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Study Stack 1
Myers Middle School 6th Grade Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a qualitative observation? | When one/all of your five senses are used to describe something |
| What is a quantitative observation? | When a measurement or number is used to describe something |
| What is a biotic factor? | Something that is living, used to be living, or was produced by something living |
| What is an abiotic factor | Something that's nonliving |
| What is an individual? | A single organism |
| What is an organism? | Any living thing |
| What is a population? | Many individuals of the same species or type in the same place |
| What is a community? | All of the different populations in a given area at a given time |
| What is an ecosystem? | A system of interacting biotic and abiotic factors |
| What is an environment? | Everything around an organism that affects it |
| What is a habitat? | The place that supplies all of an organism's needs |
| What does aquatic mean? | Water |
| What does terrestrial mean? | Land |
| What is a feeding relationship? | When one organism eats another organism |
| What is a food chain? | A single path of predator and prey feeding relationship |
| What is a predator? | An organism that eats another |
| What is prey? | An organism that gets eaten by another |
| What is a food web? | All of the feeding relationships and food chains in an ecosystem |
| What is a producer? | An organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis |
| What is photosynthesis? | The process by which the energy from the sun(light) can create food energy (sugar) from water (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) |
| What is a consumer? | An organism that cannot produce its own food and must get food by eating another organism |
| What is a decomposer? | An organism that cannot produce its own food and gets its energy from the dead remains of organisms |
| What is a first level consumer(primary consumer)? | Also known as an herbivore, an organism that eats producers (plants) |
| What is a second-level consumer (secondary consumer)? | Also known as a carnivore, an organism that eats first level consumers |
| What is a third level consumer (tertiary consumer)? | Also known as a carnivore, an organism that eats second level consumers |
| What are trophic levels? | This refers to what part of a food chain an organism is at (ex: producer, first level consumer, second level consumer, etc) |
| What is a calorie? | A calorie is a measure of energy in food. 1 calorie is the amount of energy in food that, if converted to heat (by burning) would raise the temperature of 1 mL of water by 1 degree Celsius. |
| What is a carnivore? | An animal that eats meat (other animals) |
| What is an herbivore? | An animal that eats plants (producers) |
| What is an omivore? | An animal that eats plants and animals |
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