Vocab
Factor in an environment that is living.
What is "biotic"?
Why are there fewer organisms that can be supported at the top of the food web?
What is less energy available? (energy loss as you go up trophic levels
The smallest unit of structure in a LIVING THING?
What is a CELL?
This element can make four bonds.
What is Carbon?
BIOLOGY the study of __________.
What is Life?
The same types of organisms that live in a defined area?
What is a population?
Describe an interaction between 2 biotic factors in an ecosystem.
What is a grasshopper eating grass.
What characteristic of life is demonstrated by a new baby being born?
What is Reproduction?
Name the elements that can be found in all four of the macromolecules.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen?
The evaporation of water from the leaves of plants?
What is transpiration?
Any living thing is called ______________.
What is an organism?
Type of succession on bare rock.
What is primary succession.
A scientific guess or prediction is called...
What is a hypothesis?
Nucleotides consist of a phosphate group, a nitrogen base, and a ______________,
What is a pentose sugar?
The process of keeping conditions inside a body constant or in balance.
What is homeostasis?
The process of keeping conditions inside a body constant or in balance.
What is homeostasis?
In an ecosystem, Nitrogen is fixed from the atmosphere into a usable form.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
What is the source of energy for most living things?
What is the SUN?
Enzyme + Sustrate ---> ___________
What is a product?
The term used to describe the energy needed to get a reaction started.
What is activation energy?
A substance that slows down or stops a chemical reaction.
What is an inhibitor?
In an ecosystem, organisms have specific roles - such as feeding relationships and how they use their environment.
What is Niche?
List all of the levels of living things in an organism.
What is: cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
The chemical process used to join monomers to make polymers; LOSS of water in the reaction is _____________.
What is a dehydration synthesis?
The process that changes one set of chemicals into another set of chemicals.
What is a chemical reaction?