Scientific Practices
What is the base attitude behind all science?
What is curiosity?
What is biodiversity?
What is the variety of life on Earth.
Producers are autotrophs which means that they get their food from which source?
What is they make their own food using energy from the sun or a chemical compund?
Bottom up effects occur in an ecosystem starting with which level of the trophic pyramid?
What is producers?
Evapotranspiration is a step in which biogeochemical cycle?
What is the water cycle?
What is the difference between independent and dependent variables?
What is independent variables are manipulated and depended variables are measured?
Which species colonize an area first in PRIMARY succession?
What is lichens or mosses.
An organism can be at different levels of the trophic pyramid depending on which factor?
What is the environment that it is found in and the organisms within that environment?
What is a method used to measure ecological fitness?
What is
Survival/Viability
Fecundity
Mating Success
Gametogenesis
Compatibility
Nitrogen is usable by animals and plants in which forms/molecules?
What is ammonium or nitrates?
True or false: The scientific method is only a linear process.
What is false?
What is an ecosystem?
What is a functional system of a community based on biotic and abiotic factors.
What is the name of an organism at the top of the food chain?
What is an apex predator?
A bottleneck effect can be observed when...
What is when a population decreases dramatically in a short amount of time?
Assimilation occurs in which biogeochemical cycle?
What is the nitrogen cycle?
What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative data?
What is quantitative data answers a "how much/many" question and qualitative data answers a "why/how" question?
What is one way that we know something is living?
What is one of the following:
Are made of one or more cells
Can maintain homeostasis (Stable state of body conditions)
Use matter and energy
Has a genetic code (DNA/RNA)
Can respond to the environment
Can reproduce (Sexually or Asexually)
Can grow and develop
What is the order of trophic levels from most biomass to least?
What is producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, and quaternary consumers?
A trophic cascade occurs due to this level of the food chain?
What is an apex predator?
The carbon cycle is important for animals for two reasons, which are...
What is
1) Carbon dioxide from the air is used by plants to make sugars which animals eat.
2) Oxygen is produced as a byproduct of photosynthesis and is necessary for cellular respiration.
List the correct linear order of the scientific method.
What is Question, Background, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, and Conclusion?
What is the correct order of the ecological hierarchy?
What is Biosphere, Global Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Community Ecology, Population Ecology, Organism Ecology.
What percentage of matter and energy is lost between trophic levels through heat transfer?
What is 90%?
What is carrying capacity?
What is the number of individuals of a given species that can survive in one area based on the resources available?
What are four locations that carbon can be found in within the carbon cycle?
Sample response:
What is carbon dioxide, glucose, plant tissue, and animal tissue?