General Science
The study of living things
What is Biology
controlled burning
determined by climate (Precipitation and temperature)
Biome
any living thing
organism
Fuel burning vehicles
Using the senses to collect data
What is an Observation?
1. organisms that produce their own food are called
2. organisms that consume their food are called
1. Producer
2. Consumer
Temperate
A group of animals that can reproduce
Species
Causes algal blooms and eutrophication
Excess nitrogen and phosphorus
the chance or likelihood that something will happen
What is probability?
1. type of consumer that eats plants
2. type of consumer that eats meat
3. type of consumer that eats plants and meat
4. type of consumer that eats decaying material
1. herbivore
2. Carnivore
3. omnivore
4. detritivore
the difference between marshes and estuaries
Estuaries have Brackish water
Marshes are freshwater wetlands
Members of the same species that live in the same area
Population
Which current passes by Virginia moving up and bringing warm water
The gulf stream
Collection and classification of data in the form of numbers
What is statistics
Largest ecosystem in the world
The sea
Characteristics of Chaparral
small shrubs and low-lying plants
The place where an organism lives
Habitat
the first organisms to occupy an area
Pioneer species
The study of interactions between living things and their environment
Ecology
Plants
What type of climate is stuarts draft?
Temperate deciduous forest
Adaptation
What percent of solar energy is absorbed by the earths surface?
50%