Vocabulary
Aquariums & Terrariums
Food Webs
Miscellaneous
Insects
100
This is the meaning of biotic.
What is any living organism or a product of a living organism?
100
These are the three plants growing in our terrariums.
What are rye, wheat, and alfalfa?
100
This is always at the bottom of every food chain.
What is the sun?
100
This is how you can tell a male milkweed bug from a female milkweed bug.
What is the male has two lines; the female has one line and then two dots?
100
This is the official state insect for Oregon.
What is the Swallowtail Butterfly?
200
This is the job of a decomposer.
What is to break down organisms that are dead so their materials can be used again?
200
These are three biotic things found in an aquarium.
What are fish, snails, gammarus, and plants?
200
These are the three categories of organisms found in a food web.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
200
These are the three parts of an insect's body.
What are the head, abdomen, and thorax?
200
This is how fast a deer bot fly can move.
What is 90 mph?
300
This is how a milkweed bug eats.
What is it uses its tubelike beak to suck the oil from sunflower seeds or milkweed plants?
300
These are five organisms found in our terrariums.
What are isopods, worms, rye, wheat, and alfalfa plants?
300
A food chain is different from a food web because . . .
What is a food chain links organisms up in one straight line. A food web has many connections linking organisms in many ways.
300
This is the fastest running insect.
What is a cockroach?
300
Butterflies and moths are in this group or class.
What is lepidoptera?
400
This is the difference between biotic and abiotic.
What is biotic means living organisms and abiotic means non-living organisms?
400
Terrestrial means this.
What is to live on the land?
400
This is what an ecosystem is>
What is an interacting system of living organisms and nonliving factors in a specific area?
400
A person who studies diseases such as viruses is called this.
What is a virologist?
400
This is approximately how many mosquito bites it would take to drain all the blood from a adult human.
What is 1,200,000?
500
This is how producers and consumers are different.
What is producers make the food and consumers eat the food?
500
These are ways aquariums and terrariums are alike and different.
What is aquariums have organisms that live in water and terrarims have organisms that live on land? Both need water and sunlight.
500
These are the two algeas that are found in Mono Lake.
What are Benthic and Planktonic Algae?
500
This is the percentage of fresh water available in the world.
What is less than 1%?
500
This is the function of the ovipositior.
What is to lay eggs?