Earth's Spheres
The sphere of Earth that includes all the layers of gas surrounding the planet.
The process by which organisms change over time.
What is EVOLUTION?
The body system which circulates blood, transporting oxygen and nutrients to your whole body.
What is CIRCULATORY SYSTEM?
The double-stranded "blue-print" molecule that provides the genetic instructions for all living things; passed down from parent to offspring
What is DNA?
What is AUTOTROPHS or PRODUCERS?
The sphere of Earth that includes all the water on Earth's surface, underground, or frozen.
What is HYDROSPHERE?
A trait or behavior that is well suited to a particular environment.
The heart, blood, arteries, and veins are part of this body system.
What is CIRCULATORY SYSTEM?
DNA to mRNA is called _______________, while mRNA to proteins (amino acid sequence) is called __________________________.
What is TRANSCRIPTION and TRANSLATION?
What is HERBIVORES?
ID the 2 spheres: Living organisms breathe out carbon dioxide into the air.
What is BIOSPHERE and ATMOSPHERE?
The process by which organisms better adapted to their environments survive and pass on their traits/behaviors through reproduction, while those that do not naturally have the adaption die off, failing to pass on their traits.
What is NATURAL SELECTION?
The body system that coordinates the body's actions and transmits signals to and from different parts of the body.
What is the NERVOUS SYSTEM?
This process gives rise to genetically identical daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cells.
What is MITOSIS?
The source of all energy in a food chain is _____________________________.
What is THE SUN?
ID the 2 spheres: Wind carries broken down rock particles across far distances, a process known as erosion.
What is GEOSPHERE and ATMOSPHERE?
_____________________ are sometimes called the "raw materials" for natural selection to happen, because without them, genetic variation would not exists, so what kills one organism in a population kills ALL the organisms.
What are MUTATIONS?
ID the two interacting body systems: A human being breathes in oxygen from the atmosphere which diffuses into the bloodstream through tiny air sacks in the lungs. The blood then transports oxygen all around the body.
What is RESPIRATORY and CIRCULATORY SYSTEM?
AKA gamete formation, this process creates 4 daughter cells, each with half the chromosome count of the parent cells.
What is MEIOSIS?
Autotrophs produce glucose by taking in _________, ___________, and __________.
What is SUNLIGHT, WATER, & CO2?
What is HYDROSPHERE and BIOSPHERE? (I will also accept ATMOSPHERE if you said less O2 is released into atmosphere).
Certain species of wolves have evolved to hunt in packs instead of solo. Elijah says that this is because, over time, wolves learned that if they hunted in packs, they would better survive predators. What is wrong with Elijah's statement?
Elijah is describing a learned behavior, which is different from a behavior evolved through natural selection.
The wolves hunt in packs because their parents survived long enough to pass down that behavior to the next generation. The wolves that did not hunt in packs died, so they couldn't pass on the solo-hunting behavior. It was not an intentional choice by the wolves.
ID the 2 body systems:
In the antennae of moths, special receptor pick up scent molecules from mulberry plant leaves. The moths are then able to find and eat the leaves and break down the nutrient molecules into a usable form of energy.
What is NERVOUS SYSTEM & DIGESTIVE SYSTEM?
Transcribe the following DNA segment into mRNA:
AAT GCC CAT TCG TTA
What is
UUA CGG GUA AGC AAU ?
If there was not enough sunlight available to producers, the rate of photosynthesis might decrease. What would happen to the carrying capacity of herbivores? Explain why.
Carrying capacity of organisms would decrease because there will be less food available, so organisms will have to compete for limited resources (meaning not all of them will survive and population size might decrease).