Vocabulary
Critters
Environments
Miscellaneous
Experiments
100
An experiment where one and only one variable is changed.
What is a controlled experiment?
100
The most shrimp were observed in cups that had this range of salt spoons.
What is 2-4 spoons?
100
Everything that surrounds and influences an organism.
What is an environment?
100
In a food chain, the energy starts with this nonliving factor.
What is the sun?
100
The two preferences we tested isopods for were...
What are moisture and brightness?
200
The amount of salt in water is called this.
Salinity
200
Mealworms molt so they can do this.
What is grow?
200
In an ecosystems, there are ________ between the organisms and with the nonliving factors.
What are interactions?
200
Moisture level is one example of an __________ __________.
What is an environmental factor.
200
Before our bodies react to something picked up by our sense organs, it has to go through this other structure.
What is your brain?
300
A pill bug leaves a sunny, dry patch of soil to find a dark, moist patch of soil. The dark, moist soil is its ______________ _____________.
What is preferred environment?
300
This group of critters likes moist or wet soil because of their gill-like structures.
What are isopods?
300
A snake is stalking a mouse and is about to gobble it up, when a hawk swoops down, snatches the mouse, and carries it away to eat. The snake and the hawk are _______________ for the same food.
What is competing?
300
These are two possible nonliving environmental factors in a terrarium.
What are soil and water?
What are rocks and nutrients?
What are air and soil?
300
Which color "critter" would you expect to have the largest population next year?
What is beige/tan/brown?
400
Another word for the jobs that an organism's body part does.
What are functions?
400
Mildly salty water (2 spoons) for brine shrimp would be their __________ environment.
What is optimum?
400
The arrows in a food chain and food web indicate the direction in which matter and _______ move.
What is energy?
400
Your eyes and ears, a beetle's antennae, and a snail's tentacles are all examples of structures that let you ___________.
What is sense?
400
A student conducts an experiment to test the food preferences of mealworms. He concludes that mealworms prefer rice flour over wheat bran. His classmate disagrees with him, and says that he should've done this in his experiment.
What is use only one temperature for both foods?
500
Oxygen that's dissolved in water is an example of a ____________ factor in an aquarium.
What is nonliving?
500
In a freshwater aquarium, snails can act as _________ by consuming pieces of uneaten food, feces, and other debris that would otherwise collect in the water.
What are decomposers?
500
In the food web below, if the frog population suddenly increased, which organisms would be most likely to decrease right away?
What are snails and grasshoppers?
500
These are the three different types of consumers. They are classified by whether they eat producers or consumers.
What are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
500
A student studied brine shrimp hatching under a range of saltwater conditions. He organized his results on the graph you see here.What is the range of tolerance for hatching brine shrimp?
What is 3 to 7 spoons?