Science - 1
An animal that eats a producer?
Primary Consumer
When two organisms are fighting for limited resource?
What is competition?
In an investigation these variables must be maintained in order to make the investigation viable.
Word for all living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
When a light rays bounce off a surface.
What is reflection?
What is the study of organisms and their environment called?
What is Ecology?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
The relationship between organisms where one animal benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed.
What is commensalism?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
What is ROYGBIV? or What is Red, Orange, Yellow Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
A change in direction of light rays when passing from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
What is an independent variable?
when two organisms benefit each other
mutualism
The role an organism plays in their habitat?
What is a niche?
C6H12O6
What is the chemical formula for glucose?
A process which occurs in both plants and animals that does the does the opposite of photosynthesis.
What is cellular respiration?
When light rays meet at a single point.
What is convergence?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell.
What is the chloroplast?
one organisms depend on a host organism in a way that harms the host.
parasitism
organism benefits from the host, but the host is not harmed
commensalism
Non living components in an ecosystem?
What is abiotic?
Sunlight + 6H2O + 6CO2 yields C6H12O6 + 6O2 + ATP
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the space in a cell
What is cytoplasm?
The distance from the crest of a soundwave to the next crest.
What is a wavelength?
Light rays traveling in uniform direction spread out in all different directions.
What is scattering?
Organisms whose niche is to breakdown dead organic material and return carbon into the atmosphere.
What are decomposers?
Describe 4 practices that are harmful to ecosystems?
answers will vary
Name and describe 1 biome.
forests, grasslands, deserts, tundra, aquatic
Flows thoughout an ecosystem from trophic level to trophic level.
What is energy? or What is Sunlight?
The smallest living part of an organism
What is a cell?
After something dies, the matter is consumed, broken down, and returned to the environment by these.
decomposer
What are the four trophic levels called?
What are producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers
The location in a soundwave where the particles are spreadout.
What is a rarefaction?