Vocabulary 1
The definition of biology.
What is the study of living things?
The definition of biotic.
What is a living factor of an ecosystem?
Interpret what food provides to organisms.
What are energy and building materials that provide the ability to build back broken tissue in one's body?
Interpret what could cause a population to change.
What do changes in food, environment, reproduction, or due to other organisms affect?
The definition of hydroponics
What is the process of growing plants without soil?
The definition of abiotic.
What is a non-living component that effects the ecosystem?
List examples of biotic and abiotic factors in a Great Lakes environment.
Biotic- sea lamprey, bacteria, plants, humans, etc.
Abiotic- rocks, climate, sunlight, soil, water, minerals, etc.
Explain how the Sea Lamprey entered the Great Lakes.
How did Sea Lamprey enter the Great Lakes through canals made by humans and while being attached to ships?
The meaning of carbohydrates.
What are simple or complex sugars that are found in bread, rice, potatoes, and pasta that provide the body with energy?
The definition of micronutrients.
What are substances required by the body in very small amounts, such as vitamins and minerals?
Reenact how a sea lamprey swims and list what type of swimmer they are.
What is S-swimmer? (and people who look weird while doing this lol)
Explain the abiotic factors that affect the trout population.
What is climate, depth of water, and pollutants?
The definition of simple sugars.
What sugars are found in honey, fruits, candy, and some vegetables that provide the body with energy?
The meaning of ecology.
What is the study of interactions of organisms with other organisms and the physical environment? (Word means “study of house”)
Debate the main factor why the trout population has significantly decreased. (Each partner has to have a different answer).
The main factor of the trout population decreasing is the sea lamprey but other factors like fisherman and polluntants still play a part.
Invent solutions to get rid of the sea lamprey.
Fishermen can fish them to get rid of them, forcing them to go back to their native environment, etc.
(answers can vary)
The definition of a biome.
What is an environment that is a large occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat?
The definition of macronutrients.
What is a substance that is required in relatively large amounts by living organisms for normal growth and development?
Build a realistic food web in the Great Lakes environment.
Here is the link to a Great Lakes food web from the textbook.
Choose which ecologic term best describes where humans fit. Individual, population, community, ecosystem, biome, or biosphere?
Which population fits in a community out of all the ecologic terms?