Observations and Inferences
What are observations?
tube-like structure for sucking fluids for an insect
What is a proboscis?
What are abiotic structures?
benefits humans obtain from the environment
What is an ecosystem service?
organism that makes its own food
What is an atuto troph
Explanations or assumptions
What are inferences?
tough outer protective cover
What is an exoskeleton?
Living parts of the environment
biotic
to move from one area to another
migrate
the mass of matte that is mae by an ecosystem
biomass
what individuals in the environment eat
What are food sources?
A baby milkweed bug is called a _____
nymph
all of the living populations in a place
anything that controls how large a population can get
limiting factor
evey living thing
what is the biosphere
The place an organism lives.
What is its habitat?
process of shedding its exoskeleton
What is molting?
Ecosystems in a similar environment
What is a biome
all the water in the whole planet
what is the hydrosphere?
unit of energy
what is a calorie
singular, only one--of a species in a habitat
A group of milkweed bug eggs
What is a clutch?
Organisms that eat dead stuff
What are decomposers
the capasity to do work
What is energy?
organism that eats other organisms
what is a consumer