Science Vocabulary
This is an educated guess made before an investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
This is what we call a living thing.
What is an organism?
Plants belong to this group because they make their own food.
What are producers?
This is when an organism, like a bird, moves from one habitat to another.
What is migration?
This relationship is close and long-term, involving two different species.
What is symbiosis?
This is the step-by-step plan for finding information and answering a question.
What is a procedure?
This is the ecosystem where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
This kind of consumer eats only producers, such as plants.
What is an herbivore?
A drought that reduces available water is an example of this kind of resource problem.
What is a limiting factor?
Give an example of a symbiotic relationship.
Clownfish and anemone. (Other correct answers are also valid)
These are facts gathered to support ideas or explanations.
What is data?
A swamp, an Arctic region, and a rainforest are all examples of this.
What are ecosystems?
Mushrooms and other fungi belong to this group because they break down dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
This is anything that makes the quality of something worse; it can affect water, air, land, light, or noise.
What is pollution?
When different species struggle for food, water, or shelter, they are experiencing this.
What is competition?
This means to look at information and think about what it shows.
What is analyze?
This term describes the variety of living things in an ecosystem and how they interact.
What is biodiversity?
What are producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers?
This is a species that enters a new place and harms its new ecosystem, for example by eating native species’ eggs or food.
What is an invasive species?
This is a measure of how much human activity affects the natural environment.
What is a human footprint?
This is the study of life.
What is biology?
What is MORE biodiversity?
According to this rule, this amount of energy transfers from one trophic level to the next.
What is the 10% rule?
This is the increase in pesticide concentration as you move up levels of a food pyramid.
What is bioaccumulation?
Farmers may use these chemicals, which can have pros and cons, to keep pests off crops.
What are pesticides?