Life Science - 3
Energy is provided to producers by
What is the sun
Word for all living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
After something dies, the matter is consumed, broken down, and returned to the environment by these.
What is a decomposer?
What is the study of organisms and their environment called?
What is Ecology?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose, using the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
a layer that surrounds and protects the cell ____________.
What is a Cell membrane
High biodiversity increases the stability of what?
What is the ecosystem?
cellular respiration mainly occurs here
What is the mitochondria
Name and describe 1 biome/ecosystem.
forests, grasslands, deserts, tundra, aquatic
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
One organisms depend on a host organism in a way that harms the host.
What is parasitism?
the organisms in an ecosystem that gets the LEAST amount of energy.
What are the top consumers/ apex predators
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
What are the three pieces of evidence that supports cell theory?
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All living things are made of one or more cells.
Cells are the basic units of structure and function in living things.
All cells come from other cells.
The human body system that involves the heart, blood, veins, and arteries
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What is the Cardio-vascular system?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
group of simplest organisms without a nucleus are called...?
The smallest living part of any living organism?
What is a cell?
Describe 4 practices that can protect the ecosystem in which we live?
Paramecia are oval-shaped, __________________________ organisms
What is single-celled?
Under a strong microscope, you can see several kinds of cell structures called
_____________________ inside a paramecium
Organelles