Scientific Method
Biomes & Symbiosis
Ecology Vocab
Energy & Food Web
Succession & Growth
100

A proposed, testable, explanation for an observation

Hypothesis

100

Hot and dry during the day and cool at night

Desert

100

A physical area where a species lives

Habitat

100

An organism that creates it's own food

Producer

100

Causing the population to grow

Exponential 

200

The factor in an experiment that is changed or controlled by the researcher 

Independent Variable
200

Prairie and cold winters and warm, rainy summers

Grassland

200

A role that species in the ecosystem

Niche

200

An organism that directly eats producers for energy

Primary Consumer

200

Slows or stops growing after a period of exponential growth

Logisitic

300

Variable that is measured and changed based on the independent variable

Dependent Variable

300

High rainfall, humid and poor soil

Rainforest

300

Group of organism of species found in an area

Population

300

An organism that eats primary consumers

Secondary Consumers

300

What's the human population density in Quahog

Population: 125,000,000 people

Land Area: 145,937 miles

856.53 people per square mile


400

What is the first step of Scientific Method

Identify the problem

400

One organism benefits, one is harmed

Parasitism

400

An interacting group of various species

Community

400

An organism that eats secondary consumers

Tertiary Consumer

400

Life forms on the surface for the first time, bare rock

Primary Succession

500

What is the seventh step of the Scientific Method

Draw conclusion

500

One organism benefits, one isn't affected

Commensalism

500

Community of organism and it's not living environment

Population

500

Which of the three consumers would you expect to see the least

Tertiary Consumer

500

Life is not forming for the first time, begins on soil

Secondary Succession