living things change and mature over their life cycle
What is grow and develop
How much energy is transferred from one level to the next?
What is 10%
Thsi is reached in an ecosystem when a population can no longer be supported.
What is carrying capacity