Characteristics of Living Things
Which one is not like the other?
Variables
Ecosystem Organization
Questions From the Future
100

A human female has about 28 trillion cells. 

What is cells/ organization? 

100

frog, snake, water, bird, cow

What is water?

100

This is the axis where you would plot the DV on a graph.

What is the Y axis? 

100

The least complex level of organization. 

What is an organism? 

100

This type of  animal hunts and kills other animals for food. 

What is a predator?

200

A tadpole turns into a frog.

What is growth? 

200

wood, mushroom, bacteria, soil, cat

What is soil? 

200

Identify the IV: A student wanted to test the effects of bandaid brand bandages on the rate at which a cut heals. 

What is the band-aid brand bandage?

200

Many different species living together. 

What is a community?

200

This is what bees, butterflies, beetles and hummingbirds do for the environment. 

What is pollinate?

300

When you touch something hot, your hand moves away without you having to think about it.

What is react to stimuli?

300

Taiga, Tundra, Tropical Rain Forest

What is the tropical rain forest?

300

Identify the DV: A study found that rabbits have more babies when fed dog food rather than carrots. 

What is how many babies the rabbits produce. 

300
Identify the level of organization: You see a bunch of deer out on the road.

What is a population?

300

This is what you call organisms that break down organisms.

What are decomposers?

400

A mushroom decomposes a dead fox in the forest.

What is metabolism/ energy use?

400

Community, Ecosystem, Population, Organism

What is ecosystem?

400

A farmer wanted to know if feeding his cows corn would help them grow more muscle than their normal diet of grass. He gave all his cows corn from birth to see if they would make more muscle. What is the error in his experiment? 

What is there is no control group? 

400

Two methods used to measure the size of a population. 

What is the sample method and the mark and recapture method?

400

This is what you call an organism that eats organisms that another organism hunted and killed.

What is a scavenger? 

500

When you have too much sugar in your blood, your body releases insulin to lower your blood glucose levels. 

What is homeostasis?

500

Space, Food, Water, Oxygen, Minerals

What is food?

500

You are testing the effects of different brands of potting soil on how large tomatoes grow. Identify two things that should be kept constant or controlled between the groups.

What are type of tomatoes, sunlight, water, and/or time to grow.

500

Identify the method of estimating population size best used for fast moving organisms that migrate such as pigeons or deer. 

What is mark and recapture?

500

This is what you call an organism that lives off another organism. 

What is a parasite?