Scientific Method
Classification
Ecology
The Pogue
Microbiology
100
Define the Problem
What is the first step of the Scientific Method?
100
the language of classification
What is Latin
100
the study of the interaction between living organisms and their environment
What is Ecology
100
To determine the health of an ecosystem by comparing Abiotic to Biotic elements
What was our purpose in our Pogue study?
100
Archaebacteria
What is the name of the oldest bacteria?
200
Graph it
What do scientists do with data charts?
200
Carolus Linnaeus
Who is the scientist named as the "father of genetics"?
200
The energy transfer between organisms
What does the arrow in a food web indicate?
200
Plankton
What forms the base of the food web in aquatic ecosystems like the pogue?
200
Protista
What are the unicellular organisms with a Nucleus?
300
An educated (possible) explanation of an observed phenomenom
What is a Hypothesis
300
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
List the 7 categories of the classification system from largest to smallest
300
Photosynthesis and Respiration
What 2 processes regulate the Carbon cycle?
300
Nitrogen
What essential nutrient was alarmingly low?
300
Symbiosis/ Mutualism
Name the relationship between tube worms and bacteria
400
Control / not changed during an experiment Variable - what is being tested
When conducting an experiment what two conditions MUST always be satisfied?
400
Bacteria are prokaryote, Protista are Eukayote
Name the major characteristic separating the Protista Kingdom from the Monera kingdom
400
Chemosynthesis
What is the metabolic process that is supporting the food web in the deep abyss
400
Too many consumers
What biotic evidence indicated a lack of energy?
400
Chemosynthesis
What is the transformation of hydrogen sulfide to sugar compounds?
500
a. was the purpose accomplished? b. Was there evidence to support your hypothesis? c. What data was gathered to direct the next experiment?
What are the 3 questions a scientists addresses in his/her conclusion?
500
The abbreviated "two names" of every and any living organism.
What is binomial nomenclature
500
Ammonification and Nitrification (adds Nitrogen to the system) Denitrification (takes it out)
Name the 2 processes that ADD Nitrogen to a system and One that returns Nitrogen to the atmospher
500
Saxotoxin
What is the neural toxin produced when diatoms overpopulate
500
Archaebacteris vs. Eubacteria
Oxygen is the element that separates the division of these two species of bacteria
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