The Scientific Method
The Energy Pyramid
Ecosystems
Vocabulary
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The first step in the scientific method.

What is observation?

100

The scientific term that applies to an organism that makes its own food.

What is an autotroph?

100

It helps promote the stability of any ecosystem.

What is biodiversity?

100

To make out or to be able to understand something complex.

 The description of a meaningful event.

What is to decipher?


What is momentous?

100

The room number of the computer lab

What is C410?

200

To make a prediction or create and if, then sentence.

What is a hypothesis?

200

How rabbits are catagorized in the food pyramid.

What is an herbivore?

What is a primary consumer?

200

The Atlantic Ocean is an example of this kind of ecosystem

What is a marine ecosystem?

200

to escape from someone or to have something escape your detection


isolated, abandoned, empty, far from others

What is elude?



What is desolate?

200

A student originally from Algeria.

A student originally from Nepal.

Who is Ahmed?

Who is Mingma?

300
Every experiment should have one.

What is a control group?

300

The three elements required for photosynthesis

What are water, CO2, and the sun's rays?

300

Two abiotic factors in a jungle ecosystem

What is water?

What is air?

What is soil?

What is air temperature?

What are rocks?

300

determined, or continuous- as in a condition.


fills with energy, and inspiration

What is persistent?


What is invigorate or invigorating?

300

The name of the online history game we play putting events in order.

The name of the online game where we have to come up with words using the letters in the circles.

What is Flashback?


What is the Spelling Bee?

400

The step after collecting the data from the experiment.

What is analyzing the data?

400
Four activities which cause organisms to use energy.

What are movement, eating, digestion, growth, reproduction, hunting, and excretion?



400

Two reasons why it is important that decomposers break down dead plants and animals.

What is returning nutrients to the soil?

What is infectious disease control?

What is clearing up space in an ecosystem

400

to discover the cause of something or to accurately locate the time or position of something


see through, clear, or honest

What is to pinpoint?



What is transparent?

400

The name of the play many of our students attended this past Friday.

What is "Sorry, Wrong Number?"

500

The name of the factor being measured at the end of the experiment. 

What is the dependent variable?

500

Why the top of the pyramid is so small compared to the base.

What is the availability of energy decreases as you go towards the top of the pyramid because much of it is used up by various organisms?

500

The number of organisms in a particular species that an ecosystem can provide for.

What is carrying capacity?

500

to question the veracity of something


to stop, or to stop doing something

What is skeptical?


What is to cease?

500

The name of the Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in the schools.

What is Brown v. Board