Chapter 1
The smallest unit of living matter
What is a cell?
production of a new organism with two parents
What is sexual reproduction?
All living and nonliving things live in this
ex. a forest
What is a ecosystem?
The continuous movement of Earth's water between the surface and the air
What is the water cycle?
2 x 7 x 2
How much is 28?
A one celled organism
What is a unicellular organism?
the production of a new organism with one parent
What is asexual reproduction?
The number of a single species in an environment
What is population?
The continuous exchange of carbon among living things
What is the carbon cycle?
7 x 8 + 58
How much is 114?
An organism with many cells
What is a multicellular organism?
A type of asexual reproduction where offspring splits apart from its parent
What is splitting?
The number of all the living things in an environment
What is a community
The trapping of nitrogen gas and releasing it back into the air
What is the nitrogen cycle?
22 x 3
How much is 12?
The brain of a cell
What is a nucleus?
A type of reproduction where a bud is formed on a parent and later breaks off
What is budding?
Any resource that restricts the growth of a population
What is a limiting factor?
A mixture of dead organic material that can be used as fertilizer
What is compost?
3 x 5 x 7
How much is 105?
The stiff structure outside the cell membrane (hint: plant cell)
What is the cell wall?
The part of a flower where the eggs are stored
What is the ovary?
The greatest number of Individual that an ecosystem can support
What is carrying Capacity
A species that is low in numbers and is about to be extinct
ex. pandas, white rhinos, turtles
What is an endangered species?
35
How much is 48?