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| a species which has been there for a very long time. |
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| an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. |
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| a toxic substance of a living orgin. |
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| a single introduced species destroying natural species. |
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| the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit. |
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a complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community (food cycle.).
flow of energy and matter. |
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| active demand by two or more organisms or kinds of organisms for some environmental source in short supply. |
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| adjustment to environmental condition. |
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| to remove or destroy utterly. |
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data collected through senses. orderly, direct information about a natural phenomenon
specific, description, detailed, characteristics, (physical), quantative oobservatins (#'s), use science terms
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The pill bugs have 14 legs. |
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data that are descriptions of what our senses detect.
a statement without numbers; comparing; describing movement; descriptive.
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More pill bugs were in the wet environment. |
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data collected as numbers, data which can be measured, numbers and units.
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The average number of pill bugs on the wet side is 14. |
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adding what you know to make a logical conclusion, a conclusion based on your observations, assumption based on prior expirences; or inferring
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The pill bugs are mostly on the dark side because they are trying to sleep. |
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testable explanation of a situation. (if, then, than statement.). includes:
assumption- a possible explanation to a problem (if)
condition- how you plan to test your assumption (than)
predicition- what you think will happen when your assumption is tested (then)
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If the amount of moisture affects the behavior of the pill bugs then more pill bugs will chose the wet side than the dry side. |
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Any trial or test of a hypothesis under carefully managed conditions.
a trial or experiment that includes a control (comparison) group; also called a controlled study. |
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manipulated; tampered with; can be change in a controlled; factor test and affects the expirements outcome. (x-axis)
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type of environment (wet vs. dry; light vs. dark)
how wet the leaf is (wet vs. dry.). |
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measurable; numbers; values change because changes to the independent variable (y-axis.).
results from or depends on changes to the independent vaiable.
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Number of pill bugs on each side over time.
The amount of pennies the leaf could hold. |
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| a factor that remains fixed during an experiment while the independent and dependent variables change. |
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| information that will support your reasoning; proff of something. |
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taxonomic group of one or more kingdoms.
(classification)
any of the three primary divisons of living systems, consisting of the eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea, that rank above a kingdom in taxonnomic systems that are based on similarites of DNA sequences. |
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a classification that includes all organiams with cells and nuclei.
eu= true karya= nucleus.
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humans |
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exoskeleton; joint appendages.
arth= joint pod= foot. |
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| an invertebrate with a segmented body, paired limbs on each segment, and a stiffened external cuticle. arthrods contain the largest number of species of any animal phylum. they include insects, arachnids (spiders, mites, ticks), crustaceans, centipedes, millipedes, and some extinct groups such as trilobites. |
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| a group of arthopods, predominantley marine, with calicum carbonate in the cuticle, primitively 2-branched limbs, and unique segmentation patterns. they include pill bugs, shrimp, krill, brine shrimp (sea monkeys), and alaphnia (water fleas.). |
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| the stiffened exoskeleton of an arthropod composed of protein, the polysaccaride chition, and sometimes calcium carbonate. it is frequently waterproofed with surface waxes. the cuticle iis periodically molted to allow for growth. |
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| organisms that are active at night. |
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Orientation Behaviors:
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taxis- animal moves towards or away from a stimulus.
kinesis- random animal movement that does not result in orientation with respect to a stimulus.
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| any change in an organism's internal or external environment that causes the organism to react. |
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| physical area in which organisms live., the specific climate, terrain, soil, and vegetation which provide suitable condition for a certain species. |
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| an organic substance that, with cellulose, forms the chief part of woody tissue. |
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| inherit carbohydrate- chief constituent of cell walls of plants and of wood, cotton, hem, paper, ect. (complex) (fibers.). |
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| swollen; distended; tumid; inflates; overblown, pompours, bombastic. |
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