Living, Nonliving, or Dead?
The Biosphere
Energy Matters!
What is Science?
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100
A singular living thing.
What is an organism?
100
The abiotic source of most energy on Earth. Producers get their energy from this.
What is the sun?
100
The 3 states of Matter
What are solids, liquids, and gases?
100
The definition of biology.
What is the study of life?
100
An infectious microbe that has DNA and lives inside of a host organism.
What is a virus?
200
The universal genetic code for organisms, that acts as an instruction manual for cells.
What is DNA?
200
The source of energy for decomposers.
What are dead or decaying organisms?
200
2 requirements for something to be considered matter.
What is has mass and takes up space?
200
Numbers are an example of this, which we collect during experiments.
What is data?
200
The meaning of "C. E. R. ".
What is Claim, Evidence, Reasoning?
300
The state of internal balance that all organisms try to reach, to keep themselves stable.
What is homeostasis?
300
The first level of ecological organization including both biotic and abiotic factors. All organisms and their environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
300
Step of the water cycle that involves water changing from a gas to a liquid in the atmosphere due to cool temperature.
What is condensation?
300
An educated guess, based on background information and inferences. Your proposed answer to a big question.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Thermal vents are formed when cold ocean water seeps into the oceanic crust, is heated by magma, and then spews back out, often with dissolved nutrients.
They provide essential energy and nutrients to producers in areas of the ocean where sunlight is not available in this process.
What is Chemosynthesis?
400
The difference between nonliving and dead.
What is: If something is Dead, it exhibited the characteristics of life at some point, but not currently. If something is Nonliving, it has never and will never exhibit the characteristics of life.
400
The Panamanian Coati is an omnivore, feeding primarily on insects or other small animals. They sit at the third position on a food chain, the second spot AFTER producers. Their position in the food chain.
What is a secondary consumer?
400
The process in which plants and animals RELEASE carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere?
What is respiration?
400
The variable that we purposefully change.
What is an independent variable?
400
For the following Diagram, name the organism at each levels of the food chain IN THIS ORDER: Producer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer, Decomposer.
What is:
-Grass
-Field Mouse
-Raccoon
-Fungi
500
The 2 characteristics of life that best relate to the following situation:
During a blizzard, the outside temperature is in the low 10's to mid-20's. Our internal body temperature starts to drop. Human muscles will then contract and cause shivering and goosebumps, which both cause an increase in body heat.
What is response to stimuli and homeostasis?
500
2 ways that energy can move through the ocean ecosystem.
What is solar energy and photosynthesis, chemical energy being used up by organisms, or recycled by decomposers, or lost as heat?
500
The product of dead organisms NOT decomposing, but instead settling into sediments over millions of years. Burning these in power plants increases carbon dioxide.
What are fossil fuels?
500
The meaning of the unit "M".
What is molar, moles, molarity, or concentration?
500
We have created self-sufficient terrariums in class. Please explain in a MINIMUM of 3 sentences how it is possible that a Woodlouse can survive in a terrarium for over 2 weeks.
What is:
-They are decomposers/ They feed off of wood
-They do not need living things/ they eat decaying organisms
-We have added water for them/ The Water Cycle is occurring
-They have air/ The Carbon Cycle is occurring
-They have light/ Photosynthesis is occurring