Producer
True or False: I make my own food.
True
True or False: Animals are consumers.
True.
What date is Christmas?
December 25
In the grass => rabbit => hawk food web, what would happen if there was an increase in rabbits?
More grass
What is a control variable?
A variable that remains constant and doesn't change or else it would vastly change the outcome of the experiment.
Plants need water, air, and what else to survive?
Sunlight
What is a natural predator to the tiger salamander
Garter snake, owls, snapping turtle
I am a green snake and I use the leaves as a cover to blend in. The leaves are...
Camouflage
In the grass => rabbit => hawk food web, how would grass be affected if there was an increase in hawks?
More hawks means less rabbits to eat grass which means more grass.
What is the importance of a fair test?
Conducting a fair test is one of the most important ingredients of doing good, scientifically valuable experiments. To insure that your experiment is a fair test, you must change only one factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same.
True or False: Plants are the only place where new energy is made in the ecosystem.
True
Majority of their life is spent in water, absorb water through their skin
What is the one letter in the English alphabet that is not included in the names of any of the 50 states in the U.S?
Q
In the grass => rabbit => hawk food web, what is there the most of?
Grass
We identified the components and relationships in a vernal pool. We look at the vernal pool, just like how we looked at our landfills, as a ....
System
True or False: Plants get matter for growth from the sun
False
Where is the Bayshore Pool?
New Jersey
Where is Mount Rushmore?
South Dakota
What is an organism without any natural predators called?
Apex Predator
When analyzing data in an experiment, we are looking for this "p" word to help understand it
Patterns
What is it called when the plants absorb energy from the sunlight?
Photosynthesis
Imagine the scenario where we think that the tiger salamanders disappeared due to a decrease in prey. What data can we look at to see?
Can check population of fairy shrimp and other prey for salamanders and compare between this year and last year. If fairy shrimp went down, then we can investigate why that might be the case (decrease in water quality, lack of algae)
What is a group of giraffes called?
A tower
In the grass => rabbit => hawk food web, what would happen if there was a forest fire that almost wiped out all of the grass?
All other organisms would eventually die
If I wanted to test the impact of air on plant growth, how would I set up my experiment?
Multiple Groups
Air is the variable that changes
Sunlight, soil, and water stay the same