The terms for living and non-living factors in an ecosystem.
What are biotic and abiotic?
100
The term for a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce.
What is an adaptation?
100
Multicellular, perform photosynthesis to make their own food, example - white pine tree.
What are Plants?
100
The term for an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer / autotroph?
100
Tool used to measure small amounts of liquid.
What is a graduated cylinder?
200
The term for an individual living thing.
What is an organism?
200
The term for a trait that can be passed on from parent to offspring.
What is a hereditary / inherited trait?
200
Multicellular, decompose dead things, example - Morel Mushroom.
What are Fungi?
200
The term for a consumer that only eats other consumers.
What is a carnivore?
200
Unit of measurement that you would use to measure an ant.
What are millimeters?
300
Several rabbits, deer, and turkeys live close together. What term would describe this scenario?
Community
300
What is the difference between natural selection and artificial selection?
Artificial selection is when humans are involved in selectively breeding organisms for specific traits; natural selection is when the organisms who are better able to survive and reproduce in their environment pass on their genes.
300
Single-celled, live in extreme places, example - Halophiles & Methanogens
What are Archaebacteria?
300
The two-word label for an organism in a food web that eats the autotroph.
What is a primary consumer?
300
What does the root word hemi- mean?
Half
400
What is a population?
Multiple organisms of the same species living together in a given area.
400
The term for the change in genetic characteristics of a population over time.
What is evolution?
400
Single-celled, live in common places, some decompose dead things, example - Escherichia coli (E. coli)
What are eubacteria?
400
The trophic level in which the most energy is available.
What are the producers?
400
What is the root word that means above or beyond?
Hyper-
500
How are an ecosystem and a community different?
Ecosystems include abiotic (non-living) factors, communities are only biotic (living) factors.
500
Describe how resistance develops in a population of bugs.
Bugs that are immune to pesticide will survive, pass on their traits, and the next generation will have more bugs that are resistant - meaning the pesticide does not affect them.
500
Usually single-celled, some can use the sun's energy to make their own food, examples - Amoebas, Algae, etc.
What are Protists?
500
Food Chain: Grass - Grasshopper - Frog - Snake
If the grass has 1985 calories of energy. How many calories will the FROG get?
19.85 calories.
500
Experimental question: Does the brand of hand santizer affect how many germs are killed?
Identify the IV & DV.
IV - Brand of Hand Santizer
DV - Number of Germs Killed