Ecology
Food & Nutrition
CSI
Evolution
Rocketry
100
A living thing in an ecosystem
What is an organism
100
The amount of energy stored in food is measured in these
What are Calories
100
This molecule carries genetic information and can be used to identify suspects
What is DNA
100
Helpful, harmful, or neutral:
Having dark colored wings in a dark colored forest with predators
Helpful
100
This force pulls rockets back toward Earth.
What is gravity
200
A diagram that shows who eats whom in an ecosystem
What is a food web
200
How many scientific calories (c) are in 1 food Calorie (C)
What is 1000
200
The name of a small feature on a person's fingerprint. Example: Bifurcation
What are Minutiae
200
Individuals with advantageous traits are more likely to do this
Survive AND Reproduce
200
This force pushes the rocket away from the launchpad via Newton's third law
What is thrust
300
An organism that makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer
300
This nutrient is the body's main source of "quick energy."
What are carbohydrates
300
The three main types of fingerprint
Loop, Arch, and whorl
300
Differences among individuals in a population are called this
What is variation
300
This force always acts in the opposite direction of the rocket's motion
What is drag
400
An organism that is not eaten by any other predators in its ecosystem
What is an apex predator
400
This nutrient provides the body with a source of "slow energy"
What is fat
400
If a person DOES NOT have the A or B antigen on their blood cells, they have this kind of blood.
What is type O
400
Over many generations, favorable traits become more common through this process
What is Natural Selection
400
This is the value for the acceleration of gravity on Earth
What is 9.8 m/s2
500
This is a reason that a grey wolf might target a sick deer over a healthy one. (Think about the predator prey game we played)
It costs the wolf less energy to capture a sick deer.
500
The name of the device used by scientists to burn food and calculate the amount of calories it has
What is a bomb calorimeter
500
Offspring from these parent dogs could have these possible genotypes
What are AA and Aa
500
Something that prevents a group of organisms from producing offspring with another group
What is a reproductive barrier
500
The formula to find the height of something when you know the angle above the horizon.
Height=...
Height = distance x TAN(angle)