Plants
Ecosystems
Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems
Genes and Heredity
Topic 8
100

The study of plants

Botany

100

Division of the biosphere into smaller units to study

Biomes

100

Interactions in nature

Symbiotic relationships

100

to come into possession of something

Inheritance

100

Proof, clues, things you can see, touch, smell, hear

Evidence

200

Pollen grains transported to stigma

pollination

200

four seasons, some rain,  plants - grass, animals - prairie dogs, squirrels, deer, buffalo

Prairie biome

200

change in an area where there has not been soil before

primary succession

200

the study of how different traits are passed from parent to offspring

Genetics

200

Educated guess based on evidence

inference

300

Plants growth towards or away from something

Tropism

300

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation

Water Cycle

300

change in an area due to natural disasters

secondary succession

300

Different versions of the same traits

alleles

300

the way you see or interpret the world based on your beliefs and views

worldview

400

Period when an organism's growth or activity stops

Dormancy

400

Series of food chains all together

Food Web

400

the number and variety of different species in an area.

biodiversity

400

Tool that shows the different gene combinations

Punnett Square

400
View of the world based on one thing become and changing into something else

Evolution

500

Five things plants need

Air, space, water, soil, sun

500

Levels of the Energy Pyramid (from bottom to top)

Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer

500

four threats to biodiversity

overhunting, invasive species, pollution, habitat loss

500

 Genetic material that carries information from a parent to offspring.

DNA

500

worldview that God created the world in the beginning as described in Genesis 1

Creation