Nature of science
What is science?
Science is an organized way of studying our physical and natural world
What is all matter made up of?
Atoms
What is the biosphere?
Part of the Earth that supports living organisms
What's a carnivore?
A carnivore is an consumer that eats other animals.
What are biomes?
Large areas with broadly similar environmental conditions that house many different ecosystems.
What are the seven steps of the scientific method?
1.) Ask a question
2.) Research
3.) Hypothesis
4.) Experiment
5.) Collect data
6.) Analyze data
7.) Conclusion
What are the two types of bonds?
Covalent and Ionic
What is an abiotic factor?
The non-living physical features of the environment
What's a scavenger?
An animal that eats the carcass of other animals.
What is the difference between intraspecific and interspecific competition?
Intraspecific competition: competition among members in the same species
Interspecific competition: competition among members of different species
What's an element?
A pure substance that consists of only one type of atom
What is a biotic factor?
Living, or once living organisms
What's a detritivore?
They commonly digest decomposers that live on and in detritus particles.
What is ecological succession?
A series of somewhat predictable events occur in a community over time.
What's a similarity and difference between protons and neutrons?
Similarity: they have the same mass
Difference: protons have a positive charge, neutrons have no charge
This is the cell's "juice" where organisms float and chemical reactions occur.
Cytoplasm
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain shows how energy is transferred between organisms. A food web illustrates the many food sources an organism has.
Define biodiversity
The total of all genetically-based variation of all organisms in the biosphere.
What is an Isotope?
An atom of an element that has the same number of proteins, but a different number of neutrons.
What is the carbon cycle?
A series of processes that show how carbon compounds are interconverted into the environment
What do resilient ecosystems have the ability to adapt to?
Changing conditions