Topic 1 Ecosystems
What is anthroposphere?
A location where carbon is stored
What is a carbon reservoir?
Carbohydrates used for short-term energy storage (minutes or hours)
What is a monomer?
The type of respiration that does not require oxygen
What is anaerobic respiration?
Mistakes that occur during DNA replication
What is a mutation?
Individuals leaving their population and joining another population of the same species.
What is immigration/emigration?
The source of energy for every food chain
What is the sun?
The process in which monomers join together to create polymers and water (byproduct)
What is dehydration synthesis?
Scientific method used to put rocks in comparison order of their age
What is relative dating?
The enzyme involved in DNA replication that unwinds and unzips DNA
What is DNA helicase?
Climate change, drought, earthquakes, and floods are all examples of density ________ factors
What is a density independent factor?
A process that moves carbon from one carbon reservoir to another
What is a carbon flow?
The part of the chloroplast where light dependent reactions occur
What is a thylakoid?
The process that creates the most ATP during cellular respiration
Building blocks of DNA. Made up of a phosphate, a sugar, and a nitrogenous base (A, C, T, G).
What is a nucleotide?
Any non-living thing that affects an ecosystem and the organisms within in
What is an abiotic factor?
Carbon flow that is increased by human activity
What is combustion?
An organism that is able to make its own energy using the sun (example: plants) (hint: think about the bottom of a food web)
What is a producer?
What is glycolysis?
One side of a DNA molecule is right side up and the other side is facing the opposite direction
What is antiparallel?
A group of two or more species that live and interact in the same area at the same time
What is a community?
When carbon dioxide from the atmosphere dissolves into ocean water, lowering the ocean's pH
What is ocean acidification?
The short term form of energy (monomer) that plants need to survive. (hint: why do plants perform photosynthesis?)
What is glucose?
The step in anaerobic respiration that creates either lactic acid or alcohol as byproducts
What is fermentation?
The type of bonds that connect the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA
What is a covalent bond?