Ecology - JC Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
any spatial or organizational unit composed of a living and nonliving component where in there is a transfer of materials between the two | ecosystem |
what are the five groups of living things? | plants, animals, fungi, protista, and moafran |
what are examples of nonliving things? | H2O, O2, N2, & CO2 |
What are all animal life? | consumers (heterotroph) |
what do plants do? | take light and energy and make it into glucose |
what are plants? | producers |
any spatial or organizational unit composed of a living and nonliving component where in there is a transfer of materials between the two | ecosystem |
to be able to perpetuate, to keept going | sustainable |
what are the four components of sustainability? | maintains biodiversity, energy comes from the sun, matter is recycled, consumer populations are kept in check so that overgrazing doesn't occur |
are human ecosystems sustainable? | no |
when nature decides what breeds with what | natural selection |
to breed a creature with certain characteristics | human selection |
lead to change from exposure from chemicals | genetic mutation |
the three things that a creature will do when threatened with change | adapt, migrate, perish |
that area where life exists; 10 miles thick; no living thing can live outside of it | biosphere |
a systematic approach to answering questions or solving problems | scientific method |
body of knowledge that explains natural phenomenon and a method for obtaining that knowledge | science |
any living thing | organism |
study of organisms and the environment | ecology |
scientists who study the interactions that occur within the biosphere | ecologists |
occurs between members of the same species | intraspecies interactions |
occurs between members of different species | interspecies interactions |
the study of human interactions with the environment | environmental science |
information gathered directly through the senses, measurements, or experiments | observation |
observations that describe something | qualitative data |
obtained through direct measurements | quantitative data |
the study of living organisms in their natural setting | fieldwork |
uses a representative portion of a population to determine a single characteristic of the entire population | sampling |
proposed solution to the problem or answer to the question | hypothesis |
one way to test a hypothesis | experimentation |
a logical explanation based on the data gathered and verified by many others scientists | theory |
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