Name the living and nonliving factors that are present in a biome.
What is biotic and abiotic?
100
This is the term for when you watch a process or organism before drawing conclusions.
What is observation?
100
This is the term for an animal that gets hunted or eaten.
What is prey?
100
Define environmental factor.
What is any specific thing in surroundings (environment) that has an effect on something else?
100
Explain the term species - species interaction.
What is any event or relationship between two DIFFERENT species?
200
Define variable.
What is something that changes in an experiment?
200
Give one quality of a reliable experiment.
What is a control?
200
This is the term for the animal that hunts or eats another animal.
What is predator?
200
Define species.
What is a population of the same type of organisms capable of reproducing?
200
Explain the difference between an aquatic environment and a terrestrial environment.
What is terrestrial is land and aquatic is water?
300
Describe the term range of tolerance.
What is the variation of conditions that an organism can put up with and still survive?
300
Define hypothesis.
What is a prediction made before carrying out an experiment?
300
The three types of symbiotic relationships.
What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
300
Define consumer and give an example.
What is an organism that takes in energy from an outside source? (Examples vary)
300
This is the process of germination.
What is to begin to grow (sprout)?
400
Describe why producers are important in any environment.
What is because they are the origin of the food web after the sun and they feed consumers?
400
Surprise question: This is Ms. Chute's favorite color.
What is green?
400
Describe something that different species might compete for. Describe something that the same species might compete for.
Different - What is food, habitat, territory? Same - What is a mate?
400
Define habitat.
What is the area and environment in which an organism lives?
400
Explain commensalism and give an example.
What is a relationship in which one organism benefits and one organism is not affected. Example: Barnacle and whale
500
Define the term habitat and give an example.
What is the place where an organism lives and eats?
500
This is the last step of an experiment or a lab report.
What is the conclusion?
500
Define symbiosis and explain a real life example of it.
What is (parasitism, mutualism, commensalism) - Examples can vary.
500
Name the term for the best possible surrounding conditions for an animal. Give an example.
What is optimum environment? (Answers can vary.) Example: Certain fish can live in water that ranges from a little salty to very salty but they live best in water that is mildly salty.
500
Explain what a food web is and the information it contains.
What is a diagram that shows the relationship between producers, consumers, and decomposers in a specific biome and shows where organisms get their ENERGY (energy flow).