ECOLOGY
This diagram models the feeding relationship within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This system allows for nutrients and oxygen to be circulated throughout the body
What is the circulatory system?
An organism that is made of many cells. Includes plants and animals.
What is multicellular?
A organism made of a single cell?
What is unicellular?
Described the slices of cork as little rooms, calling them cells (pg 42-43)
Who is Robert Hooke?
Soil, water, temperature are all considered what in an ecosystem?
What are abiotic factors?
This organ takes in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide
What are the lungs?
The structure in the cell that holds the genetic material
What is the nucleus?
Any microorganism, especially a bacterium, that causes disease or illness
What is a pathogen?
One of the first to observe and record microscopic organisms (pg 42-43)
Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?
a non-native species introduced into an area which impacts the local ecosystem
What is an invasive species?
If someone touches you, these sends signals to the brain
What are neurons?
These are small structures inside cells that perform different tasks
What are organelles?
These organelles are the powerhouses of the cell
What are mitochondria?
Devised the theory of natural selection (pg 26)
Who is Charles Darwin?
These organisms break down dead material to return the nutrients back into the soil to be used again.
What is a decomposer?
The brain, nerves, and spinal cord are all a part of the
What is the nervous system?
This is the tool used to see microscopic organisms
What is a microscope or compound microscope?
The idea that microbes can cause infectious diseases and were easily spread by people
What is the germ theory of disease?
This scientist created the process of Pasteurization which makes milk safe to drink (pg 549)
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This is the variety of life at every level from species to ecosystems
What is biodiversity?
This system protects against diseases such as bronchitis, pneumonia, and the common cold
What is the immune system?
This is the theory that all living organisms are made up of cells
What is the cell theory?
Cells break down food for energy to move and build new structures, and release carbon dioxide as waste
What is cellular respiration?
Found out the source of the 1854 Cholera outbreak in London as contaminated water (not in book!)
Who is John Snow?
A rhino with a bird on its back eating parasites is called what kind of symbiotic relationship?
What is mutualism?
This structure uses very powerful acid to break up food
What is the stomach?
These cells are rectangular-shaped due to the cell wall.
What is a plant cell?
This acts as a barrier to control what enters or leaves the cell
What is the cell membrane?
Created the system of scientific classification that we use today (pg 16)
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
What is the largest known animal?
What is the Blue whale?