Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Name the three levels of biodiversity.
The small unit of life.
What is the cell?
During this process, glucose reacts with oxygen to produce energy into a form that living cells can use along with the byproduct of carbon dioxide and water.
What is cellular respiration?
The basic unit of ecology.
What is an ecosystem?
List the five basic biome types.
What is grasslands, forests, tundra, deserts, and aquatic biome.
The process through which organisms strive to maintain a stable internal state.
What is homeostasis?
**Daily Double: How do cells maintain homeostasis?
This process is called cellular respiration, and it is the slow combustion of glucose (from food) with oxygen. The reaction products are carbon dioxide, water, and molecules of ATP where energy is stored for powering all cellular processes.
What is how animals use matter to produce energy?
The names of the two types of ecological succession.
What is primary and secondary succession?
**Daily Double: What is the first community to come first in an ecological succession?
Name the five major threats to biodiversity.
What are habitat loss, species loss, pollution, overharvesting, and disease.
Give examples of the four different ways plants reproduce.
What is cross-pollination of flowers, self-pollination in corn, vegetative reproduction in bulbs of tulips, vegetative propagation in runners of a spider plant?
What is photosynthesis?
Name and describe the 3 types of symbiosis.
What is "parasitism - one benefits, one is harmed, commensalism - one benefits, one is unchanged, and mutualism - both benefit"?
These are positive benefits such as those provided by healthy forests.
What are Ecosystem Services
**Daily Double: Name the 3 types of Ecosystem Services and give examples of each.
This is evidence that supports the claim that the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.
What is "life is organized into distinct levels: cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organism and cells specialize for different functions in different types of tissue."
What is fermentation?
Describe 4 biotic and 4 abiotic factors that limit the carrying capacity of an ecosystem.
What is invasive species, predator/prey relationships, overpopulation, competition, temperature, global wind patterns, type and quality of soil, and atmosphere?
This makes use of high species diversity on agricultural land to regenerate soil, improve water retention, increase the number of healthy microorganisms and food production.
What is regenerative agriculture?
The 3 main tenets of the of cell theory.
What is "all living things are made of one or more cells, all cells come from pre-existing cells, the cell is the fundamental unit of structure and function in all living things"?
Describe how matter tracks through the autotrophs, heterotrophs, detritivores, and decomposers in an ecosystem.
What is "Water, carbon dioxide, and nutrients are used by autotrophs (plants, etc., that make their own food by photosynthesis) to build their bodies. Some heterotrophs are the herbivores that eat plants (autotrophs), taking the plant matter into their bodies. Other heterotrophs are carnivores that eat the herbivores. All these eventually die. Then the matter is consumed, broken down, and returned to the environment by decomposers such as mushrooms and bacteria, and detritivores such as earthworms, maggots, and ants."?
The difference between a scientific fact and truth.
What is "a scientific fact is something that is correct as far as we know and truth is the way things really are and is never changing"?
**Daily Double: Describe the 3 ways we can know truth.