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A body of water where freshwater from rivers or streams mixes with saltwater from the ocean.
What is an estuary?
This biome is found closest to the poles.
What is the tundra?
A rabbit eats 1000g of grass and it gets energy contained in 100g of grass. The hawk eats the rabbit and gets energy contained in this amount of grass.
What is 10g of grass?
These are the other plastids that hold other pigments and cause other colors to be present including red, yellow, orange, and purple.
What are chromoplasts?
Found in the brain, this gland produces hormones which controls a human's reproductive system.
What is the pituitary gland?
The presence or introduction of a substance that is harmful to the environment.
What is pollution?
In this biome, you will find the most evergreen.
What is the coniferous forest?
These are the two sides of the mountain in discussion rainfall and humidity.
What are windward side and leeward side?
This is the process in which the plant seals off its connection to a leaf, causing the leaf to die and fall off.
What is abscission?
This muscle is part of the respiratory system and lies below the lungs and contracts and relaxes to expand and decrease the space around your lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
What is turgor pressure?
This biome is characterized by very low amounts of precipitation.
What is the desert?
This cycle helps move phosphorus around.
What is the water cycle?
This carries the products of photosynthesis. Additionally, sugar travels in both directions in this part of the plant.
What is phloem?
This is an organ that is thought to be a degenerated remnant from an evolutionary ancestor. The appendix is an example where people thought it was an evidence of evolution, but now we know that it's an important lymphoid organ.
What is a vestigial organ?
This is the response of a plant to an environmental stimulus where roots, stems, or leaves move toward or away from the stimulus.
What is tropism?
In this biome, you will find the most epiphytes.
What is the the tropical rainforest?
This ensures that nitrates do not build up in the soil.
What is denitrifying bacteria?
Capillary action in a plant happens through these tubes.
What are xylem tubes?
Name the 4 types of tissues in the human body
epithelial, muscle, connective, nerve
This is a blood protein produced to fight a specific antigen.
What is an antibody?
In this biome, you will find clumps of shrubs with barren areas in between.
What is the scrubland?
This cycle ensures that all organisms have the carbon they need to survive.
These are the four basic types of tissues found in planats.
What are meristematic tissue, epidermal tissue, ground tissue, and vascular tissue?
This system is comprised of 2 kidneys, 2 ureters, 1 urinary bladder, and 1 urethra.
What is the renal system?