Chp 1. Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Graphing
Pop. & Res. Fun Facts
Riddles
100
a group of the same type of organisms living in the same area?
What is population
100
Within a _______ organisms are always being born and dying.
What is population?
100
This graph is _______.
What is stable
100
75% of the world is covered in ..
What is water
100
What is more useful when it is broken?
What is an egg
200
All the living and non-living things interacting in a particular area.
What is ecosystem?
200
If the number of births and deaths in a given time are _____, then the population size will be stable.
What is equal?
200
This graph is __________.
What is increasing?
200
All living things depend on .....
What is other living things?
200
What has cities, but no houses. Mountains, but no trees. Water, but no fish.
What is a map
300
Stability
What is stays mostly the same over time
300
If there are more births than deaths in a given time,, then the size of the population will ______.
What is increase?
300
This graph is ________.
What is decreasing
300
The largest ecosystem in the world is the _______.
What is ocean?
300
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
what is a deck of cards
400
the ability to make things move or change
what is energy
400
If there are fewer births than deaths, then the size of the population will _________.
What is decrease?
400
If a graph shows more births than deaths, we can conclude that the population is doing this.
What is increasing?
400
What percent of water on Earth is useable and available freshwater?
- 1%
- 3%
- 0.5%
-7 %
What is 0.5%?
400
What has keys, but no locks. Space but no rooms. You can enter, but you can’t go outside.
What is a keyboard
500
Reproduction
What is the process of creating offspring
500
A system can be ______ even as things are being added to and removed from it. If the amounts being added and being removed are not equal, then the system will not change.
What is stable?
500
Since it is impossible to count every single organism in a population, ecologists use this method to collect and study population growth and create graphs.
What is samples?
500
More than half of all life on Earth lives _________.
- ocean
- forest
- desert
- underground
What is underground?
500
What's lighter than a feather but impossible to hold for much more than a minute?
What is your breath?