Module 1
Organisms that eat only plants
What are HERBIVORES? (19)
Anything that has mass and takes up space (has volume)
What is matter? (38)
The study of the interactions between living things
What is ecology? (86)
Number of protons in an atom
what is atomic number? (40)
Organisms that are internally warmed by a heat-generating metabolic process
What is an endotherm? (20)
Organisms that produce their own food
What are PRODUCERS or AUTOTROPHS? (18)
The difference between adhesion and cohesion
What is cohesion is an attractive force holding molecules of the same substance together and adhesion holds molecules of different substances together? (52)
An association of living organisms and their physical environment
What is an ecosystem? (86)
A molecule that contains atoms of at least two different elements
What is a compound? (43)
The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions
What is abiogenesis? (14)
The sum total of all processes in an organism that convert energy and matter from outside sources and then use that created energy and matter to sustain that organism's life functions
What is METABOLISM? (18)
A chemical reaction in which molecules combine by removing water
What is a dehydration reaction? (61)
A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life
What is a biome? (86)
Sum of the protons and neutrons in an atom
What is the atomic mass? (42)
Evaporation of water from the leaves of plants
What are transpiration? (97)
An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to its parents
What is a MUTATION? (22)
Breaking down complex molecules by adding water
What is the hydrolysis? (62)
Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms
What are decomposers? (89)
Chemical bond formed by the sharing of electrons between two or more atoms
What is covalent? (47)
A close relationship between two or more species where at least one benefits
What is a symbiosis? (107)
could accept parasitism (123)
The process by which physical and biological characteristics are transmitted from the parent (or parents) to the offspring
What is INHERITANCE? (22)
What is activation energy? (72)
The process by which certain gases (primarily water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape Earth and radiate into space
What is the greenhouse effect? (98)
Positively or negatively charged atoms resulting from the transfer of electrons
What are ions? (46)
A relationship between two or more organisms of different species where all benefit from the association
What are mutualism? (123)
commensalism and parasitism are covered on this page too