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Trophic Levels
100
This humid biome is located between the Tropics and along the equator and is home to the most numerous types of plants and animals.
What is a tropical rain forest?
100

Animals that consume other animals.

What is a predation?

100

This an event that has rapid/dramatic impacts on environmental conditions.

What is a disturbance?

100

This is an educated guess made about an observation or question.

What is a hypothesis? 

100

These are organisms that photosynthesize.

What are primary producers?

200
This biome is located in the far north but does not get much snow.
What is tundra?
200

This is an insect that parasitizes another insect.

What is a parasitoid? 

200

This is a disturbance dramatically alters, but does not destroy, all local organisms.

What is secondary succession?


200

This is a requirement of scientific studies that allows future scientists to perform the same study and get the same results.

What is repeatability?

200
When a rabbit eats a plant, what level consumer is it?
What is a primary consumer?
300

The two factors that determine a biome.

What are temperature and precipitation (moisture)?

300

The relationship between manta rays and remoras is an example of this. 

What is mutualism?

300

This is the group of organisms that first re-colonize after a primary disturbance.

What is a pioneer species?

300

This type of experiment alters variables to change behaviors or outcomes based on a certain hypothesis.

What is a manipulative experiment?

300

Sea otters and wolves are examples of this. 

What are keystone species?

400
This biome is found in the middle latitudes and is home to the largest animals on Earth.
What is grassland or savannah?
400

Mosquitos suck blood from other animals to gain food and leave an itchy bite. This is an example of what type of interaction? 

What is parasitism?

400

This is the largest restoration project in the country.

What is the Florida Everglades Restoration Project?

400

If I am doing research on the effects of nicotine on people, yet I get funding from a big cigarette company, I must do this when I publish. 

What is declaring conflict of interest?

400

These are organisms that break down nonliving organic matter into soil components. 

What are decomposers?

500
This biome has much diversity and trees that lose their leaves in winter.
What is deciduous forest?
500

This is a battle for resources amongst one species.

What is intraspecific competition?

500

This is a place where captive breeding programs are attempted. 

What is a zoo?

500

Before a scientific paper is published, it must go through this process.

What is peer review? 

500

Urchins eat kelp, and sea otters eat urchins. When sea otter populations drop, __________ populations will boom. 

What are urchins?