Question | Answer |
Renewable resource and example | can replenish itself within a lifetime, ex: water, trees |
Nonrenewable resource and example | will eventually run out, ex: coal, oil |
Abiotic and give an example | nonliving thing, ex: rocks, wind, water |
Biotic and give an example | living thing, ex: grass, trees, animals |
Natural selection | occurs in nature; survival of the fittest |
Artificial selection | humans manipulate genetics to produce what they want |
Name and explain the ranges from the chart | Optimal range (top; where things are thriving);
Zone of physiological stress (downslope);
Zone of intolerance (no tolerance for conditions that exist) |
Organize the levels from smallest to largest | organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere |
Psuedoscience and give three examples | doesn't follow scientific principles, ex: Mind reading, alchemy, astrology, palm reading |
What are the steps for the scientific method? | 1) Come up with a question, 2) Hypothesis, 3) Experiment, 4) Analysis of the data, 5) Make a conclusion, 6) Determine if the hypothesis is supported |
Variable | thing that is changed |
Experimental group | receives the variable |
Controlled group | is left alone |
What are the 3 phases of matter? | solid, liquid, gas |
blind experiment | scientist knows what is going on, the experimental group does not |
double blind experiment | neither the experimental group nor the scientist knows what is going on |
What does the double blind experiment reduce? | bias |
Voc. Matching | |
What starts as one population and splits into 2? | Divergent evolution |
What goes from 2 populations and evolves into 1? | Convergent evolution |
when two species spend enough time together they start to look like each other | Coevolution |
When over a long period of time enough mutations take place for a new species to emerge | Speciation |
Small advantageous mutations that have accumulated over countless generations | Evolution |
competition occurs within members of the same species | Intraspecific competition |
competition occurs between two different species | interspecific competition |
Plays the greatest role in determining an organisms range; too much or too little, animals need specific things | critical factor |
specific gene traits that control adaptations | Inheritance |
When both organisms benefit | Mutualism |
When one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped | commensalism |
when one organism benefits and the other is harmed | parasitism |
nature should exist for its own sake regardless of human needs | Ecocentrists |
Human centered | Anthropocentrists |
Biological community and its surrounding physical environment | Ecosystem |
a specific area where an organism inhabits | Niche |
Trait that allows a species to survive more easily and reproduce | Adaptation |
A particular environment where an organism can live | Habitat |
all conditions that surround living organisms | Environment |
concepts and ideas from multiple fields of study | Interdisciplinary |
degradation or an undesired change in soil, air or water that affects the health of living things | Pollution |
began with a public awakening to threats of pollution and toxic chemicals to humans and other species | Modern environmentalism (Rachel Carson) |
explores issues ad problems all over the entire world not just a local community | Global environmentalism |
area that belongs to no individual and is shared by the entire society | Commons |
the greater the demand for something the higher the price | Supply & Demand |
does the risk out way the benefit? Is it worth the risk | Risk Analysis |
measurement of a persons resource use | Ecological footprint |
when human needs are met so that the population can survive indefinitely | sustainability |
Write out voc. | |
Close system | nothing enters or leaves the earth in large quantities |
Biodiversity | the number of different species present in an ecosystem |
Developed country | High income, higher life span, lower population growth |
Developing country | Low income, lower life span, higher population growth |