Scientific Inquiry
This is the first step of the scientific method, where you identify what you want to learn
What is asking a question?
uses numbers to describe what is observed
What is qualitative data
The demand for resources such as food, shelter, in a community.
What is competition?
The number of offspring produced over a given time.
What is birthrate?
All the different populations that live together in one area form this.
What is a community?
A statement that can be tested by experiment and is often written as an ‘If…then…’ statement.
What is a hypothesis?
After you perform your experiment, you do this step to see what your data means
What is analyzing results
The number of individuals living in a certain area is called this.
What is poulation density?
A species at risk of extinction.
What is endangered
An organism’s specific role or job in its environment.
What is a niche?
This is a logical explanation of of an observation that is drawn from your prior knowledge or experience.
What are inferences?
A factor that you observe or measure during an experiment
what is a dependent variable?
The parts of earth and the surrounding atmosphere where there is life.
What is a biosphere?
The instinctive seasonal movement of a population of organisms from one place to another.
What is migration?
When two species live closely together and at least one benefits, it’s called this type of relationship.
What is symbiosis?
comparing what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it.
What is critical thinking
the factors in an experiment that do not change.
What are constants?
When there are too many individuals for the resources available, this occurs.
What is overpopulation?
the kind of population change when food, shelter, sanitation, and medical care is available.
What is population increase?
a way of showing how energy moves through a community
A rule that describes a repeatable pattern in nature.
What is Scientific Law
A scientific investigation that tests how one factor affects another
What is a controlled experiment?
The largest number of individuals an environment can support over time.
What is carrying capacity
A population grows in this pattern when in ideal conditions and unlimited resources.
What is exponential growth?
When one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed, it’s called this.
What is commensalism?