Scientific Method
Ecology
Ecology Part II
Energy
Cells
100

What is the variable that the scientist changes in an experiment?

Independent variable

100

Food chains and food webs show how this flows through a system.

Energy

100

What is a close permanent relationship between two species?  

Symbiosis

100

What is a pigment that organisms need to perform photosynthesis?

Cholorphyll

100

What kind of cells have a membrane bound nucleus and other internal organelles?

eukaryotic

200
What is a trial that will work exactly as expected and can be used for comparison?

a control

200

What is the name of a step in the food chain.

trophic level

200

What is a relationship where both organisms benefit?

Mutualism

200
What is the energy that is released in cellular respiration?

ATP

200

What cells no NOT have a nucleus?

bacteria

300

What core characteristic is how organisms obtain energy.  It includes eating and breathing.

Metabolism

300

Only 10% of available energy is transferred at each step of a food chain.  The rest is given off as what?

Heat

300

What is a relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed?

Parasitism

300

What is another word for a food molelcule where energy is stored?

glucose

300

What makes energy ATP for the cell?

Mitochondria

400

What core characteristic is the maintenance of a stable environment inside the body?

metabolism

400

What is primary succession?

Only rock remains.

400

What is a relationship which benefits one species and the other is unaffected?

Commensalism

400

If a cell does not have oxygen, it will use what to keep going?

Fermentation

400

What breaks down food and wastes in the cell?

Lysosome

500

What is the genetic code of all living things?

DNA

500

What is secondary succession?

Soil remains.
500

What is logistic growth?

The population increases rapidly and then levels off as it reaches carrying capacity.

500

What are products of photosynthesis?

Glucose and oxygen

500

What transports substances outside of the cell?

Golgi