Scientific Method
Environment 1
Environment 2
Ecology 1
Ecology 2
100
An orderly method of solving problems
What is Scientific method?
100
The study of how humans interact with the environment.
What is environmental Science?
100
All of the organisms living in an area together with their physical environment
What is ecosystem?
100
The living and once living parts of an ecosystem, including all of the plants and animals.
What is biotic factor?
100
The place an organism lives.
What is habitat?
200
A broad and comprehensive statement about what is thought to be true.
What is scientific theory?
200
The study of how living things interact with each other and with their nonliving environment.
What is ecology?
200
The largest population that an environment can support at any given time.
What is carrying capacity?
200
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factor?
200
A change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next.
What is evolution
300
The chance that something will happen.
What is probability?
300
Any natural material that is used by humans.
What is natural resource?
300
A relationship in which different individuals or populations attempt to use the same limited resource.
What is competition?
300
An individual living thing.
What is organism?
300
An inherited trait that increases an organism’s chance of survival and reproduction in a certain environment.
What is adaptation?
400
A testable explanation for an observation (i.e. an educated guess).
What is a hypothesis?
400
A resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural processes.
What is renewable resource?
400
A resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate that it is consumed.
What is non-renewable resource
400
A group of organisms that are closely related and that can mate to produce fertile offspring.
What is species?
400
A relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other.
What is symbiosis?
500
Populations that grow faster and faster
What is exponential growth?
500
Shows the productive area of earth needed to support one person in a particular country.
What is ecological footprint?
500
The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely.
What is sustainability
500
All the members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time.
What is population?
500
The job or function an organism performs.
What is niche?
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