Vocab 5
a measurement of the number of different species living in an area.
Chlor
What is green?
Any interaction that involves a close, physical, long term relationship between two species.
What is Symbiosis?
Hypo
What is below or less?
a diagram that shows multiple food chains at once, and how they interconnect.
What is Food web?
trans
What is across?
a type of PROTEIN that speed up biochemical reactions by lowering the activation energy.
What is Enzyme?
tonic
What is to stretch?
List 3 characteristics of a living organism
What is a reproduction, use energy, waste, growth/development, homeostasis, adaptation/adjustment, made of cells.
the thinning of the ozone layer due to the presence of man-made materials such as CFC’s.
What is an ozone depletion.
Hyper
What is above or beyond?
all of the things an organism needs and does within its habitat.
What is Niche?
Kary
What is cell nucleus?
a simple sugar; an important energy source in living organisms; a component of many carbohydrates.
What is Glucose?
extra
What is beyond?
the specific region on an enzyme that binds to a substrate during a reaction.
What is Active site?
osis
What is condition of?
What is the largest level of organization?
What is bioshpere
when substances, such as pollutants, become concentrated in the bodies of consumers as one moves up the food chain.
What is Biomagnification?
saccharide
What is sugar?
One animal kills and eats another for food.
What is Predation?
Chrom
What is color?
a nucleic acid that carries/stores energy for cell functions.
What is Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)?
pino
What is to drink?
the amount of energy needed to make a chemical reaction start.
What is Activation energy?
Iso
What is equal, same?
_________ can not be create or destroyed.
What is energy?
process of ecological change in an ecosystem where one community is replaced by another community over time
What is Ecological succession?
Phag
What is eat?
A species that is critical to an ecosystem because the species affects the survival and number of many other species.
What is Keystone Species?
respire
What is breathe?
the overall process by which sunlight (solar/light energy) chemically converts water and carbon dioxide into chemical energy stored in glucose (a sugar/carbohydrate).
What is Photosynthesis?
philic
What is loving?
substances that are changed during a reaction; reactants.
What is Substrate?
bi
What is two, twice?
Biome
What is a large naturally occurring community occupying a major habitat
the first organisms to grow in a new environment
What is Pioneer species?
Pro
What is before or forward?
symbiotic relationship in which One organism benefits while the other is unaffected (neither benefited or harmed). (+,0)
What is Commensalism?
Homeo
What is the same?
the process that converts the chemical energy in food (glucose) to chemical energy stored in ATP.
What are Cellular respiration?
phobic
What is fear of?
when an enzyme’s active site gets deformed and loses its specific shape causing a loss of biological activity.
What is Denaturation?
semi
What is half, partly?
give an example of a specie.
What is jaguar
It is the percent of energy that gets lost at each trophic level.
What is 90%?
A barnacle live on a whale in order to cover more ocean and get more food and the whale doesn't even notice is an example of this type of symbiosis.
What is commensalism?
The definition of Ecology
What is the study of interactions among organisms and their environment
A resource that cannot be replenished.
What is a non-renewable resource?
List three biotic and three abiotic factors
Biotic- grass, animals, tress, insects, bacteria
Abiotic- rock, sun, air, temperature
Give an example of a food chain with 5 trophic level.
grass-grasshopper-bird-snake-eagle
The role an organism occupies in a community.
What is niche?
Rectangular shape that shows the flow of energy in a food chain.
what is energy pyramid
The difference between a food web and food chain
What are interrelationships between organisms: (also biodiversity amongst food choices in a food web)