DNA/RNA
Stability and Changes in Ecosystems
Cycling of Matter and Energy
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
Classifying Organisms
100
The shape of DNA.
What is double helix?
100
A biological community of interacting organisms.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Look at the energy pyramid below. For each level up from the primary producer, the organism will lose this much available energy.
What is 10%?
100
This process occurs in the mitochondria of a cell.
What is cellular respiration?
100
Organism are classified according to this
What is the Linnaean System of Classification?
200
The nitrogenous base that pairs with A in DNA and the nitrogenous base that pairs with C in DNA. (2 letters)
What is T and what is G?
200
Description of a population that is growing rapidly
What is exponential growth?
200
The arrows in a food chain point in the direction of this.
What is energy flow?
200
This is the chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
200
The 8 levels of classification
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
300
The 3 parts of a DNA and RNA strand.
What is sugar, phosphate group, and nitrogenous base?
300
Description of when a population's growth slows or stops after a period of exponential growth
What is logistic growth?
300
The three different kinds of consumers.
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary.
300
This is the organelle where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
300
The correct way of addressing or writing an organism's scientific name.
What is Genus(capitalized) and species(lowercased)?
400
The bond that holds DNA together.
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
These types factors limit the carrying capacity of a species. (Not specific - broad term)
What are limiting factors?
400
These 4 important biogeochemical cycles are how various elements and compounds cycle through the Earth.
What are the carbon cycle, water cycle, phosphorous cycle, and nitrogen cycle?
400
During cellular respiration, glucose and oxygen get taken into the mitochondria. The mitochondria then produces the following 3 products: carbon dioxide, water, and energy, or ATP. ATP stands for this.
What is adenosine triphosphate?
400
The name of this diagram to help identify organisms.
What is dichotomous key?
500
The nitrogenous base in RNA that pairs with adenine.
What is uracil?
500
The succession of a community that is completely grown and healthy after a natural disaster.
What is climax community?
500
This invasive organism, common in Virginia, especially southwest Virginia, is a vine-like plant that grows on practically everything and kills trees and other plants by starving them of sunlight.
What is kudzu?
500
The chemical formula (symbols) for photosynthesis.
What is 6H2O + ATP (Sunlight Energy) +6CO2= (yields) C6H12O6 + 6O2
500
The meaning of the phylum chordata.
What is chordate - has a backbone?