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A testable explanation for an observation.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Many-celled organisms that have cell walls and make their own food.
What is plants?
100
The top layer in a tropical rain forest is the ______.
What is the emergent layer?
100
Species A benefits and Species B is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
100
The group that does not receive the experimental treatment in an experiment.
What is the control group?
200
A logical statement about what will happen in an experiment.
What is a prediction?
200
Insects eating crops and are not killed by insecticide is an example of ________.
What is resistance?
200
The distance north or south of the equator, as measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
200
Relative distribution of individuals (examples: clumped, uniform, random).
What is dispersion?
200
The number and variety of species that live in the area.
What is biodiversity?
300
May be broken down by natural processes.
What is biodegradable?
300
Single-celled and many celled organisms that may be plant-like, animal-like, or fungus-like.
What is protists.
300
Estuaries receive fresh nutrients from ______ and _____.
What is rivers and oceans?
300
Professionals who study and make predictions about human populations.
What are demographers?
300
Single-celled organisms that lack nuclei.
What is bacteria?
400
The probability of an unwanted outcome.
What is risk?
400
What are organisms that eat both plants and animals called?
What is omnivores?
400
This organisms produces most of the food in an aquatic ecosystem.
What is phytoplankton?
400
All the different genes contain in all members of a population?
What is genetic diversity?
400
In the ___ zone, the water is cool and dark.
What is benthic?
500
Because environmental science encompasses so many different fields of study, it is said to be a(n) ______ science.
What is interdisciplinary?
500
What is a term used to describe a linear sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next?
What is food chain?
500
The two main types of freshwater wetlands.
What is marshes and swamps?
500
Tourist experiences among unique wildlife and ecosystems.
What is ecotourism?
500
What caused the 1991 cholera outbreak in Lima, Peru?
What is lack of clean water?
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