20 questions
A proposed answer to a question.
Argument
Claim
Model
Evidence
Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation.
Model
Observe
Synthesize
Data
An organism that breaks down droppings or dead organisms.
Decomposer
Energy
Invasive pests
Soil
A scientist who studies ecosystems
Ecosystem
Ecologist
Engineer
Researcher
The ability to make things move or change.
Nutrient
Evidence
Model
Energy
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
Environment
Area
Eradication
Restoration
The complete destruction of something.
Environment
Restoration
Eradication
Invasive pests
Non-indigenous species that causes destruction in an ecosystem.
Invasive pests
Matter
Ecologist
Synthesize
To put together multiple pieces of information in order to understand something.
Data
Claim
Synthesize
Model
A living thing, such as a plant or animal.
Food web
Ecologist
Energy
Organism
The process of returning something to its original condition by fixing or repairing it.
Eradication
Restoration
Model
Fixing
A mixture of rocks, water, air, parts of dead organisms, and tiny living organisms.
Soil
Matter
Environment
Invasive pests
Information that supports an answer to a question.
Model
Argument
Evidence
Claim
A diagram that shows what eats what in an ecosystem.
Molecule
Chart
Food line
Food web
The stuff that things are made of.
Everything
Matter
Soil
Organism
Something scientists make to answer questions about the real world.
Model
Claim
Data
Evidence
A group of atoms joined together in a particular way.
Soil
Atom
Molecule
Ecologist
Something taken in by plants and animals that helps them grow.
Water
Nutrients
Energy
Food web
To use any of the five senses to gather information about something.
Watch
Observe
Restoration
Claim
The use of evidence to say why one idea is the best.
Argument
Model
Synthesize
Claim