Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Bill Nye
Moon Jelly
100

When something stays mostly the same over time.

What is stability?

100

What causes a population to stay the same over time?

What is the same amount of births and deaths?

100

The largest ecosystem in the world.

What is ocean/water?

100

What do moon jellies eat?

What is zooplankton? 

200

A group of the same type of organism living in the same area

What is population?

200

What causes population to increase?

What is more births than deaths

200

What do all living things depend on?

What are other living things?

200

What eats moon jellies?

What are sea turtles/birds?

300

All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area.

What is an ecosystem?

300

What causes population to decrease?

What is more deaths than births?

300

Remove a species from their natural habitat.

What is the best way to wipe out a species?

300
How did moon jellies get their name?

What is because of their round, pale bodies? 

400

A small part that is meant to show what the whole is like.

What is a sample?

400

What is happening to organisms within a population?

What is always being born and dying?

400

What must an ecosystem have in order to thrive?

What are different kinds of animals and plants?

400

How do moon jellies swim?

What is by squeezing their bodies in and out?

500

The maximum population a habitat can support.

What is carrying capacity?

500

What will happen to a system if the amount being added and removed is equal?

What is stay the same/stable?

500

what fraction of the world's species live in the ocean?

What is 2/3?

500

How are moon jellies mostly found?

What is in large groups of hundreds or millions?