Science Vocab

Question 1

Energy Pyramid

Answer 1

A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem

Question 2

Food Web

Answer 2

A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things

Question 3

Decomposer

Answer 3

Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

Question 4

Food Chain

Answer 4

A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

Question 5

Coniferous

Answer 5

A type of plant with needle-like leaves that uses cones to reproduce

Question 6

Consumer

Answer 6

An organism that eats other living things to get energy ; an organism that does not produce its own food

Question 7

Biome

Answer 7

A major ecological community such as grassland, tropical rain forest, or desert

Question 8

Deciduous

Answer 8

A forest containing trees that lose their leaves each year

Question 9

Ecology

Answer 9

The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings

Question 10

Cycle

Answer 10

Any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated

Question 11

Nitrogen Cycle

Answer 11

A process in which Nitrogen in the atmosphere enters the soil and becomes part of the living organism then eventually returns to the atmosphere

Question 12

Biotic Factors

Answer 12

All the living parts of an ecosystem

Question 13

Water Cycle

Answer 13

The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and air

Question 14

Abiotic Factor

Answer 14

All the non-living parts of an ecosystem

Question 15

Producer

Answer 15

An organism that makes its own food; an organism that does not consume other plants or animals

Question 16

Carbon Cycle

Answer 16

A natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue through photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere by respiration, decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels

Question 17

Predator

Answer 17

An animal that hunts and eats another animal

Question 18

Prey

Answer 18

An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Question 19

Succession

Answer 19

The progression replacement of one community by another until a climax community is established

Question 20

Levels of organization

Answer 20

Species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere

Question 21

Metric system

Answer 21

Kilo, hecta, deca, gram, meter, liter, deci, Centi, milli

Question 22

Constant Variable

Answer 22

The Variable that doesn’t change

Question 23

Hypothesis

Answer 23

An if/then statement; an educated guess

Question 24

Dependent Variable

Answer 24

The thing that is being measured

Question 25

Independent Variable

Answer 25

One thing that does change in an experiment

Question 26

Lab Safety Rules

Answer 26

Just study because there are too many rules to put down.