Picky Palate
I prefer to make my own food
Producer or autotroph
The realm where life on Earth exists that extends from a few kilometers into the atmosphere to a few kilometers into the earth's crust
Biosphere
A change in a substance that does not change it's identity.
Physical change
And explanation for how or why something happened, the cause
Theory
A simple testable statement that predicts the answer to the question
Hypothesis
I cannot make my own food and prefer to eat another organism
Consumer or heterotroph
A way to see the overlapping paths that energy can take through an ecosystem.
Food web
Consists of one or more pure substances chemically bonded
Molecule
Explains what happened, the nature of the phenomenon
Law
The information gathered from an experiment?
Data
An animal that eats other animals
Carnivore
These two things determine an area's climate
Temperature and precipitation
A change in a substance that results in one or more new substances being formed
Chemical change
What is the Biology?
The study of life
A way to test the hypothesis.
Experiment
I prefer to eat both insects and fruit so I am classified as this?
Omnivore
The set of plants and animals that are adapted for life in those parts of Earth characterized by a particular climate
Biome
A large molecule that speeds up the rate of specific chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy needed for the reaction to occur
Enzyme
How a person views and interprets the world
Worldview
The step in the process where you organize the data
Analysis
I prefer to eat dead organic material so that I can recycle the nutrients for use by other organisms
Decomposer
The community of organisms in a particular area along with the physical characteristics of their environment
Ecosystem
Amino acid chains
Proteins
What are the six characteristics of life?
Cells, reproduction, growth, response, use energy, organization
The final step in the Scientific process
Publishing (sharing) the results