Ecosystems
What process do green plants use to convert sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water into glucose and oxygen?
Photosynthesis
One organism benefits and the other organism is harmed.
Parasitism
Where does the process of cellular respiration begin?
Eating or digestion
What is one piece of evidence scientists use to support evolution
Fossils, fossil record, comparative anatomy, genetics
How do we prevent the spread of diseases?
Wash hands, stay home, cover cough, vaccines.
Which term describes the organisms that make their own food and start the food chain?
Autotroph/Producer
Give an example of commensalism.
Answers may vary.
One organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What are the 3 Macronutrients?
Proteins, Carbs, Fats
That the two organisms are related.
What do we use to treat infections?
Antibiotics
What is a food chain?
What relationship is characterized by one organism hunting and eating another organism?
Predation
Photosynthesis produces what macronutrient that gives us energy?
Carbohydrates
What is evidence of evolution whales?
Whales have a vestigial back leg that proves they once walked on land.
What are the similarities of viruses and parasites?
They both need a host
What are 2 abiotic factors that affect an ecosystems health?
water, sunlight, rain, wind, soil, air, oxygen
What is the difference between co-existing and competing?
Co-exist means to live together.
Competing means to fight over resources.
What is the job of decomposers in the cycling of matter?
They break down dead things and return the nutrients back to the soil.
What does the fossil record tell us?
How organisms evolve over time. Conditions over time. What type of environment organisms lived in. Oldest and youngest fossils.
Fungicides
In this given food chain:
grass--->grasshopper---->frog---->alligator
Who is the apex predator?
Alligator
What is the relationship between producers and consumers?
What is the equation for photosynthesis?
Sunlight+CO2+Water
What structures have the same structure but different functions? Ex. Cats leg and humans arm.
homologous structures
What is the difference between epidemic and pandemic?
Epidemic is more localized spread.
Pandemic is worldwide.