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What is?
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100
What are the two types of reproduction?
Sexual, asexual
100
What is the process in which two or more monomers combine?
Polymerization
100
What is the definition of climate?
The average weather conditions of a region over a long period of time.
100
What is a food web?
A network of interconnected food chains showing how energy and nutrients flow through an ecosystem.
100
What are four non-human factors of global climate change?
Natural Forest fires, Volcanos, Greenhouse Gases, Continental drift, and Ocean currents.
100
The higher the pH the more ________ (acidic/ alkaline) it is
Alkaline
200
What determines inherited traits?
DNA
200
The energy required to get a reaction started is called what?
Activation energy
200
What is a biotic Factor?
A living or once-living part of an ecosystem that affects other organisms.
200
What is the definition of carrying capacity?
The maximum number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support.
200
Name four density-dependent limiting factors.
Overcrowding
Parasitism
Disease
Competition
Predation
200
The lower the pH the more ________ (acidic/ alkaline) it is
Acidic
300
What is the combination of chemical reactions in an organism called?
Metabolism
300
Most proteins act as ________
Enzymes
300
What is an abiotic factor?
A nonliving physical or chemical part of the environment, such as sunlight or water.
300
What is the definition of immigration.
When individuals move into a population's range.
300
Name four density independent limiting factors
Wildfires
Hurricanes
Droughts
Floods
300
According to the age diagram below, what population(s) is/ are growing?
Niger is growing, one could say that the US is growing too, just very slowly.
400
What kinds of molecules is water considered to be?
Polar molecules
400
Reactants of enzyme-catalyzed reactions are called _______
Substrates
400
What is a trophic level?
a step in a food chain or food web that shows an organism’s feeding position in an ecosystem.
400
What is a limiting factor?
Any factor that controls the growth of a population (nutrients, space, competition, etc.)
400
How are invasive species typically introduced into an ecosystem?
Invasive species are typically introduced into ecosystems by humans.
400
Observe the food web below. Use the space below to form three predictions on what would happen if the everglades crayfish was removed from the web.
This question has more than one correct answer. Be sure to comment on how it may affect other trophic levels. What the organism consumes, and what consumes that organism. If the organism is predated on, what effect would it have on the predator? Would the predator have to prey on another organism? Will it affect the population of the “other” organisms?
500
What kinds of bonds appear between molecules of H2O
Hydrogen bonds
500
True or false: The greenhouse effect describes the trapping of the earth's internal heat, keeping it from being lost to space.
False
500
What is a food chain?
A series of organisms in which energy is transferred from one organism to another.
500
What is the definition of emigration?
When individuals move out of a population's range.
500
Put the following into order of least complex to most complex:
Community
Population
Biome
Ecosystem
Biosphere
Species
Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, and Biosphere