Experimental Design + Scientific Method
What is the difference between an observation and an inference?
An observation is a fact identified by your senses and an inference is a conclusion you come to based on the facts.
What is the difference between abiotic and biotic?
A biotic is something that was never alive/never will be alive, and a biotic organism is something that is/was alive.
What is a population?
A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.
What is the relationship between predation and competition?
Predation is the relationship between a predator and its food. This connects to competition through two predators fighting over prey, therefore making competition.
What is Rome's nickname?
Rome's nickname is 'The Eternal City'.
What is the difference between an independent variable and a dependant variable?
An independent variable is the variable you change and have control of while a dependant variable is the variable you use to measure change.
Living things share what characteristics?
Cellular organization, similar chemicals like DNA, all use energy, all respond to surroundings, all grow and develop, all reproduce somehow.
What is a community?
A community is all the different populations that live together in an area.
What is the definition of a limiting factor?
The definition of limiting factors are the resources that are available within an ecosystem that determines how many organisms can survive.
What is Italy's longest river?
Italy's longest river is the Po, at 405 miles.
Is a controlled variable the same as an independent variable, and if so, what is the difference?
They are different. An independent variable is the variable you change while a controlled variable is the variable that stays the same throughout all the trials of an experiment.
What is homeostasis?
Homeostasis is the ability of an organism to maintain stable internal conditions.
What is the difference between a population and a community?
A population group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area, while a community is all the different populations that live together in an area.
What is carrying capacity?
Carrying capacity is the largest number of individuals of a population that an environment can support.
What place in Italy was an independent empire for 1,100 years?
Venice was an independent empire for 1,100 years, before being conquered by the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century.
What is a controlled experiment?
An experiment with only one independent variable.
Stimulus/response is the change in an organism’s external conditions that causes the organism to respond
What is the difference between an ecosystem and a biosphere?
An ecosystem is a place where abiotic and biotic factors are found, while a biosphere is the parts of the earth and the surrounding atmosphere where there is life.
What is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
Mutualism is an interaction where both organisms are benefited. Commensalism is an interaction where only one organism is benefited and the other isn't affected. Parasitism is an interaction where one organism is benefited and the other is harmed.
What is the date of Rome's founding?
Rome was founded on April 21st, 753 B.C.
What is the difference between an experimental group and a control group?
What is the difference between an autotroph and a heterotroph?
An autotroph makes it's own food, while a heterotroph can't make it's own food.
What is a niche?
A species role in its habitat to survive.
Why are ecosystems only able to support a certain number of organisms before failing?
Ecosystems have limited resources for organisms and environmental factors limit population growth. The availability of resources impacts individual organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem
The formation of the modern Italian state in 1861, with the unification of most under the peninsula under the House of _____.
The formation of the modern Italian state in 1861, with the unification of most under the peninsula under the House of Savoy.