Unit 1 Vocab.
What is an atom?
What is...
The smallest basic unit of matter
What is an Amino Acid?
What are the....
building blocks of life?
What is a Biome?
Major regional or global areas characterized by their climate and vegetation
What is carrying capacity?
Maximum population size
What is a hypothesis?
What is an....
educated guess?
What is the FDA?
What is the....
United States Food and Drug Administration
What is a Polymer?
A polymer is a large molecule made up of monomers
Where does photosynthesis take place?
What is the..
Stomata
What is the difference between resistance and resilience?
Resistance is the ability of an ecosystem to resist change from a disturbance. Resilience is the ability of an ecosystem to recover after it has undergone a disturbance.
What is...
the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. (or simply the systematic study of the physical and natural would through observation and experiment.)
What is a closed system?
What is...
A system that doesn't allow things in but allows things out
What is the Nucleolus?
What is the...
Ribrosome Maker
What is Qualitive Data?
What is...
data that records the quality
Name a Density-dependent factor.
Answers Include: Predation, Competition, Parasitism and disease
What is a microscope?
What is an....
optical instrument, used for seeing small things?
What is a feedback loop?
What is...
information from one step of a cycle tat act to change the previous step a cycle
What is Exocytosis?
What is the...
release of substances by a vesicle forming with the cell membrane.
What is the Concentration Gradient?
What is the....
difference in the concertation. Molecule diffuse in the concertation gradient.
What is NADPH
What is sodium diphosphate
Which of the following is a characteristic associated with a organism's niche but not with its habitat?
a. climate
b. soil quality
c. place in the food web
d. location within the ecosystem.
What is...
c. place in the food web.
What is an epithelial tissue?
a type of body tissue that forms the covering on all internal and external surfaces of your body
What is pH concentration?
What is...
The level of pH in substances
What is cellular respiration?
What is the....
oxidation of organic compounds?
Definition of Granum
What is.....
Stack of thylakoids.
Explain what the biogeochemical cycles are.
The biogeochemical cycles are the cycles in which a particular chemical moves between the abiotic and biotic factors of the ecosystem.