Labs 1-2
something that you can't wear to lab
What are shorts, tank top, exposed midriff, opened toe shoes?
LEED-certified building
What is the Biological Sciences building?
magnification of ocular lens
What is 10x?
abiotic component of any environment
curve shape of an exponential growth model
What is a J-curve?
tool used to measure the long distances
What is a measuring wheel?
energy efficient lightbulb
What is LED?
sterilization method using a filter attached to syringe
What is mechanical sterilization?
trophic level with the greatest biomass (most abundant)
What is a producer?
study of the interaction between an organism and its environment
What is population ecology?
space occupied by a liquid or an object
What is volume?
release of harmful chemicals from one plant that affects another plant's growth/development
What is allelopathy?
sugar/molecule metabolized by coliforms
measures the concentration of hydrogen ions in water
What is a pH meter?
trophic level with the greatest biomass (most abundant)
What is a producer?
graphed on the x-axis, graphed on the y-axis
tool used in lab to measure wattage
What is a power meter?
chemical control of invasive species
What is a pesticide/biopesticide?
(botanicals, inorganic, microbials)
organism that can be a producer, primary consumer, and/or secondary consumer
What is plankton?
a density independent factor
What is climate/weather/natural disasters/pollutants?
section of research article: author's interpretation of results
What is discussion?
category of allelochemicals
What is terpenes/alkaloids/phenols?
colony color of coliforms that produce galactosidase
What is pink?
how cultural eutrophication occurs
What is excess nutrients (nitrates, phosphates) from runoff feeding algae?
more realistic growth model of changes in population
What is a logistic growth model?