Scientific Method
What is the first step in the Scientific Method?
Make Observations
What are the 2 types of measuring systems?
Imperial and Metric
What shows the direction of energy flow for one set of organisms?
Food Chains
Evaporation
What biome has a large number of trees?
Forest Biomes
What is written in an "If then" format?
Hypothesis
What tools are used to measure mass?
Triple Beam Balance or Scale
How is the complexity of the food web determined?
Biodiversity
What is the draining away of water from the surface of an area of land, building, structure, etc.
Runoff
What biome has a large open area of grass and trees are infrequent
Grasslands
What are the 2 types of data you may evaluate?
Qualitative and Quantitative
What is the correct abbreviation for Decameter?
Dm
What is the purpose of a food chain, web, and pyramid?
Picture representations of ecosystem relationships
Destruction to the oceanic environments and their food webs
In the tundra biome what are the 3 main types?
Alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic
Are Hypotheses ever proven?
No
Compare using <, >, or =.
63cm ___ 6m
<
In a food web, higher tier equals what?
Higher trophic level
What is Condensation the opposite of?
Evaporation
The Boreal forests is also known as what?
Taiga
How do scientists typically share their information they find during these steps?
In forms of graphs, tables, and charts
What are the 2 names of the microscopes we talked about?
Scanning Electron Microscopes and Compound Light Microscopes
Only 10% of the total energy available is retained moving up trophic levels, where is the rest lost to?
Heat and Metabolism
What is it called when the excess water is secreted from the stomata in plants and evaporates due to sunlight heat
Transpiration
Estuaries, Mangrove swamps, and salt marshes are apart of what water biome?
Brackish Water Biome