Usually green and grows in an ecosystem. Consumers depend on this for food.
What is a producer?
100
A list of directions, step-by-step to carry out an experiment.
What is procedure?
100
Something that is passed on from generation to generation. Example: I got my blue eyes from my mother.
What is inherited?
100
To classify something means to: ?
What is to place into groups based on common traits or characteristics?
100
In a system, each piece (subsystem) works together. What is the function of a bicycle that its subsytems cannot to by themselves?
What is move forward? (A bicycle moves forward, but the seat cannot move alone) Bicyle=system Seat=subsytem
200
Which is an example of an ecosystem:
An aquarium or an ant farm?
What is an aquarium?
200
A prediction for the outcome of an experiment. Also the answer to the investigative question.
What is a hypothesis?
200
When an entire species no longer exists, this is called...
What is extinct?
200
Which one of these does not belong in this group:
Branch,
Leaf,
Pine Cone,
Flower?
What is flower. The rest are all parts of a tree.
200
Identify one subsystem of a pen?
What is spring, ink, case, cap, clip, button, etc.
300
Changes in an ecosystem affect the populations that can be supported in that environment. Which of these would be a changed to rainforest ecosystem?
- A foreign insect is introduced that kills off all of the monkeys
- Several trees fall down
What is a foreign insect being introduced.
300
This references the highest data point, the lowest data point and states whether the hypothesis was correct or incorrect. Also answers the investigative question.
What is a conclusion?
300
To sort things into groups based on like characteristics.
What is classify?
300
What title would you give to the items listed below?
Human,
Dog,
Whale,
Elephant
What is mammal?
300
Which would be an input of a system?
Pushing on a pedal of a bike or the wheel moving
What is pushing on the pedal. The wheel moving would be the output.
400
Ecosystems change. Organisms have to adapt to these changes in order to survive. If an organism does not adapt the risk becoming...
What is extinct?
400
Identify which is the changing (manipulated) variable:
Which brand of potato chip is the greasiest?
What is brand of potato chip?
400
If I say the Earth "orbits" around the Sun, what is the Earth doing?
What is moving in a path around the sun?
400
A fossil is something that remains from long in the past to show us that the environment was quite different from today. Which of the characterists do all fossils have in common?
They are all from dinosaurs, they are encased in rocks or wood, they are found in Africa, OR they are older than anyone you have ever met.
What is they are older than anyone you have ever met. :)
400
Is the sound a drum creates the input or the output of the system?
What is the output?
500
In an ecosystem we have producers, decomposers and consumers. Of these, which one breaks down organic matter? Give an example of an organism.
What is decomposers? Example is: mushroom, worm or fungi.
500
When conducting an experiment, this is the place where you record the results of your trials.
What is the data table?
500
To move from one place to another or one thing to another is to
What is transfer?
500
Put this list of items into two categories:
Carpet, Pillow, Cat, Goldfish, Desk, Car, Tulip
What is Living: Cat, Goldfish, Tulip
Non-Living: Carpet, Pillow, Car, Desk
500
How does changing an input of a system change the system? So if I move my legs faster on a swing, the swing will....