Characteristics of Living Things
A human female has about 28 trillion cells.
What is cells/ organization?
frog, snake, water, bird, cow
What is water?
This is the axis where you would plot the DV on a graph.
What is the Y axis?
The least complex level of organization.
What is an organism?
This type of animal hunts and kills other animals for food.
What is a predator?
A tadpole turns into a frog.
What is growth?
wood, mushroom, bacteria, soil, cat
What is soil?
Identify the IV: A student wanted to test the effects of bandaid brand bandages on the rate at which a cut heals.
What is the band-aid brand bandage?
Many different species living together.
What is a community?
This is what bees, butterflies, beetles and hummingbirds do for the environment.
What is pollinate?
When you touch something hot, your hand moves away without you having to think about it.
What is react to stimuli?
Taiga, Tundra, Tropical Rain Forest
What is the tropical rain forest?
Identify the DV: A study found that rabbits have more babies when fed dog food rather than carrots.
What is how many babies the rabbits produce.
What is a population?
This is what you call organisms that break down organisms.
What are decomposers?
A mushroom decomposes a dead fox in the forest.
What is metabolism/ energy use?
Community, Ecosystem, Population, Organism
What is ecosystem?
A farmer wanted to know if feeding his cows corn would help them grow more muscle than their normal diet of grass. He gave all his cows corn from birth to see if they would make more muscle. What is the error in his experiment?
What is there is no control group?
Two methods used to measure the size of a population.
What is the sample method and the mark and recapture method?
This is what you call an organism that eats organisms that another organism hunted and killed.
What is a scavenger?
When you have too much sugar in your blood, your body releases insulin to lower your blood glucose levels.
What is homeostasis?
Space, Food, Water, Oxygen, Minerals
What is food?
You are testing the effects of different brands of potting soil on how large tomatoes grow. Identify two things that should be kept constant or controlled between the groups.
What are type of tomatoes, sunlight, water, and/or time to grow.
Identify the method of estimating population size best used for fast moving organisms that migrate such as pigeons or deer.
What is mark and recapture?
This is what you call an organism that lives off another organism.
What is a parasite?