Cells
Are viruses living or nonliving?
Nonliving
Include fatty, waxy, or oily compounds
Lipids
Name the three biogeochemical cycles we learned about.
Water, carbon, nitrogen.
Intestinal bacteria obtain nutrients from the gut and produce vitamin K, which is used by humans. What sort of relationship is this?
Mutalism
The rocky material left behind by a retreating glacier form what is called a moraine. When primary succession occurs on a moraine, which life-forms will help create the soil by breaking down bare rock?
Lichen
Where is the genetic material found in bacteria?
Cytoplasm
Include sugar and starches
Carbohydrates
What organisms feed on dead or decaying materials?
Decomposers
Name this relationship: A lion stalks, captures, and eats a buffalo.
Which form of succession has greater species diversity at the beginning?
What are two organelles that plant cells have that animal cells do not
cell wall & chloroplasts
Involved in the growth and repair of muscles
proteins
How do consumers take in carbon?
From the food they eat.
Name the relationship: A tapeworm enters the digestive track of a human and consumes the nutrients in the intestines so they are not available for the human.
Parasitism
Which form of succession occurs in an area that has never been occupied by living things?
Primary succession
Name the 4 things that all cells have
Nucleic acids
How do plants reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere?
Plants absorb carbon in the process of photosynthesis
Name the relationship: A green anole and a brown anole use the same resources to survive in a vacant yard near a pond.
Competition
What is the pioneer species in secondary succession
Grasses and weeds
If a cell has a very large number of ribosomes attached to its rough endoplasmic reticulum, what is the cell probably specialized to manufacture?
Proteins
Which biomolecule is responsible for long term energy storage?
Lipids
Other than with the help of bacteria, what is another way nitrogen can be fixed?
Lightning!
Name this relationship: A cattle eagret follows cattle around and eats the bugs that the cattle stirs up as it moves, but the cattle are unaffected.
Commensalism
A logger clears a forest and the forest re-grows over many subsequent years. Which type of succession represents the regrowth of this forest?
Secondary succession