Ecosystem
Waves
Vocabulary
Random
100
What are three examples of an abiotic factor?
The Sun, water, air
Also acceptable: soil, rocks, minerals, clouds, mountains
100
Name 3 characteristics for measuring a wave.
Wavelength, Frequency, and Amplitude
100
What is a ecosystem?
a community of abiotic and biotic things interacting with other organisms and their environment to carry out functions that they could not do on their own
100
What are the three different types of waves you have learned about?
Light, sound, and water waves
200
Name 3 types of ecosystems
Rainforest, forest, grassland, desert, mountain, tundra
200
What is the medium that we are able to hear sounds?
The medium is air. Sounds are caused by vibrations that move the air particles to create the sounds we hear.
200
What is carbon dioxide?
A type of gas that humans breathe out and trees input to make photosynthesis.
200
Which organism is both prey and predator?
Deer, Snake, Mouse, Frog, Grasshopper
300
If plants were removed from an ecosystem, how would that affect the other organisms and environment?
There would be a decrease in the food supply for animals that eat the plants for energy and there would be less oxygen for the environment.
Decomposers break down matter into the soil for plants to get nutrients. Animals then eat the plants to get their energy. This shows how they BOTH need decomposers.
300
If I place a rubber duck into a wave, what is the motion of the duck as the waves pass by?
The duck would move up and down. It will not move side to side following the waves.
300
What does biotic mean?
A living element in an environment.
300
What does the arrows in a food web represent?
The flow of matter.
400
What does the arrows in a food web represent?
The flow of matter.
Matter is materials or particles that make up both living and nonliving things
400
What has a direct relationship to amplitude only?
Energy.
400
What is photosynthesis?
the process by which plants make food from water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight
400
Bats are blind but just like any other animal, they need to be able to find and eat food to gain energy to survive. What is the term that refers to what bats and sea animals use to find the distance of their food?
Echolocation.
500
An ecosystem includes decomposers. Decomposers needs BOTH plants and animals. Explain why they both need plants and animals.
Decomposers break down matter into the soil for plants to get nutrients. Animals then eat the plants to get their energy. This shows how they BOTH need decomposers.
500
What is the relationship between pitch and frequency?
As the frequency increases, the pitch also increases.
500
What does interdependent mean?
dependent on another for its survival
500
What structure of the eye is responsible for people for seeing colors, black, and white?
The rods and cones.