Items that are changed or kept constant in an experiment and can be measured.
What is a variable?
100
Dry environment that generally receives less than 25cm of rainfall each year.
What is a Desert?
100
A plants response to light.
What is Phototropism?
200
Grass, shrubs, plants, trees, etc... that use the sun's energy to make their own food.
What is an autotroph (producer)?
200
Secondary Succession
What is the type of Succession that begins where soil is already present?
200
A statement or idea that can be tested by an experiment.
What is a Hypothesis?
200
A cold mostly treeless land biome that encircles the Arctic Ocean. Temperatures are well below freezing for much of the year.
What is the Tundra?
200
Looks like something it is not for survival. (Ex: coral and king snakes)
What is Mimicry?
300
The amount of energy that is transfered at each level.
What is 10%?
300
Glacial Movement is responsible for it.
What is Primary Succession?
300
The variables you keep the same throughout the experiment.
What is a control variable, or constant variable?
300
A Biome divided into many vertical layers. Near the equator, warm temperatures and abundant rainfall. Home to some very fascinating birds.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
300
Process by which organisms change over time, those best suited to their environment survive and pass on traits to the next gerneration. (Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Finches)
What is Natural Selection?
400
The amount of energy the snake would receive in the food web and pyramid for #1 on your review.
What is 0.1% Energy received?
400
Forest Fires and mowing the lawn are examples of its beginning.
What is Secondary Succession?
400
Safety Equipment used to rinse eyes if the chemical gets into them.
What is an Eye Wash Fountain (shower, station)?
400
Prairie Dogs, Prairie Hawks, Bison, and wheat. Mild in summer and cool in the winter. The grass is very fertile and provides a source of food for many grazing animals.
What is the Grasslands?
400
Is the movenemt of weathered earth materials.
What is Erosion?
500
The role of the decomposer.
What breaks down dead material and releases nutrients?
500
A stable community which has reached equilibrium. All of the trees and animals that will occupy the land have grown or moved in.
What is a Climax Community?
500
Maginification of the eyepiece of a Microscope.
What is 10 power magnification?
500
Adaptation: Spiny leaves help prevent water loss from this plant that is in the dessert
What is a cactus?
500
When rivers deposit sediment at the mouth of a river.