Ecosystem Essentials
A forest contains hundreds of different kinds of plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms. This variety is known as _____.
What is biodiversity?
Protecting and carefully managing ecosystems and natural resources is called this.
What is conservation?
Name ONE possible explanation for wildebeest migration investigated in the card sort.
What are food/nutrition, predators, OR disease?
Information scientists use to support or challenge an idea.
What is evidence?
This yellow cartoon character lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
Food, water, space, and shelter are examples of things organisms need from their environment. Scientists often refer to these as _____.
What are resources?
TRUE or FALSE: An ecosystem must contain an endangered species before people have a reason to conserve it.
What is false?
This disease appeared in our wildebeest data but did not show a strong pattern connected to survival.
What Anthrax?
Something that repeatedly appears or changes in a predictable way in data.
What is a pattern
In Stranger Things, this creepy alternate dimension exists alongside the normal world.
What is The Upside Down?
Ecosystem A has 2 species with thousands of individuals. Ecosystem B has 20 species with fewer individuals of each. Which has greater biodiversity?
What is Ecosystem B?
Two ecosystems have very different organisms and resources. Should their conservation plans necessarily be identical?
What is no?
Living wildebeest generally had more of this stored in their bone marrow than dead wildebeest.
What is fat?
If evidence does not support an explanation, scientists should do this to the explanation.
What is revise it?
This singer is behind the hits “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.”
Who is Sabrina Carpenter?
An ecosystem includes living things AND these nonliving parts of the environment.
What are abiotic factors?
In the Serengeti, different groups wanted to use the land in different ways. This shows that conservation involves different human _____.
What are needs/priorities?
Of the factors we investigated, this had the strongest relationship with whether wildebeest survived.
What is Nutritional health?
Sorting the same data in different ways helps scientists find these.
What are relationships?
In the Marvel movies, this fictional metal is used to make Captain America's shield.
What is Vibranium?
Scientists want to understand an unfamiliar ecosystem. Name TWO types of information they could collect that would help them understand how the ecosystem works.
organisms/species present, biodiversity, resources, environmental conditions, organism interactions, human uses, etc.
Protecting nature while also considering how people use and depend on it reflects this relationship.
What is nature-culture relationship?
Looking across the entire card sort, which possible explanation for migration received the strongest support?
What is food/finding food?
“Living wildebeest generally have more bone-marrow fat than dead wildebeest.” Pattern or explanation?
What is a pattern?
In The Hunger Games, Katniss comes from this numbered district.
What is District 12?