Scientific Method
What do you call information gathered using your senses?
What is an observation?
What term describes a living part of an ecosystem?
What is biotic?
What is the process by which populations change over generations?
What is evolution?
What process causes organisms with helpful traits to survive and reproduce more successfully?
What is natural selection?
What animal is the largest animal on Earth?
What is a blue whale?
What is a testable explanation for an observation called?
What is a hypothesis?
What term describes a nonliving part of an ecosystem, such as sunlight, water, or temperature?
What is abiotic?
What do we call differences between individuals within the same species?
What is variation?
A population of rabbits contains brown and white rabbits. Snow makes the white rabbits harder for predators to see. Which rabbits are more likely to survive?
What are the white rabbits?
who does broken arrow football play this Friday?
Westmoore
In an experiment, what variable does the scientist purposely change?
What is the independent variable?
A new species is introduced into an ecosystem and begins taking food and habitat away from native species. What is this species called?
What is an invasive species?
What type of structure has a similar underlying anatomy because of common ancestry?
What is a homologous structure?
What must exist within a population for natural selection to occur?
What is variation?
how tall is coach wood in inches? (i am 6'5)
77 inches tall
What variable is measured during an experiment?
What is the dependent variable?
A forest contains deer, rabbits, trees, insects, and birds. What level of organization includes all the different populations living together?
What is a community?
What type of structure performs a similar function but has a different underlying structure?
What is an analogous structure?
A bird builds its nest in a tree. The bird gets a place to live, but the tree is not helped or harmed. What type of relationship is this?
What is commensalism?
What is the fastest land animal?
What is a cheetah?
A scientist wants to know if fertilizer makes plants grow taller. She gives different amounts of fertilizer to several groups of plants and measures their height. What is the independent variable?
What is the amount of fertilizer?
A pond contains fish, frogs, plants, insects, water, sunlight, and rocks. What level of organization includes both the living and nonliving parts?
What is an ecosystem?
What evidence provides a record of organisms that lived in the past and helps scientists understand how life has changed?
What is the fossil record?
Two deer fight over the same limited food source. What type of relationship is this?
What is competition?
what is the last school day of the fall semester
December 18th