Ecosystem Basics
This is the term for a nonliving thing in an ecosystem.
What is an Abiotic Factor?
This is the term given to a triangle shaped tool used to show how much energy is passed from one organism to the next.
What is an Energy Pyramid
This atoms make a water molecule.
What is 2 hydrogens and 1 water atom?
The monomer that makes up carbohydrates are called this.
What is a monosaccharide
The two types of nucleic acids are know as this.
What is DNA & RNA
This two term are used for organisms that make their own energy from the suns rays.
What is an Autotroph or Producer
This is the direction arrows point in a food web.
The way energy flow or towards the organism that is eating the other.
Water can bond with other surfaces because of this unique property.
What is Adhesion?
The function of both carbohydrates and lipids.
What is to store energy?
The monomer of a protein is known as this
What is an amino acid?
The scientific name of this organism.
Domain: Eukaryote
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Erethizontidae
Genus: Erethizon
Species: Dorsaum
What is Erethizon Dorsaum
This type of ecological relationship is beneficial to both organisms involved
What is mutualism?
Water can bond with itself because it forms these type of bonds.
What are hydrogen bonds?
A triglyceride is made up of these?
What are 3 fatty acids and 1 glycerol?
This is the part of an amino acid that makes each one different from each other.
What is the R group?
This is the most inclusive taxonomic level.
What is a Domain?
The organism that is the first to eat in a food web is known as this.
what is a primary consumer?
This is the term used to describe a molecule with unequal sharing of electrons between the atoms.
What is polar?
Monosaccharides are joined together by a process that makes a water molecule to form this special type of bond.
What is a glyosidic linkage?
amino acids are joined together to form a polypeptide by this process that makes a water molecule.
What is dehydration synthesis?
When thinking about the characteristic of life this is shown when a seed turns in to a tree
what is the ability to grow and develop?
If the producer in an ecosystem make 60,000 kilocalories of energy the tertiary consumer will receive this much of the energy.
What is 0.1% or 60 kilocalories?
Water does not mix with oil because oil is __________.
Oil is hydrophobic
The head (phosphate) group of a phospholipid is ___________ while the tails (fatty acid chains) are _____________.
What is heads are hydrophilic while the tails are hydrophobic?
The different between the sugar in a nucleic acid is this.
The presence on one more oxygen in ribose sugar.