Safe and Sound
The best way to keep hair longer than shoulder length safe in the lab is to do what?
What is to tie is back?
The food of almost every animal can be traced back to this.
What is a plant?
A ranking on a food web.
What is a trophic level?
A community of interacting organisms and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network.
What is a system?
Protection of the eyes can be maximized when wearing this lab accessory.
What are safety glasses?
A "who eats whom" diagram.
What is a food web?
This type of species makes up the first trophic level.
What is a producer?
This change to an ecosystem can cause damage.
Hint: food webs
What is a new species?
This is an observable fact.
This tells you how to do your assignment safely. This should always be followed.
What are the directions from the teacher?
Algae, phytoplankton, and some bacteria are examples of this.
What is a producer?
This makes up the last trophic level of the food web.
What is a decomposer?
This cycles between the air and soil and among plants, animals, and microbes as these organisms live and die.
What is matter?
It is okay to have food or drink in the lab at THIS time.
When is never?
This could lead to consumption of dangerous chemicals of the lab.
What is eating food and/or tasting chemicals?
Organisms, such as fungi and bacteria, that break down dead organisms for energy.
What are decomposers?
This determines where an animal lives.
What is an environment that supports their eating habits?
The food chain is a transfer of this from one species to another.
What is energy?
Plants need these two things the most to grow.
What is water and air?
The last thing you do before you leave the lab.
This process recycles some energy back to the soil.
What is decomposition?
A vulture that eats a dead animal is called this.
What is a detritivore?
TWO PART QUESTION! Must get both answers correct for the points.
1. The species that create their own food are this.
2. The species that eats other things are this.
What are:
1. Producers
2. Consumers
The energy released from food was once energy from the sun that was captured by this.
What are plants?