Ecology
Soil, Temperature and water
What are examples of abiotic factors.
Protection of resources, soil formation and protection, nutrient and storage recycling.
What is provided by healthy biodiversity.
A group of living species that can exchange genes.
What is a species.
A multicellular eukaryotic organisms with cell walls made of cellulose.
What is a plant
The first step in the scientific method.
What is observation.
What is a habitat
The loss of this type of species would have the greatest effect on the ecosystem.
What is a producer.
Once a niche is left vacant, other organisms can fill that position through what process.
What is evolution.
Plant cells also have ___________.
What is chloroplasts.
No matter what you observe, you need to find out what is already known about your questions. This process is called.
What is research.
The average amount of sunlight, range of annual temperatures, average yearly rainfall.
What are factors that can be used to describe a habitat.
Something that two species may not fill the same of.
What is a Niche.
All plants make food by this.
Photosynthesis.
A proposed explanation that tries to explain an observation
What is a hypothesis
A physical place where a species lives.
What is a habitat.
This is a measurement of the amount of variation of the species in a given area.
What is biodiversity
Sometimes new species _______ native species, and the native species may go extinct.
What is out-compete
Most plants support themselves above the ground with _______ ________ in order to get light, carbon dioxide, and oxygen.
Stiff Stems
The two factors that interact to create a habitat.
What is abiotic and biotic.
A role a species plays in the ecosystem.
What is a niche.
The relationship in which members of one species (the predator) consume members of another species (the prey).
Predation
Plants supply food to nearly all__________organisms, including humans. We eat either plants or other organisms that eat plants.
What is terrestrial
To study new problems, scientists use the scientific method.
What is making observations, forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, and drawing conclusions.