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Animals that consume other animals.
What is a predation?
This an event that has rapid/dramatic impacts on environmental conditions.
What is a disturbance?
This is an educated guess made about an observation or question.
What is a hypothesis?
These are organisms that photosynthesize.
What are primary producers?
This is an insect that parasitizes another insect.
What is a parasitoid?
This is a disturbance dramatically alters, but does not destroy, all local organisms.
What is secondary succession?
This is a requirement of scientific studies that allows future scientists to perform the same study and get the same results.
What is repeatability?
The two factors that determine a biome.
What are temperature and precipitation (moisture)?
The relationship between manta rays and remoras is an example of this.
What is mutualism?
This is the group of organisms that first re-colonize after a primary disturbance.
What is a pioneer species?
This type of experiment alters variables to change behaviors or outcomes based on a certain hypothesis.
What is a manipulative experiment?
Sea otters and wolves are examples of this.
What are keystone species?
Mosquitos suck blood from other animals to gain food and leave an itchy bite. This is an example of what type of interaction?
What is parasitism?
This is the largest restoration project in the country.
What is the Florida Everglades Restoration Project?
If I am doing research on the effects of nicotine on people, yet I get funding from a big cigarette company, I must do this when I publish.
What is declaring conflict of interest?
These are organisms that break down nonliving organic matter into soil components.
What are decomposers?
This is a battle for resources amongst one species.
What is intraspecific competition?
This is a place where captive breeding programs are attempted.
What is a zoo?
Before a scientific paper is published, it must go through this process.
What is peer review?
Urchins eat kelp, and sea otters eat urchins. When sea otter populations drop, __________ populations will boom.
What are urchins?