Ology and Energy
The study of life
What is biology?
Organisms that eat only organisms OTHER than plants
What is carnivores?
anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
organisms that produce their own food and are autotrophs
What are producers?
a group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life.
What is a biome?
The study of the interaction between living and non living things
What is ecology?
Organisms that eat only plants
What is herbivore?
The number of protons in an atom- unique to each type of atom
What is atomic number?
organisms that eat living producers and or other consumers for food
What are consumers?
the two categories of biomes
What are land (terrestrial) and water (aquatic)?
The smallest units of an organism considered a live
What is cell?
Omnivore
What is an organism that eats plants and other organisms?
Chemical that results when two or more atoms join together chemically
What is a molecule?
the chemical that makes up 78% of our air
What is nitrogen?
the terrestrial biome with the most rainfall
What is tropical rainforest?
The sum total of all processes in an organism that convert energy and matter from outside sources and use that energy and matter to sustain the organism's life functions.
What is metabolism?
Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food
What is a heterotroph?
An attractive force that holds molecules or the same substance together
What is cohesion?
Evaporation of water from the leaves of plants
What is transpiration?
a biome with a climate that receives less than 6 inches of rain and has mainly nocturnal animals
What is desert?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Organisms that are able to make their own food
What is an autotroph?
An attractive force that holds molecules of DIFFERENT substances together
What is adhesion?
What is the phosphorus cycle?
the subarctic biome with extreme cold
What is taiga or boreal forest?