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general vocabs
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This science is known as the study of life
What is Biology?
100
Observation, experimentation and conclusion
What is scientific inquiry?
100
This term means an area where an organism lives
What is habitat?
100
A zone or region that can SUPPORT the life is biosphere .From high in the atmosphere to the deepest oceans.
What is biosphere?
100
This term means things are arranged in an orderly way
What is organization?
200
This term describes relationships under certain conditions in the nature
What is law?
200
set of moral principles
What is ethic?
200
This term means a relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
What is Parasitism?
200
Organisms that eat fragments of dead matter in an ecosystem, return nutrients to the soil, air, and water.
What are Detritivores?
200
Regulation of an organism ‘s internal conditions to maintain life.
What is homeostasis?
300
This is the group which stay normally in experiment
What is control group?
300
1.The one factor that can change in a controlled experiment. 2.Factor that is being tested and affects the outcome of the experiment.
What is Independent Variable?
300
This means the role or position that an organism has in its environment.
What is niche?
300
This term means large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar communities
What is biome?
300
This a factor that remains fixed during an experiment while dependent and independent variables change.
What is constant?
400
This term is how scientists gather information and answer questions
What is scientific method?
400
procedure performed in a controlled setting to test a hypothesis and collect precise data.
What is experiment?
400
This means a group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.
What is biological community?
400
Loss of energy, biomass and numbers Food energy Biomass of corn-production of food
What is pyramid effect?
400
An element is found in the protein
What is nitrogen?
500
This uses units with divisions that are powers of ten
What is metric system?
500
Survey the diversity of life Research disease Develop technologies Improve agriculture. Preserve the environment
What do biologists do?
500
This means a biological community and all of the biotic and abiotic that affect it.
What is Ecosystem?
500
69 percent of all freshwater
How many percentage of all fresh water are Ice caps and glaciers?
500
The process of capture and conversion of nitrogen into a form that is usable by plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?