APBIO Isopods Vocab

Isopod

Pillbugs, Roly Polys, etc.

Animal Behavior

the study of everything an animal does and how it responds to internal or external stimuli.

Crustacean

a member of a large, mostly aquatic group of arthropods that includes well-known animals like crabs, lobsters, shrimp, krill, and barnacles

Producer

an organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun or chemical reactions.

Consumer

a living organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms.

Decomposer

an organism that breaks down dead plants, animals, and waste materials into simpler organic and inorganic nutrients.

Respire

break down nutrients (like glucose) to produce energy (ATP) for the cell, while releasing waste products

choice chamber

a simple multi-compartment laboratory device used in high school biology to study the habitat preferences and behavioral responses of small, mobile invertebrates

hypothesis

a testable, educated prediction or proposed explanation for a natural phenomenon or biological question

claim

a single-sentence statement that directly answers a guiding question or proposes a solution to a scientific problem based on an investigation

evidence

data, test results, or observations used to support or reject a scientific idea or claim