An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence
What is science?
Proteins that act as biological catalysts
What are enzymes?
Organisms that make their own food
What are producers?
The basic unit of life
What is a cell?
A general place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
A proposed answer to a scientific question (Why? How? What?)
What is a hypothesis?
What is a catalyst?
This trophic level only eats producers
What is a primary consumer
All living things are made up of cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and new cells are produced from existing cells
What are the tennents of cell theory?
Any relationship in which two species live closely together
What is symbiosis?
A broad explanation for an observable phenomenon
What is a theory?
A reaction that releases energy
What is a spontaneous reaction?
Non-traditional Jeopardy Question: Where does the large fish get it's energy?
From consuming (eating) the small fish
Particles move from a higher concentration to a lower concentration
What is diffusion?
Where an organism lives and how it interacts with it's environment
What is a niche?
An outcome you think will happen (that includes variables)
What is a prediction?
The energy needed to get a reaction started
What is activiation energy?
A single pathway of energy transfer through an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
DNA at some point and a thin flexible membrane
What features do all cells have?
A species that causes dramatic change and increases biodiversity
What is a keystone species?
A factor, trait, or condition that can only be measured numerically (number of times/events/amounts) and relies on another variable to occur
What is a dependent variable?
A reaction that absorbs energy
What is a non-spontaneous reaction?
Non-traditional Jeopardy question: What is the trophic level of the frog?
Secondary or tertiary consumer
Converting chemical energy in food into compounds the cell can use
What are mitochondria?
A relationship between two species in which one benefits and the other neither benefits or is hurt
What is commensalism?