Cells
This is the basic unit of all living things.
What is a cell?
The process by which populations change over many generations.
What is evolution?
Plants use sunlight to make sugar through this process.
What do is photosynthesis?
The process in which liquid water becomes water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
An organism that makes its own food is called this.
What is a producer?
This structure contains most of the DNA in a eukaryotic cell.
What is the nucleus?
Charles Darwin proposed this major mechanism of evolution.
What is natural selection?
This molecule contains the genetic instructions for most living organisms.
What is DNA?
Bonus, What does this stand for?
Plants remove this gas from the atmosphere during photosynthesis.
What is CO2?
All members of the same species living in the same area make up this.
What is a population?
This organelle is responsible for producing most of a cell's usable energy.
What is the mitochondria?
A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
The process cells use to release usable energy from glucose.
What is cellular respiration?
Animals return carbon dioxide to the atmosphere through this cellular process.
What is cellular respiration?
The maximum population size an environment can sustainably support.
What is carrying capacity?
Plant cells have these structures for photosynthesis that animal cells do not.
What are chloroplasts?
This process is what ultimatley leads to the process of evolution.
What is mutation?
Sweating when you become too hot is an example of your body maintaining this stable internal condition.
What is homeostasis?
These organisms break down dead matter and return nutrients to the environment.
What are decomposers?
Food webs show that energy moves through an ecosystem. Most energy originally enters ecosystems from this source.
What is the Sun?
These cells lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Give an example of a body part you have that shows evidence of past human evolution.
Tailbone, Appendix, Vestigial Organs
A change in the DNA sequence of an organism is called this.
What is a mutation?
Name the three main elements included in the Biogeochemical Cycle.
Hint (Three elements that all living things need)
Explain what would happen if wolves disappear from an ecosystem. List what would happen to the producers, primary and secondary consumers.
Deer population explodes which leads to the decrease of plant life, which leads to the decrease of deer population due to starvation.