What you think will happen, stated in an if...then...format.
What is a hypothesis?
100
What is the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction?
Asexual only require one adult organism, while sexual requires two. Offspring of asexual reproduction have identical genetic, offspring of sexual reproduction have variations in their genes
100
Groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.
What is a population?
100
The smallest, basic unit of matter.
What is the atom?
100
The process of water seeping into the ground.
What is infiltration?
200
The thing the experimenter measures in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable.
200
The process by which organisms maintain a constant internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
200
A group of ecosystems that have the same climate and similar dominant communities.
What is a biome?
200
What are the subatomic particles that make up atoms?
Neutrons, protons, and electrons.
200
What type of organism is always at the bottom of the food chain/web/pyramid?
Producers -or- Autotrophs.
300
The thing you compare results to, to see if the independent variable is making any difference
What is the control?
300
The process of organisms charging over time
What is evolution?
300
The technique used when the thing of interest is impossible to study in real life because they are too complicated, too large, or take too long.
What is modeling?
300
What is the difference between ionic and covalent bonds?
Ionic bonds involve the taking and giving of electrons. Covalent bonds involve the sharing of electrons.
300
A person ate beef. That cow had eaten grass. The grass is the bottom of the food chain. What percentage of energy does the person get?
1%
400
This is sometimes called the manipulated variable.
What is the independent variable?
400
The smallest units of an organism that can be considered alive.
What is the cell?
400
The mass of all living things in a certain trophic level.
What is biomass?
400
The word meaning water "sticks" to itself.
What is cohesion?
400
A way that autotrophs get energy besides photosynthesis.
What is chemosynthesis?
500
The part of a microscope that controls the amount of light that comes through.
What is the diaphragm?
500
List six of the eight characteristics of living things.
1) made up of cells
2) reproduce
3) based on a universal genetic code
4) grow and develop
5) obtain and use materials and energy
6) respond to their environment
7) maintain a stable internal environment
8) change over time
500
What is the usable form of nitrogen that organisms can use?
Ammonia -or- NH3.
500
The macro-molecule that is the main source of energy for most organisms.
What are carbohydrates?
500
List two ways that carbon gets released into the atmosphere.
Respiration, human activity (burning of fossil fuels), volcanic activity, from the ocean surface.