Population Sampling
The type of sampling that is used for animals that move around.
Mark and Recapture
What is a plant called in a energy pyramid/food web?
primary producer
What term describes when two organism help each other out?
Mutualism
Define invasive species.
An organism that is not from that ecosystem and is harming it.
What popular sucker is made with a brown chewy candy in the center?
Tootsie Pop
Quadrat Sampling
Herbivores would be called this in an energy pyramid/food web.
primary consumers
Mosquitoes, tapeworms, and some types of wasps are considered...
parasitic
Which is better for a local environment? Native or invasive species?
native species
What is the name of the skeleton in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Jack Skellington
How do you find average population density?
(sum of all samples)/number of samples
Secondary consumer
In a tidepool, barnacles and mussels both need to attach to rocks. What term can describe this interaction?
How is global warming affect arctic animals?
It reduces their habitat by melting the sea ice.
Why did people start dressing up in costumes on Halloween?
To scare away evil spirits
What is one technique you can use to solve a missing variable in a ratio?
cross multiply
Where will the most amount of energy be in a energy pyramid?
bottom, primary producers/plants
In a tidepool, algae competes amongst itself for light and space. What term can describe this interaction?
Intraspecific competition.
Global warming can cause a decrease in resources for a habitat. This will increase what among its organisms?
competition
What farm animal was candy corn named after originally?
Chickens
(Candy corn was originally called "chicken feed.")
20 turtle are caught, marked, and then released back in a pond. A few days later, the researcher goes back catches 60 random turtles. Only 10 of these turtles are marked. How many turtles are estimated to be in the entire pond? R/S=M/N ( M=Marked individuals released, S=Size of second sample, R=marked individuals recaptured, N=total population size estimate)
120 turtles
(20*60) / 10=120
If the plants in an energy pyramid contain 1000 KJ, how much energy will be passed on to the primary consumers?
100 KJ
A crab gets shelter within the anemone's stinging tentacles, while the anemone remains unaffected. This is an example of what type of interaction?
commensalism
An increase in ocean temperatures will make arctic species have less...(pick a vocab word)
resilience
What is the title of the 1960 Hitchcock film that prominently features the Bates Motel and a notorious shower scene?
Psycho