Episode 3
Biology is about the study of______________________.
life
Levels of Organization:
_____________ are the basic building blocks of life
Cells
__________ Factor - living things with an ecosystem
Biotic
_____________ _____________ - organisms that survived and grew back fastest will repopulate the area?
Ecological Succession
__________ ____________ is the ability to analyze and understand patterns in their observations.
Data Literacy
When groups of organs work together they make up systems called _______________ ______________________.
organ systems
___________ factor - non living things with an ecosystem
Abiotic
__________ _______________ - on going long term relationships that are categorized by how the relationship affects each species involved.
Interspecific interactions
Biologists record information on _________________ in the field and on ___________ databases.
notebooks and online
A ________________ are organisms of the same group or species that live in a specific area.
population
The food chain consists of:
Producers - Consumers (_________ _________, and ______________) - Decomposers
Primary, secondary, and Tertiary (apex)
___________ ______________ - species figure out how to alleviate the mutually competitive relationship.
Resource partitioning
Mice and rats are examples of ______________ organisms.
model
_______________________ is an interacting group of various species in a shared/ common location.
Community
If an animal does not have a natural predator they are also called _______ predators
apex
__________ ______________ - one species has an advantage over another.
Competitive Exclusion
Model organisms need to be easy to _____________, easy to ______________, and _________________________ in large numbers.
raise, keep, and manageable
__________________ is the collective sum of all living ecosystems.
Biosphere
What did scientists find that were killing the elephants in Botswana?
Cyanobacteria
What are examples of keystone species?
Elephants, bees, dogs, lions, bears.