Ecosystems
An _______ is all the living/nonliving things in an enviornment and the many ways they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
Scientists often organize their date in a __________.
What is a table?
Science includes ______, which is where scientists ask questions about what they observe in the natural world.
What in inquiry?
True or False. If your results do not support the hypothesis, an experiment is a failure
What is False?
This causes a reaction in a living thing.
What is stimulus?
The area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem is its _________.
What is a habitat?
A _______ uses rectangular bars to compare data.
What is a bar graph?
Scientists use process _____ in science investigations.
What are skills?
These are things that change. _______ Ex: independent, dependent controlled.
What are variables?
Bats use _____ to locate prey. (The bat makes a sound and then hears the sound as it bounces of an object.)
What is echolocation?
__________ is all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is population?
_________ connects points of data on a graph with straight lines. They're often used to show patterns of data over time.
What are line graphs?
_______ lead to questions that start an investigation
What are observations?
Organized ways to answer questions and solve problems. They help scientists draw conclusions.
What are Scientific Methods?
A behavior that is inherited is called a/an _______.
What is an instinct?
Name a nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What are air, water, soil, sunlight, landforms?
Scientists base their explanations on _______.
What is evidence?
Scientists keep _______ of their observations and experiments.
What are records?
The difference between a 2-D and 3-D model.
What is 2-D length/width and 3-D length/width/height?
True or False. Lion cubs learning to hunt from watching their parents is a learned behavior.
What is True?
Name one type of ecosystem in North America.
What are Tundra, Rainforest, Desert, Grasslands, Wetlands, Forests?
List 3 important things a scientist should include when organizing their data in a table.
What are title, labels, results?
list 3 reference materials a scientist might use.
What are encyclopedia, book, journal, expert, internet, magazine?
When a scientist asks a number of questions and then analyze the answers.
What is a survey?
True or False. Migration and Hibernation are instinctive behaviors.
What is True?