Characteristics of Life
Energy & Matter
Ecology
Vocab.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary pt 2
Miscellaneous
100

Made of cells

What is the basic building block of living things?

100

Autotrophs use carbon dioxide to produce glucose.

What is Absorption/Photosynthesis?

100

a group of organisms of the same ________ living in the same 

What is population?

100

Gets food/energy from other organisms. 

What is heterotroph/consumer?

100

Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changes form

What is law of conservation of matter?

100

Your answer. Your proof . Your scientific explanation.

What is claim-evidence-reasoning?

200

Reproduction 

What is making more of the same kind of organism?

200

Process that releases carbon dioxide as a waste product while breaking down glucose for energy.

What is Respiration?

200

When one (1) species is removed affecting all other levels. (Often a keystone species.)

What is trophic cascade?

200

A living thing.

What is an organism?

200
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.

What is the law of conservation energy?

200

An animal that eats producers.

What is primary consumer?

300

Respond to their environment

What is the way an organism reacts to stimulus?

300

Herbivores consume carbon dioxide by eating plants. That carbon is passed up the food chain when the herbivore is eaten by a predator.

What is consumption?

300

A very important specie. An animal or plant that makes an ecosystem fall apart and become unhealthy if taken away.

What is keystone species?

300

Makes its own food (usually through sunlight)

What is autotroph/producer?

300

An organism (consumer) that ONLY eats animals/meat.

What is a carnivore?

300

Animals that eat primary consumers.

What is secondary consumer?

400

Organisms get bigger in size and also go through change in their lifetime.

What is grow and develop?

400

A dead animal (or plant) is broken down and the carbon is returned back into the soil.

What is Decomposition?

400

A plant or animal that is not-native to a specific locatio. It spreads quickly.

What is invasive species?

400

Two parents, the offspring is a mix of both parents. EX: animals, people.

What is sexual reproduction?

400

Produce glucose (C6H12O6) with energy from the sun. Plants only?autotrophs.

What is photosynthesis?

400

Top predators. (lions, eagles, sharks, etc.)

What is tertiary consumer?

500

The power it gives a living thing in order to do work. Gets energy by other plants to make food.

What is use energy and materials?

500

Fossil fuels are burned to heat homes, drive cars, etc.

What is Combustion?

500
The largest number of individuals of one species an ecosystem can support.

What is carrying capacity?

500

One parent, the offspring is identical to the parent. EX: amoebas, starfish, mold

What is asexual reproduction?

500

Converts glucose (C6H12O6) into ATP (energy) using oxygen.

What is respiration?

500

They are opposites. Inputs for photosynthesis = outputs for cellular respiration.

What is the relationship between cellular respiration and photosynthesi?

600

Instructions in our body to help us grow and function.

What is has DNA/generic code?

600

Part of Earth where life exists including land, water, and air.

What is biosphere?

600

Things that limit how big/large a population can grow.Ex: food, water, disease, predators,etc.

What is limiting factors?

600
An organism that breaks down dead things.

What is decomposed?

600

In only plants. In process of photosynthesis 

What are chloroplasts?

600

Earth’s way of recycling carbon through:

atmosphere → living things → soil → oceans → rocks → back to atmosphere


What is the carbon cycle?

700

Control internal self and keep stable.

What is maintain homeostasis?

700

A community of living things interacting with each other and their environment.

What is ecosystem?

700

An action or behavior that a species takes in order to survive  better.

What is behavioral adaptation?

700

An organism (consumer) that only eats PLANTS.

What is herbivore?
700

In both plants and animals. In the process of cellular respiration.

What is the mitochondria?

700

Released energy.

What is ADP?

800

Over many generations , living things change.

What is evolution?

800

A visual representation of feeding relationships and energy flow in an ecosystem.

What is the food chain?

800

J-shaped curve. Growth without limits. Population will grow super fast.

What is exponential population growth?

800
An organism that eats BOTH plants and animals.

What is an omnivore?

800

Things that go in and things that go out.

What are reactants and products?

800

Energy cells use to survive.

What is the role of ATP?