Popular Populations
If a predator is introduced, the carrying capacity of a population would do what?
What is Decrease?
This is the gas that is an output of photosynthesis
What is oxygen?
The heart is part of this organ system
What is circulatory?
This is the function of the leaf
What is absorb light or photosynthesis?
If you give your Valentine chocolate, watch out for this phase change
What is melting?
If the amount of food increases, what would be the effect on carrying capacity?
What is increase?
This is the gas that is the input of photosynthesis
What is carbon dioxide or CO2?
Some organisms such as mountain lions travel hundreds of miles to find a mate. This is known as
What is dispersion?
What are the 2 functions of roots?
Anchor and absorb water/nutrients
Give your Valentine a diamond, which is made only of this element
What is carbon?
Can the population ever go over the carrying capacity?
Yes, but it will fall back down.
This is the main product of photosynthesis which the plant can use for cellular respiration
What is glucose?
Name 2 pollinators that help make flowers that you can give your Valentine
Bees, hummingbirds, butterflies
What is the function of the flower in plants?
Sexual reproduction
What is the effect of eating Valentine's day chocolate on your insulin levels?
Your blood sugar will rise so you will release MORE insulin to let that glucose into the cells
What type of growth did humans experience during the Industrial revolution? Linear, Exponential, or Logarithmic?
What is exponential growth?
This is a byproduct of photosynthesis, but we humans find it useful
What is oxygen?
Sexual reproduction is favored in evolution because it increases...
What is genetic variation or genetic diversity?
Name 2 ways plants DISPERSE their seeds far from their mother plant
Fruit, Catching the wind, and Sticking to an animal
On Valentine's Day many new lives are brought into existence as the sperm fertilizes the egg and a single cell with 46 chromosomes is formed. This cell is called...
What is a zygote?
Draw a graph of human population from the stone age to the industrial revolution to the future - what is it shaped like?
Like the letter S - slow, then fast, then slow again reaching a plateau
This is the name of the organelle that actually performs photosynthesis
What is the chloroplast?
Some organisms without a Valentine have to resort to this, through budding, fragmentation, or binary fission
What is asexual reproduction?
What are the two types of transport in the stem? Closest spelling wins!
Xylem and Phloem
When you see your crush, you have to "play it cool" so that your body systems will have to maintain their normal levels. This is known as
What is homeostasis?