Characteristics of Life
The thing that all living things are made up of, the basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
Multiple different populations living in an area.
What is a community?
The two places where you should hold the microscope when moving it.
What are the arm and the base?
A type of pollution that can be identified as coming from one place in particular.
What is point-source pollution?
The scientist who invented the incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A caterpillar turning into a butterfly is an example of this.
What is growth and development?
The role that an organism or species fills in a certain ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Multiplying the eyepiece magnification by the objective lens magnification gives you this value.
What is total magnification?
A conservation practice that involves planting plants on the tops of buildings.
What are green roofs?
The sport that Mr. McCarthy played in college.
What is Quadball?
A bear walking around with cubs is an example of this characteristic of life.
What is reproduction?
This is how much energy is lost at each step in the food chain.
What is 90%?
The setting you should always start looking at your sample with.
What is low power (4x objective lens)?
The process of turning up soil for use for farming. It aerates the soil, but makes it more easily picked up by flowing water.
What is tilling?
The third-most-voted name of our class pet.
What is Dino?
The reason(s) a virus is not considered alive.
What are:
1. It does not reproduce on its own
2. It does not grow/develop
3. It is not made of cells
Important elements and chemicals that are cycled through the ecosystem by decomposers.
What are nutrients?
The three things that microscope drawings must have to receive full credit.
What are title, total magnification, and lens magnification?
A smaller river that flows into a larger one.
What is a tributary?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Squinting your eyes after walking out into bright sunlight is an example of this.
What is a response?
The process by which deep-sea organisms get energy that is stored in chemical bonds without using the sun.
What is chemosynthesis?
The dial below the microscope stage that changes the amount of light allowed through.
What is the diaphragm?
The point at which two or more rivers come together to form a larger river.
What is a confluence?
This reptilian ambush predator can survive on only 500-600 calories a year.
What is a rattlesnake?