FINAL QUESTION
Science Communication
Interconnectedness
Methods
Marvelous Melange
100

The single most important trait of a scientist.

What is a heart beat?

200
A term used to describe the quality of using more words than needed to express an idea. In academic writing, this quality can undercut the power of your message.

What is 'verbosity'?

200

This term, which comes from the Greek word for nourishment, refers to anything relating to feeding or nutrition.

What is 'trophic.'

200

DAILY DOUBLE

A way to find predictable patterns in nature.

What is extrapolating observations to new but similar situations OR identifying the mechanism of the pattern?

200
For natural selection to occur, a given trait must be [THIS].  

What is heritable?

300

This section of a research paper is where the author can have a bit of style as they compare their results to those of other studies, and discuss different  biological explanations for what they found and what they didn't.

What is the discussion section?

300

These representations of feeding relationships in a community are not woven by spiders.

What are food webs?

300

This type of curve illustrates the proportional survival of a population over time. 

What is a survival curve?

300

In his study on urban birds, guest lecturer Mike Vermuelen found the lowest bird diversity in this part of Portland.

What is the pearl district? (Also accepted: downtown)

400

In oral presentations of your work, each slide should have just one what?

What is a main idea?

400

The effect of including parasites in food webs was reduced when not considering this blood feeding insect as a parasite.



What are mosquitoes?

400

It is important that a research question be [this], in order to design an experiment around it.

What is actionable?

400

Our understanding of nature is limited by this.

What is our perception?

500

In this type of scientific paper, published studies and other scholarly articles on a topic are synthesized, and knowledge gaps are identified.

What is a literature review?

500

Name two processes other than foodwebs that connect living things in a given environment.


What are waste production, environmental modification, chemical cycling, resource, energy, and water production and use.

500

The main limitation of observational experiments.

What is their ability to establish causality?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!! Fill in the blank:

An academic field only advances if you [      ] what you've found.

What is communicate?