Nature of Science
The word that means fake science
Psuedoscience
The type of symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
Mutualistic
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
Ecosystem
What word means for organisms to EXIT or Leave an ecosystem?
Emigration
What does the prefix Carn- mean?
Flesh/Meat
What is the name of the variable that is varied or manipulated by the researcher?
Independent Variable
The term stems from the Latin words omnis, meaning “all or everything. Its an organism that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
Pioneer
Pattern of spacing among individuals
Dispersion
Nonliving components of an environment
Abiotic
An idea that proposes a tentative explanation about a phenomenon or a narrow set of phenomena observed in the natural world. You create this at the beginning of an experiment and it is written as a cause/effect relationship.
Hypothesis
The two processes that move water from the ground to the atmosphere
Evaporation and Transpiration
This type of succession starts with Bare rock
Primary Succession
If an ecosystem is running low on resources and has very little room to house any more organisms, this ecosystem is at its what? (Its two words)
Carrying Capacity
What does the Suffix -Troph mean?
Feed/Nourishment
A well-supported explanation of a natural phenomenon that is based on many facts and hypothese.
Think "LDTE"
Theory
What type of symbiotic relationship is it: Cattle egrets and cattle, where the egrets eat insects disturbed by the grazing cattle, benefiting from the cattle's movement without harming them in any way; the cattle are neither helped nor harmed by the egrets' presence
Commensalism
The part of the lake/ocean that has very little/no light
Aphotic Zone
Limiting factor that depends on population size
(3 Words)
Density Dependent Factor
What are the three different types of spacing of populations?
Uniform, Random and Cluster
What is the process by which biological systems maintain a state of balance and stability in response to internal and external changes?
Example: Sweating when playing sports
Homeostasis
List the water cycle steps from where it is stored to how to gets back to the ocean.
Evaporation/Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation, Surface Runoff/Groundwater Flow
The shallow, sloped area of a lake, river, or sea that's close to the shore and has a lot of sunlight.
Littoral zone
Natural Disasters and Climate are examples of what limiting factor?
Density Independent Factors
This word is another name for Earth and translates to "Life circle"
Biosphere