Chapter 8 Vocab
In ___________________, plants convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food-energy molecule glucose through a series of chemical reactions. The process gives off oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
What is an ecosystem?
True or False: Humans can perform photosynthesis.
What is false?
Terrestrial means related to _________.
What is land?
What does all matter have?
What is Mass?
______________ is a series of chemical reactions that convert the energy in food molecules into a usable form of energy called ATP.
What is Cellular Respiration?
__________ are large regions that have specific types of climate, physical characteristics, and organisms.
What are biomes?
What is it called when the life cycle of an organism alternates between diploid and haploid generations.
What is Alternation of Generations?
____________ are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
The smallest unit that can perform all life processes is called...
What is a cell?
Although plants cannot move from one place to another, they do respond to ___________, or changes in their environments.
What are stimuli?
One environment changes into another in a process called ______________.
What is succession?
Which organelle is the site of photosynthesis?
What is chloroplast?
A ____________ is all the populations living in an ecosystem at the same time.
What is a community?
The force that something has when it is moving is called...
What is momentum?
_______________ are growth responses toward or away from stimuli such as light, touch, and gravity.
What are tropisms?
The physical space where a population or organism lives is called a _________.
What is a habitat?
Which is a product of photosynthesis? :carbon dioxide, glucose, light, or water
What is glucose?
Which type of consumer gets all the energy it needs from producers?
What is herbivore?
Which of Newton's Laws state that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
What is Newton's Third Law?
________________ is a plant's response to the number of hours of darkness in its environment.
What is photoperiodism?
____________ cannot make their own food and get energy by eating other organisms.
What are consumers?
What structure transports sugars throughout a plant?
What is phloem?
What are Earth's six Major Biomes as listed on page 312?
What are Desert, Tundra, Grassland, Saltwater, Freshwater, and Forest Biome?
The maintenance of an internal state in a changing environment is called...
What is homeostasis?