These organelles produce energy within the cell.
What are mitochondria?
This organelle is responsible for photosynthesis in plant cells.
What is chloroplast?
This amount of energy is passed up to each level in the food chain.
What is 10%?
Factors such as weather, sunlight, and temperature that can affect the species in an ecosystem-
What are abiotic factors?
The body's desire to maintain a stable internal environment. (balance)
What is homeostasis?
A segment of DNA that has information for a specific trait (characteristic)-
What is a gene?
This system is responsible for exchanging the gases CO2 and O2
A. Respiratory
B. Circulatory
C. Reproductive
D. Digestive
What is A. Respiratory?
Grouping cells together makes these.
What are tissues?
Which consumer would receive the greatest amount of energy captured by the producers in their food chains?
What are ring-tailed opossums?
The number and variety of species in an area-
What is biodiversity?
Factors that control a population's size in an ecosystem.
What are limiting factors?
What is organelle 1?
The Excretory System is responsible for an object
A. moving
B. removing wastes from the body
C. responding to stimuli
D. digesting
What is B. removing wastes from the body?
When referring to cells, pro means this.
What is NO? As in NO nucleus.
These two organisms in the food web compete for the same food source.
What are frogs and snakes?
Which ecosystem below is likely to be the LEAST sustainable?
What is ecosystem 1, because it has the fewest species?
OR ecosystem 3 because the insects are likely to overpopulate and eat the wheat.
Process by which organisms with certain traits survive and reproduce more successfully than others.
What is natural selection?
Which of the organisms can produce offspring that are genetically identical to the parent? (more than one)
What are the amoebas, yeasts, hydras, and ferns?
This body system controls fight or flight response and responses to external stimuli.
What is the nervous system?
This organelle converts food into useable energy for the cell.
What is mitochondria?
In this aquatic food web, these organisms have a predator-prey relationship.
What are blue crabs and rangia clams, blueback herrings and striped bass, cormorants and striped bass, shad and opossum shrimp, etc...?
What is C. modify the area and allow larger and more complex organisms to appear?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph?
Genetic traits that help organisms survive in their environments.
What are adaptations?
This system carries nutrient rich blood throughout the body and then carries away waste from organs and tissue.
What is the circulatory system?
_________ cells have a nucleus and organelles, but __________ do NOT have a nucleus or organelles.
What are eukaryotic and prokaryotic?
This many organisms in this food web eat only producers.
What is 3?
These (floods, volcanoes, fires) affect organisms but there is no time for the organisms to adapt.
What are short term environmental changes?
Two ways in which plant and animal cells are different.
What is plant cells have chloroplasts and cell walls?
A process used to develop new organisms, such as cows or dogs, with desirable characteristics chosen by HUMANS.
What is selective breeding?
This body system's main function is for support and protection.
What is the skeletal system?
Organisms in domain eukarya tend to be
A. Multicellular
B. Unicellular
C. Simple
D. Photosynthetic
What is A. Multicellular?
These two organisms are herbivores.
What are amphipods and copepods?
All of the living organisms that inhabit a particular area.
The maximum number of organisms that an environment can sustain, based on limiting factors.
What is carrying capacity?
Eye color is this kind of trait.
What is inherited?
This body system enables movement of the body and organs.
What is the muscular system?
This cell organelle contains everything related to genetics, including inherited traits.
What is the nucleus?
The autotroph/s in this food web.
What are phytoplankton and seaweed?
This population leveled off because it reached this.
What is its carrying capacity?
Space, food, water are examples of this.
This enables a population of organisms to better withstand negative events.
What is biodiversity?
The endocrine system is responsible for
A. Producing hormones
B. digestion
C. Producing rainbows.
D. Breaking down nutrients
What is A. Producing hormones?
The levels of organization, starting with cells and ending with ecosystems.
What are Cells > Tissues > Organs > Organ System > Organism > Population > Community > Ecosystem?
This type of consumer that is NOT represented in this food web.
What is an omnivore?
These are things that cause the population to stay stable and not over-increase.
What are limiting factors?
Organisms that play an exceptionally powerful role in their environment.
What is a keystone predator?
This is what the abbreviation DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?