Lesson 1-4 Vocab
Lesson 5-10 Vocab
Lesson 11-16 Vocab
Application
Miscellaneous
100
Scientists who study relationships between organisms and environments. 

What is an ecologist?

100

The location in an environment where an organism lives. 

What is a habitat?

100

A simple model of energy flow within a food web.

What is an energy pyramid?

100

The habitat type that was the most suitable to the blackworms.

What is gravel? 

100

Ms. Meyer's favorite color.

What is purple?

200

A marked off square or rectangular plot of land to determine where to collect samples.

What is a quadrat?

200

A group of organisms of the same species living in the same habitat. 

What is population? 

200

Organisms that eat dead organisms and wastes from other living organisms.

What is a decomposer?

200

What happens to an ecosystem if the producers become extinct.

What is everything dies?
200

"Least" harmful method of Zebra Mussel control.

What is biological?

300

Components that are the living organisms in an environment. 

What is Biotic?

300

Any fact that can be consumed or used by an organism.

What is a resource?

300

A disturbance that effects and ecosystem.

What is a disruption?

300

The processes that plants do.

What is photosynthesis AND cellular respiration?

300
What fire acts as during a prescribed burn.

What is a decomposer?

400

Components including all the physical, non-living parts of the environment, such as water, temperature, and sunlight. 

What is abiotic?

400

When plants use energy from the sun to convert some matter - carbon dioxide and water - into other kinds of matter - sugars and oxygen.

What is photosynthesis?

400

Something that limits the solution to a problem. 

What is a constraint?

400

The amount of energy that is transferred up to each level of the food web. 

What is 10%?

400

The remaining amount of energy (90%) is released as what kind of energy in the food web if it isn't transferred to the next organism in the food web.

What is heat energy (thermal energy)?

500

A specific path or area, often marked with a rope or measuring tape?

What is a Transect?

500

The variety of life at every level, from genes to species to ecosystems. 

What is biodiversity? 

500

A series of chemical reactions in plants and animals that breaks down sugars and releases energy.

What is cellular respiration? 

500

The relationship type where BOTH species benefit. 

What is mutualism?

500

Ms. Meyer's Cat's name/

What is Greta Jean?

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