The Circle of Life
MisCELLaneous
Characteristics of Life
Transport
Energy Processes
100
A species that has died out
What is an extinct species?
100
A type of cell whose name literally means "before the nucleus"
What is a prokaryote?
100
The way in which an organism reacts to its surroundings
What is a response to the environment?
100
The name for when the solutions inside and outside of the cell are of the same concentration
What is isotonic?
100
The source of all energy that living things depend on
What is the sun?
200
The variety of life in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
200
The organelle that makes proteins. Found free in prokaryotes and within in the ER in eukaryotic cells.
What are ribosomes?
200
A group of similar cells that altogether perform one role
What is a tissue?
200
The method of transport that requires energy to move particles from a low concentration to a high one
What is active transport?
200
The category of things that harness (use) solar energy to make glucose (sugars)
What are producers?
300
A species that is not indigenous (native) to the ecosystem
What is an exotic species?
300
The lash-like appendix that a bacterium uses to move
What is a flagellum?
300
1. The cell is the smallest unit of life 2. All living things are made of one or more cells 3. New cells come from preexisting cells
What is cell theory?
300
A membrane that allows some things to pass through but limits others
What is a semi-permeable membrane?
300
The basic form of energy in the cell
What is ATP?
400
A diagram that shows the interdependence in an ecosystem and the way that energy flows through that ecosystem
What is a food web?
400
The more rigid layer on the outside of a plant cell
What is the cell wall?
400
The way in which a cell or an organism maintains a stable internal environment
What is homeostasis?
400
The process by which a cell expels (gets rid of) waste material
What is exocytosis?
400
The site of photosynthesis
What is a chloroplast?
500
The introduction into an ecosystem of a substance that has poisonous effects
What is pollution?
500
The backbone of the cell membrane
What is the phospholipid bilayer?
500
The characteristics of life related to nucleotides, nucleoids, nucleic acid, and nuclei. (3 possible answers)
What are reproduction, growth and development, and evolution?
500
The state of balance where the internal and external conditions are the same
What is equilibrium?
500
The process that generates energy by breaking down sugar molecules
What is cellular respiration?
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