Lab safety and equiptment
Micropipettes are used to measure an accurate volume of liquid. How do we determine which size pipette to use in our experiment?
What is, look at ideal volumes for reactions and choose optimal pipette range.
What is the process of fixing chemical energy from a hydrothermal vent called (primary producers).
What is chemosynthesis.
Eurythermal means that a species has a broad temperature tolerance. What can the organism maintain within it's tolerance zone?
What is homeostasis
pH is a logarithmic scale of ____.
What is hydrogen ions
A cell membrane in humans is composed of a _____.
What is a Phospholipid bilayer.
You break a glass in an experiment, spilling chemicals and glass all over yourself. What should you do first?
What is call the instructor over for assistance, and then remove all soiled clothing.
An omnivore is found at what level of the food web?
What is primary or secondary consumer.
A bees role in pollenating specific plants in an ecosystem is a ____.
What is niche.
What greenhouse gas drives ocean acidification and why?
What is CO2 because it readily bonds with water to form carbonic acid and then loses a H ion (increasing H ions in the system, decreasing pH).
A cell in a hypertonic solution has a _____ solutes within.
What is lower concentration
What piece of glass equipment is used to measure volume?
What is an graduated cylinder or micropipette
An apex predator wouldf be considered a ____.
What is carnivore
Zooxanthellae live inside coral polyps and collect light energy for them and their host. This is an example of a _____.
What is symbiosis- sopecifically mutualism.
Greenhouse gases are necessary for the planets biological community. True or False
What is true
The isotonic point in out potato lab indicated that potato cells were in _____ with the _____ solution.
What is equilibrium, isotonic
If I want to calculate percent change in mass of a sample how would I do this in google spreadsheets?
What is % change = ((B1 - A1) / A1) * 100
If two species of nematode feed on the same resource, and one species eventually dies out this is called ____.
What is competetive exclusion.
What is a keystone species? Give an example
What is a species that determines food web structure and ecosystem function. Pisaster ochraceous, wildebeast, etc.
Thre role of cholesterol in a cell membrane is keeping the cell membrane _____. Hence the nickname the "Fluid Mosaic".
What is flexible.
The diffusion of water through an aquaporin in a cell membrane is an example of _____ transport and _____ diffusion.
What is passive, facilitated
What type of graph should I use to depict daily measurements of growth of plants in different treatments?
What is a line graph
A linear demostration of predator prey dynamics in an ecosystem is called a ____.
What is food chain.
If an aquatic mussel dies and then its shell sinks to the bottom of the lake, turning from sediment into limestone, what is the carbon pathway from gaseous CO2 to the limestone?
What is atmosphere-> hydrosphere -> biosphere -> geosphere.
OR
What is atmosphere-> hydrosphere -> phytoplankton -> mussel -> geosphere
Diffusion moves solutes from and area of high ______ to low __________. Does it always have to occur across a membrane?
What is concentration, no it does not have to occur across a membrane.
Active transport is for molecules that are _____.
What is large or charged.