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Living Things
Scientific Method
Ecological Succession
Photosynthesis
Nutrient Cycles
100
A position or role taken by a kind of organism within an ecosystem.
What is niche?
100
Determining the relative properties/characteristics of something, without assigning numerical values.
What is qualitative?
100
I break down rocks.
What is a lichen?
100
It's weightless, but if you put it into a barrel, the barrel will become lighter.
What is light?
100
The nutrient commonly found in urine.
What is nitrogen?
200
List three characteristics of a living thing.
What is adapt, responds, metabolism, complex, grows, reproduces, etc.?
200
A test in which the final result is expressed as a specific number
What is quantitative?
200
I am the first species to appear in primary succession.
What is pioneer species?
200
The products of photosynthesis.
What is glucose and oxygen?
200
The nutrient commonly found in protein.
What is nitrogen?
300
Symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
What is mutualism?
300
A tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified.
What is a hypothesis?
300
All the seeds left in the soil after a fire are called this.
What is a seed bank?
300
The amount of energy I receive from a plant as a tertiary consumer.
What is 0.1%?
300
Carbon is obtained by heterotrophs in this manner.
What is eating?
400
An association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
400
A well-proven explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain certain things.
What is a theory?
400
Beech-maple is the climax community in this state.
What is Michigan?
400
The products of cellular respiration.
What is water and carbon dioxide?
400
Carbon is obtained by autotrophs from this molecule.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
A coyote eats a cat and a cat eats a mouse and a mouse eats the grass. The coyote is in this trophic level.
What is 4th trophic level?
500
The item being measured or observed in the experiment.
What is a variable?
500
Three ways humans interfere with succession.
What is logging, mining, agriculture, etc.?
500
The complete chemical equation for cellular respiration.
What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6H2O + 6CO2?
500
Nitrogen in the __________ is made available to plants by __________ and ___________. Plants are consumed by animals and eventually the nitrogen is returned to the soil when the animal ___________ or ____________. __________ are responsible for returning the nitrogen to the atmosphere.
What is atmosphere, lightning, nitrogen fixing bacteria, excretes or dies, and decomposers?