Ecology Final Review

What is an inference?

• Something you observe

• Something you already know

• An educated guess based on backrground knowledge

• a random guess on something that happened.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is a dependent variable?

• What you change in an experience

• What stays the same throughout an experiment

• What changes based on the Independent variable

• What changes based on the weather outside

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What is a renewable resource?

• Something that is renewed by nature.

• Something that replenishes slower than we use it

• Something that never runs out

• Something that doesn't exist

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A nonrenewable source is something that replenishes at a faster rate than we use it.

• True

• False

What is a water shed

• where a river meets an ocean

• Bodies of flowing water moving in one direction from high to low ground

• The land area that water moves across as it reaches a river system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which is a biotic factor?

• Soil

• Water

• Trees

• Rock

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Salinity Definition

• The depth of the water

• A mixture of salt and fresh water

• how much oxygen is in the water

• The measure of salt in the water

What is the Photic Zone?

• The top layer of water that receives enough sunlight for photosynthesis

• Layer of water with no sunlight available

• Very bottom of any body of water

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What are Mangroves?

• Plants that tolerate cold weather very well.

• Plants that grow in tidal areas and love salt.

• Plants that hate salt and only grow in deserts

Herbivore Definition

• Eats only dead things

• Eats only other animals

• Eats only plants

• Eats everything