the Study of Life
Biology is
The study of Life
Give me an example of a characteristics of living organisms
Venus fly trap responding to the fly, A puppy growing and developing into an adult dogs, plants having to adapt to a lot of rain in an environment
What is ecology?
The study of relations of organisms to one another and to the physical environment
What do you ecologist do?
Observe experiment and model using a variety of tools designed methods where they work in the fields or in the laboratories
What is the ability to regrow body parts called?
Regeneration
Unicellular vs Multicellular
One has one cell whereas the other has more than one cells
Environmental Biologist are
seek to prevent the extinction of animals and plants by developing ways to protect them
The factors in the environment are divided into two large groups what are they?
Living factors or nonliving factors, abiotic or biotic factors
What’s the difference between habitat and niche?
Habitat is the place where an organism lives out it’s life niche is it’s a RAW in the community and how it interacts with the environment
Anything that takes up space and has mass provides the nutrients needed for organisms to function
Matter
Biologist have developed
vaccines and treatment for preventing and/or reducing risks. (Heart attacks, fighting obesity, COVID, chickenpox)
Explain independent and dependent variables
An independent variable is the test that factor and it might affect the outcome of the experiment the dependent variable results for them or depends on changes to the independent variable
Give me an example of a prey and predator, and then explain which is which?
Tom and Jerry. Tom is the predator Jerry is the prey
There are three types of symbiotic relationships what are they?
Mutualism commensalism parasitism
What is homeostasis?
A process where organisms maintain a stable environment
What’s the difference between scientific theory and scientific law?
Scientific theory explains why phenomena occur scientific law describes what phenomena occurred
Explain: If you make ice cubes from warm water the cubes freeze faster than if you made them from Coldwater (give me the hypothesis the independent and dependent variable as well as the control group)
Hypothesis: If you make ice cubes from warm water the cubes freeze faster than if you made then from cold water.
Independent variable: starting temperature of the water
Dependent variable: time to freeze an ice cube
Control group: starting temperature is cold water
Explain the difference between herbivores carnivores and omnivores, detritivores
Herbivores only eat plants
carnivores pray on other heterotrophs
omnivores eat both plants and animals
detritivores eat fragments of dead matter
What’s the difference between food web and food chain and give me an example of either or?
Food web is a model representing many interconnected food chains and pathways in which energy flows to a group of organisms. Food chain is a simple model that shows our energy flows through an ecosystem
example: Grass grasshopper frog snakes bird
Name Lab Equipment used in Labs (give at least 3-4)
Beakers, Funnels, Test Tube, Ring Stand, Dropper
What are the steps to scientific method?
Observation question hypothesis experiment analysis conclusion
What are some characteristics of living things? (3-4)
Movement respiration sensitivity growth reproduction excretion and nutrition
What are the levels of organisms?
Organism population community ecosystem biosphere
Explain how Clouds are formed:
When water is constantly evaporating in to the atmosphere it is also known as water vapor water vapor rises and begins to cool in the atmosphere
The phosphorus cycle moves from the short term cycle to the long-term cycle explain these cycles
In the short-term cycle, Phosphorus in phosphates in solution, is cycled from the soil to producers and then from the producers to consumers. Phosphorus moves from the short-term cycle to the long-term cycle through precipitation and sedimentation to form rocks.