Vocabulary
Shallow pools of seawater that exist as a separate body of water, usually only during low-tide.
What are tide pools.
What we need to maintain the balance of live and human health.
What is biodiversity?
A way to organize information into groups and subgroups.
What is a classification system?
The acronym used to remember the names of the levels of taxonomy.
What is Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Soup?
When there are no more of a species left on the planet.
What is extinct?
A species that is responsible for breaking down dead organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a decomposer?
A community of living and nonliving things within their environment.
What is an ecosystem.
The classification of living things.
What is taxonomy.
A four-species-long example of a food chain.
Example
House cat -> sparrow -> beetle ->dead log
The name of the domain where human beings reside.
What is eukaryotes?
Living things that help humans know when something might be wrong within an ecosystem.
What is a bioindicator?
Shows the transfer of energy and matter within an ecosystem.
What are food webs.
A new-aged way to classify living things without the use of taxonomy.
What is DNA testing?
Name four species that fall under the same class as human beings. (Hint: Mammalia)
Examples: cats, dogs, elephants, whales, pigs, cows, etc.
Considered the language of science.
What is Latin?
A distinguishing characteristic.
What is a trait?
The keystone species of a tide pool.
What is a sea star? (Will accept star fish.)
This can be used to help identify an unknown organism.
What is a dichotomous key?
The number of categories in the Domain level of taxonomy.
What is three?
80% of these are made from natural sources. Humans use us to get well and stay well.
What are medicines?
The the scientific, taxonomic name of an organism consists of these two levels of classification.
What is the Genus and Species?
A system that was set up to protect native plant and animals that live within those ecosystems.
What is the National Park Service?
The 8 levels of classification by name from least specific to most specific.
What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?
Five different categories you could use to organize a pantry.
Canned Vegetables
Canned fruit
Soups
Sauces
Pasta Mixes
Canned Pasta
Snacks
Etc.
A scientist who studies how humans impact ecosystems.
What is a conservation biologist.