Vocab
The study of life. Greek words meaning life (Bio) and study (logos)
What is biology?
The variable controlled by you.
What is an independant variable?
A smaller, local area within the biosphere where living and non-living things interact.
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that eat only meat
What is a carnivore?
The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
What are cells?
Anything that has or once had all of the characteristics of life
The variables kept unchanged
Controll/constant
One organism benefits; the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
they break down organic compounds and make nutrients available
What is a decomposer?
Anything that is part of an organism’s internal or external environments and that causes a reaction by the organism
What is stimulus?
Is a technique used in the construction and testing of a scientifi theory.
What is a hypothesis?
Can be observed but not measured (colors, appearance, smells)
What is qualative data?
consists of land, oceans, air, and all living things
What does the biosphere include?
Also called heterotrophs, an organism that gets it's energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
Regulation of an organism’s internal conditions to maintain life
What is homeostasis?
The technique used in the construction and testing of a scientific hypothesis.
What is the scientific method?
A decimal based system for measurement.
What is the metric system?
Biotic and abiotic components.
What are the 2 components of the biosphere?
Occurs when more than one organism uses a resource at the same time as another one
An inherited characteristic that results from change to a species over time.
What is an adaptation?
logical interpretation of an observation based on prior knowledge
What is an inference?
1.Question
2.Hypothesis
3.Experiment
4.Observe
5.Analysis
6.Conclusion
What are the 6 steps of the scientific method?
1. Biosphere
2. Biome
3. Ecosystem
4. Biological Community
5. Population
6. Organism
What are the levels of organization?
They eat fragments of dead matter in an ecosystem
Made of one or more cells, Responds to stimuli, Displays organization, Requires energy, Grows and develops, Maintains homeostasis, Reproduces, Has adaptations that evolve over time
What are the eight characteristics of life?