Cumulative Vocab Quiz Review

The end of your experiment. Meant to tell you whether your hypothesis is correct or incorrect.

A series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating other organisms and being eaten themselves.

Organisms that break down dead material

• Predator

• Prey

• Consumers

• Decomposers

A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce

Numerical data; involves numbers (measurements, weight counting, etc.)

• Qualitative Data

• Data

• Observations

• Quantitative Data

A community of interacting organisms and their environment

An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or energy

• Predator

• Predation

• Competition

• Parasitism

8 Biomes

An arrangement or organization of parts to form an organ, system, or living thing.