The Scientific Method
Levels of Ecological Organization
Climate vs Weather
Biomes
Random Facts
100
This is the initial step of the scientific method, often in the form of ______________.
What is asking a question?
100
This is a single living thing, like a single bear or a single oak tree.
What is an organism?
100
This is an example of ________.
What is weather?
100
This biome is the driest of all, receiving less than 10 inches of rain per year.
What is the desert?
100
The principle's name of this school is _________.
Who is Andria?
200
The factor that is changed by the scientist in an experiment.
What is the independent variables?
200
This is a ______________.
What is an ecosystem?
200
Scientists say that the polar ice caps are melting due to long-term changes in this global pattern.This change is called _____.
What is climate?
200
This biome is a huge body of saltwater that is home to sharks, whales, and coral.
What is a marine biome?
200
The five boroughs of New York City are ______.
What are Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island? 
300
This is a testable, educated guess about the outcome of an experiment.
What is a hypothesis? 
300
The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism, which provides it with the food, water, shelter, and space it needs to survive.
What is a habitat?
300
True or False: You can predict the climate for a specific day next year.
What is False?
You can predict the weather for a specific day, but only a general climate.
300
This biome is called the _____________.
What is the grassland?
300
The largest country in the world is ___________.
What is Russia?
400
After analyzing results, a scientist will draw one of these, summarizing if the hypothesis was supported.
What is a conclusion?
400
The world-wide level of ecological organization; the sum of all ecosystems on Earth.
What is a biosphere?
400
If a scientist says, "The winters here are becoming milder on average," they are referring to a change in this.
What is climate? 
400
This biome is a _____________.
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What is a temperate rainforest?
A temperate forest is a biome characterized by distinct seasons, moderate temperatures, and a mix of broadleaf deciduous and coniferous evergreen trees.
400
True or False: The human nose can distinguish over one trillion different scents.
What is TRUE?
500
The steps of the scientific method are _________.
What is ask a question, do background research, conduct an experiment, analyze data and draw conclusions?
500
This level includes all the different populations (species) that live and interact in an area.
What is a community?
500
A record-breaking heatwave in Europe during the summer is an example of an extreme _____ event.
What is weather?
500
Name one key difference between a freshwater biome and marine biome.
What is freshwater biomes have low salt concentration and marine has a higher salt concentration or ______?
500
True or False: Peanuts are a type of nut.
What is False?
They are legumes, like beans! 