Ecology
The levels of organization from Biosphere to individual organism.
Biosphere, Biome, Ecosystem, Community, Population, organism.
In the Oh Deer game, water was sometimes in short supply and became this type of abiotic factor.
What is a limiting factor.
Flood protection might be this type of economic value of biodiversity. (Direct or indirect)
What is indirect.
The basic unit of life is the cell.
Cells came from preexisting cells.
All living organisms are composed of cells.
Are all part of this theory.
What is cell theory.
Glycolysis, Krebs cycle and electron transport are stages of this.
What is Cellular Respiration.
The name of the process in which nitrogen is converted into a form that is useable by plants.
What is Nitrogen fixation
An organism that produces thousands of offspring a year would have this type of reproductive strategy.
What is an r-strategy reproductive pattern.
The overharvesting of whales eventually contributed to this loss of this ocean plant life.
What was the Alaskan kelp forest.
The factors that affect the rate of this passive type of cell transport are concentration, pressure and temperature.
What is diffusion.
Water is produced when the electrons leave the ___ ____ _____ and bind to the final electron acceptor in this third part of cellular respiration.
What is the electron transport chain.
The Earth's atmosphere contains 70 percent of this element.
What is nitrogen.
A drought would be considered to be a density- (independent or dependent) factor?
What is density independent factor.
Some scientists believe that we are in the middle of a ______ extinction because the extinction rate is 1,000 time the normal background extinction rate.
What is a mass extinction.
The mighty mitochondria is sometimes called the ___________ plant of the cell.
What is the power plant.
Glycolysis is the part of cellular respiration that does not take place in the mitochondria. Glycolysis takes place in the _________ of the cell.
What is the cytoplasm.
Carbon dioxide and Oxygen are considered waste products for these two major life processes.
What are Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis.
The relatively quick spread of disease might be caused by a population that has _______population density. (high or low?)
What is high population density.
Destruction, disruption, fragmentation and pollution are ways that this might be lost for animals.
What is their habitat.
Autotrophs/heterotrophs depend on other organisms as a source of organic compounds.
What are heterotrophs.
The Calvin Cycle (phase 2 of photosynthesis) uses energy provided by ATP and NADPH which are produced in this first part of photosynthesis.
What are the light reactions.
A large geographic area with similar climate and communities.
What is a biome.
The dispersion pattern of a population of birds that flock together.
What is clumped.
When there are a variety of species in an ecosystem there is this type of diversity.
Species diversity.
Part of the food chain that provides energy to one other part of the food chain.
What are photoautotrophs.
The main source of chemical energy that cells store and release.
What is ATP.