Enzymes
A substance that can affect the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being changed or used up during the reaction
What is a catalyst?
The body makes chemicals that can help tp destroy harmful viruses and bacteria.
What are antibodies?
All of Earth's water, land , and atmosphere within which life exists.
What is the Biosphere?
An earthworm living and reproducing in the soil.
What is an example of a habitat?
A factor which is an interaction between organisms in an ecosystem, such as a plant which is consumed by many species.
What is a biotic factor?
A protein catalyst.
What is an enzyme?
The resistance of the body to a pathogen.
What is immunity?
Three abiotic factors in the biosphere that determine the distribution and types of plant communities?
What are temperature, sunlight, and rainfall.
A diagram of many consumers adapted to use more than one food source in a habitat.
What is a food web?
A physical environment factor in an ecosystem, such as water, temperature, soil and light.
What is an abiotic factor?
High temperature and strong acids or bases can change the shape, and reduce or stop its function.
What is an enzyme?
An example of this dynamic process, where the body makes insulin to control glucose in the blood.
What is homeostasis?
When two different species live in the same area and use the same limited resources.
What is competition?
autotroph--->herbivore--->carnivore
What is an example of a food chain?
Examples of second order consumers in a Fingerlakes' ecosystem food web.
What are cyotes, cougars, birds of prey and snakes?
Optimum temperature for activity of enzymes in humans.
What is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit(37 degrees Celsius) and pH 7 in body fluids and cells.
Can cause a failure of homeostasis in the body.
What is viruses and bacteria (disease.)
The lack of abundant water in a desert is one example of a factor which may prevent a species from thriving.
What is a limiting factor?
The name for an organism that eats dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
Examples of primary consumers in a Fingerlakes' forest ecosystem.
What are mice, seed-eating birds, deer and rabbits.
Enzyme in saliva that breaks down starch.
What is amylase?
E. coli bacteria may produce poisonous chemicals that cause disease in humans.
What are toxins?
The study of organisms in their surrounding environment, including humans.
What is ecology?
The name for organisms that are decomposers.
What are bacteria of decay and fungi.
Examples of decomposers in a Fingerlakes' ecosystem food web.
What are bacteria of decay, protists and fungi (mushrooms)?