Beginning of the Year
This requirement in Part 2 of the summer work was quite unusual, as far as summer work goes.
What is to play outside?
In the island biogeography lab, this shape, in the colors of red, blue, yellow, and green, represented the islands.
What is a circle?
The acronym HIPPCO reminds us of the threats to biodiversity. I am sure kudzu and Florida pythons would know the "I" stands for this.
What are invasive species?
A perfect example of mutualism is the relationship between the clownfish and this plantlike marine animal.
What is the sea anemone?
This term refers to a close relationship between two species.
What is symbiosis?
An early article we read chronicled the evolutionary relationship between bats and these would-be prey insects.
What are moths?
In the edible soil lab, this food represented the parent material.
What is an Oreo?
This type of biodiversity is a measure of the biological variation that occurs within species.
What is genetic diversity?
This K-selected mammal has the largest gestation period in the animal kingdom--a whopping 22 months!
What is the elephant?
A panda, since it only eats bamboo and lives naturally in China, is the quintesscential example of this type of niche behavioralist.
What is a specialist?
Give the out-of-this-world word that finishes "My dad is an ________", the name of the CER activity we did on the second day.
What is alien?
In one trial of the bubble survivorship lab, we let the bubbles fall the floor to demonstract a lack of this trait demonstrated by K-selected species.
What is parental care?
While species richness is the number of different species in an ecosystem, this is the relative abundance of different species in an exosystem.
What is species evenness?
Tapeworms, bedbugs, mosquitoes, and the tongue-eating crustacean are all examples of this.
What are parasites?
The major difference between lakes and oceans is this characteristic, the measure of how salty a body of water is.
What is salinity?
Our first assignment was to work together as groups to use string to carry an egg of this endangered bird to my classroom.
What is the sage grouse?
During the primary productivity lab, black contruction paper was taped around the bottles to prevent this biological process from occuring.
What is photosynthesis?
In addition to proximity to the mainland, this other criteria determines the biobiversity of an island.
What is size?
We used wolves and coyotes to demonstrate this concept, a natural effort to avoid competition.
What is resource partitioning?
The primary and secondary varieties of this concept both describe how land changes over time, though only primary starts with bare rock?
What is succession?
Many nutrient cycles are covered in Unit 1, including this cycle that lacks a gas phase?
What is the phosphorus cycle?
In the REAL soil lab, this powder is supposed to make the soil more basic, though many of us did not see those results.
What is chalk (calcium carbonate or limestone)?
Forests providing timber, coral reef providing medicines, deserts providing oil are all examples of this ecosystem service category.
What are provisioning services?
In a food chain scenario, a wildebeest eats grass and a lion eats the wildebeest. This is the specific role the lion plays in this food web.
What is a secondary consumer?
How fast do your fingernails grow? That how quickly the U.S and Europe are moving away from each other, demonstrating this event caused by divergent plates.
What is seafloor spreading?