Category 1
A ___Albedo would ___ more light and be a __ colour and the temperature would be ___
High, reflect, light, cold
Low, absorb, dark, hot
abiotic factors
Name 3 cycles that contain a gaseous state
Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Water
An organism that cannot produce food for itself is called a
heterotroph
This process produces glucose and oxygen as products
Photosynthesis
What is the process by which plants give off water vapor through the stomata in their leaves?
Transpiration
What is created by different populations of different species living together and interacting with each other
Community
The use and reuse of materials of the Earth is called
Biogeochemical cycles
If a Wolf eats a Rabbit and a Rabbit eats a Plant, who is the primary consumer?
Rabbit
What type of organisms can survive without energy from the sun?
Chemotrophs
Which disease would increase due to decreased ozone levels and why?
Skin cancer because more UV light would reach earths surface
An explosion of the algae population, usually due to phosphates and nitrogen in the water
Algal Bloom
____ is the process that changes liquid water to gaseous water.
Evaporation
In a food chain there is a frog, grasshopper, grass, and fungi.
Which organism releases nutrients from dead bodies and wastes?
Fungi
What is the difference between Biodiversity and Monoculture?
Biodiversity is the variety of species in an ecosystem, or the variety of biotic factors. Monocultures contain only one species. Monocultures rarely occur in nature, but rather are often created by humans when we farm.
The increase in the concentration of a toxin is called?
Biological Amplification
____ can be passed between organisms, but it cannot be ___ because some of it is lost as ___ in each transfer.
Energy, Recycled, Heat
Which gas is released when algae and other matter are dead and decomposed in large quantities?
Carbon Dioxide
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere is ?
Nitrogen
This is a form of storage for carbon that forms when organic matter is not fully decomposed in waterlogged soils
Peat
How does the world's ocean affects weather and climate?
More moderate
Warmer in winter, Colder in summer
Name 2 processes in the nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen fixation & Denitrification
Name 4 parts of a mitochondria
Inner membrane, outer membrane, Cristae, matrix, intermembrane space
Weightlifters will benefit from ___ twitch fibres, while marathon runners will benefit from __ twitch fibres. Weightlifters will benefit from type __ muscles, while marathon runners will benefit from type __ muscles.
Fast twitch, Slow twitch, type 2, type 1
A researcher wants to study how men vs women react to a certain medication.
He has forty men and forty women, all of them have disease X.
He splits the people so that twenty of each gender get the medication and twenty get a placebo (sugar pill).
After they all take the pill, he tests their ability to read a chart. All subjects respond, but their responses might differ because of the medication.
What are the manipulated, controlled, and responding variables?
Gender, Treatment = Manipulated Variable
Disease X = Controlled variable
Reading the chart = Responding variable