ECOSYSTEMS
A factor, partially making up an ecosystem which can be described as non-living.
I call "abiotic"
a simplified representation of a system that can explain and help make predictions regarding phenomena
I call a "scientific model"
An animal class that ticks belong to.
I call "arachnid"
A step-by-step set of instructions for performing calculations or behaviors.
I call an "algorithm"
An app that allows you to use pictures of a particular organism in an environment to identify its species.
I call "iNaturalist"
A diagram that keeps track of energy flow.
I call "food web"
a type of block-based programming environment used to simulate real-world interactions between different agents
I call "StarLogo Nova"
a way to treat bacterial infection
I call "antibiotics"
expressions and statements used to tell the computer to execute certain actions, provided that certain criteria are true.
I call "conditionals"
The color of the type of blocks on StarLogo Nova that can check for collisions between agents.
I call "gray"
The analysis of how populations change over time
I call "population dynamics"
a type of computational model in which a system is modeled as a collection of autonomous entities with their own traits and behaviors, used to understand real-world outcomes
I call an "agent-based model"
The bacteria that causes Lyme Disease
I call "borrelia burgdorferi"
a type of error in a program's code that causes unanticipated behavior and does not generate an error message
I call "logic error"
a mass of undigested parts of a bird's food that some bird species occasionally regurgitate
I call "pellets"
The levels of study in ecology
I call "organism, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere."
part of summarizing models; what you will be able to learn from a model
I call "purpose"
The stage of a tick's life at which it is most infectious
I call "nymph"
a type of block that groups commands to do a particular function, which will only run if they are "called"
I call "procedures"
a characteristic of an agent that is not built-in on StarLogo Nova
I call a "custom trait"
The five types of ecological relationships
I call "predation, commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, competition"
Details of complex natural phenomena that are missing from a model.
an agent that causes disease
a plain language description of the steps in an algorithm
I call "pseudocode"
An abstract representation of an agent on StarLogo Nova.
I call a "breed"