INTRO TO BIO
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE
ECOLOGY
POTPOURRI
100
The meaning of the greek words "bios" and "logos".
What is "life" and "study" (or study of)?
100
Using your senses to notice something about nature.
What is making an observation?
100
The basic unit of all life.
What is the cell.
100
The difference between a population and a community.
What is that a population only includes one species, while a community includes all of the groups of different organisms in a given area?
100
Contains a nucleus with protons and neutrons surrounded by a cloud of electrons.
What is an atom?
200
A complete living thing.
What is an organism?
200
An inference.
What is coming to a conclusion (based on prior knowledge or experience) about an observation.
200
As daylight shortens, leaves change color.
What is response to stimuli?
200
The origin of all energy in an ecosystem.
What is the sun?
200
The largest and the smallest land mammals.
What are the African elephant and the bumblebee bat?
300
This describes what the term species means.
What is a group of the same organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring?
300
"If ... (the independent variable), then.... (the dependent variable." NEVER a "guess.
What is the hypothesis?
300
The difference between growth and development.
What is one refers to an addition of mass, while the other refers to new abilities arising because of that addition of mass?
300
A definition for biome.
What is a larger group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar communities?
300
The difference between a asteroid and a meteor.
What is location? an asteroid is a rocky body in orbit around Sun, whereas a meteor is a rocky body that enters the Earth's atmosphere.
400
A scientific theory is only valid if this is present.
What is an explanation of nature, supported by many observations and experiments over time?
400
Qualitative data reports descriptions of observations, while quantitative data reports numeric (numbers) measurements.
What is the difference between qualitative data and quantitative data?
400
Definition of adaptation.
What is a structure or behavior that is inherited?
400
The key organisms involved in the nitrogen cycle.
What are bacteria?
400
The death cap mushroom, a box jellyfish, pufferfish, duck-billed platypus, mistletoe, and an emperor scorpion.
What are toxic (poisonous) organisms?
500
Observations (or data) that are not consistent with current scientific understandings often lead to further investigations. Describe this using the example of how scientists used to group bats with birds.
What is that, initially, bats and birds were grouped together because both had wings. Further investigation led scientists to understand that bats' wings are more similar to mammalian limbs than bird wings. Examination of genes confirmed this relationship?
500
The significance of the control group.
What is to serve as a standard for comparison of experimental results?
500
Your heart pumping to raise blood pressure. A horse lathering (sweating) after a long gallop.
What is homeostasis?
500
A primary consumer, a secondary consumer, and a tertiary consumer in a jungle ecosystem.
What is (a herbivore), (something that consumes herbivores), and (something that consumes organisms that consume herbivores)? ex butterfly, frog, snake or toucan, snake, mongoose
500
These are examples of 3 different types of symbiotic relationships.
What is (2 organisms living together and both are helped), (2 organisms living together and one is helped and the other is neither helped nor harmed), and (2 organisms living together and one benfits at the expense of the other)?
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