What is the simplest building block of any macromolecule?
a monomer
100
Which type of organisms produce their own food?
autotrophs
200
These types of measurements involve numbers.
quantitative
200
Coyotes often roam residential neighborhoods looking for food. This is most likely due to their original habitat being broken up by suburban homes. What type of habitat alteration is this?
habitat fragmentation
200
Which population growth curve resembles and "S"?
logistic
200
What are the 4 categories of macromolecules/
carbohydrate, protein, lipid, nucleic acid
200
There is more carbon dioxide being made by humans than is naturally removed by autotrophs during photosyntheses. What is this excess CO2 thought to cause?
global warming
300
What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?
Theories have been upheld by a vast body of experiments.
300
What are organisms that consume both plant and animal matter?
omnivores
300
What is one change in a lynx population can lead to a temporary increase in hares?
lynx die
300
A disaccharide is split into 2 monosaccharies. What process accomplishes this?
hydrolysis
300
In this type of ecological pyramid, the amount of energy passed to the next trophic level is only 10%.
energy pyramid
400
In a lab on diffusion, a student measure the mass of potato cores before and after putting them in sugar solutions of the following concentration: 0%, 20%, and 40%. What is the control group in this experiment?
The 0% sugar solution.
400
What are the three main cycles of matter/nutrients you learned about in the ecology unit?
carbon, nitrogen, water
400
How has climate change been affecting polar ice caps?
temperature is rising and ice caps are shrinking
400
What is the monomer of a lipids?
glycerol and 3 fatty acids
400
I am a macromolecules composed of amino acids joined by peptide bonds. Who am I?
protein
500
Gerry wants to measure 125 mL of sugar solution for the osmosis lab. What type of tool should he use?
graduated cylinder
500
If nitrogen fixating bacteria in the roots of certain plants were to become extinct tomorrow, predict what would happen to nitrogen levels in our air and soil.
Levels would increase.
500
What tends to happen to the size of non-native species population when they are introduced to a region?
population grows
500
What is the function of the protein called an enzyme?
speed up chemical reactions
500
Everytime a triglyceride (glycerol plus 3 fatty acids is made), how many water molecules are released by the dehydration synthesis process?