Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Moon Jellies
Fun Facts
100

When something stays mostly the same over time even as things are being added and removed

What is stability?

100

Within a population, _______ are always being born and dying

What are organisms?

100

The _____ ___ moon jelly population is increasing in size rapidly

What is the Glacier Sea?

100

All living things depend on _____ ______ _____

What are other living things?

200

A group of the same type of organism living in the same area

What is a population?

200

If the number of births and deaths are _____, then the population size will be stable

What is equal?

200

The color of a moon jelly

What is transparent?

200

The largest ecosystem in the world is the ___

What is the sea?

300

All living and non-living things interacting in a particular area

What is an ecosystem?

300

A system can be ______ even as things are being _______ and ________ from it

What is stable, added to, and removed?

300

Moon jellies typically eat small animals called ___________

What are zooplanktons?

300

__% of the world is covered by water

What is 71%?

400

Anything with parts that interact to make a whole

What is a system?

400
If there are more births than deaths in a given time, then the size of the population will _______. If there are fewer births than deaths, then the size of the population will _______

What is increase and decrease?

400

One predator of the moon jelly is the ___ ______

What is a sea turtle?

400

The best way to wipe out a species is to remove them from their _____ environment

What is natural?

500

A way to describe a large, rapid increase in a population

What is a population explosion?

500

The size of a population can be affected by any population that is connected to it in a ____ ___

What is a food web?

500

Moon jellies travel in groups called "_____"

What are smacks?

500

What are four extinct species? (Specifically mentioned in the Bill Nye Biodiversity video)

What are dodo birds, pearly mussels, bighorn sheep, and passenger pigeons?

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