Scientific Method
Population Growth
Eco Vocab
Grab Bag
Cycles
100
a well designed experiment has ________ variable.
What is ONE?
100
top of a logistic growth curve
What is carrying capacity?
100
group of the same species living in one area
What is a population?
100
occurs after lava flow or retreating glacier
What is primary succession?
100
Source of energy in nearly all ecosystmems
What is the sun?
200
the group WITHOUT the independent variable
What is the control group?
200
quick or uncontrolled growth
What is exponential growth?
200
the fourth step in a food chain
What is a tertiary consumer?
200
Highest power of our microscopes
What is 400X?
200
process that stores Carbon in a high energy molecule
what is photosynthesis?
300
a well designed experiment must have
What is a control group?
300
disease, competition, resources
What is a density dependent factor?
300
happens as DDT moves up the food chain
What is biomagnification?
300
Most important organisms in the nitrogen cycle.
What is BACTERIA?
300
carbon sinks
rocks, oceans and air
400
a well tested hypothesis in science
What is a theory?
400
earthquakes, fires, volcanoes, hurricanes
What is a density-independent factor?
400
step in a food chain
What is a trophic level?
400
algae's trophic level
What is an autrotroph/primary producer?
400
process converts nitrogen gas into ammonia
What is nitrogen fixation?
500
The variable that is measured in an experiment
What is the dependent variable?
500
shape of an age structure for a developing country
What is a pyramid?
500
Organisms that do not need/ or are dependent on sunlight to survive
What is chemosynthetic bacteria?
500
total magnification
What is eyepiece X objective?
500
water evaporting from the surface of leaves
What is transpiration?