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Biology 101
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100

The study of weather

What is meteorology?

100

The study of the Earth's oceans and ocean floor

What is oceanography?

100

Anything that has mass and takes up space

What is matter?

100

A push or pull exerted on an object in an effort to change that object's velocity

What is force?

100

The smallest unit of life in creation

What is a cell?

100

The study of living organisms

What is biology?

100

The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experimentation in order to formulate general laws

What is science?

100

List the 6 Kingdoms

Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia
200

Moisture falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, or hail

What is precipitation?

200

The ocean floor is filled with ______ and _______.

Mountains, trenches
200

Basic states of matter

What are solid, liquid, and gas?

200

The rate at which an object moves

What is speed?

200

A method of sorting things according to shared qualities or characteristics

What is classification?

200

Consisting of more than one cell

What is multicellular?

200

Early scientist and first to complete a description of planets and stars

Who was Ptolemy?

200

List the 6 Criterion for Life

1. Contain hereditary info in their DNA 2. Use energy 3. Respond to stimuli/changes in environment 4. Made up of cells 5. Maintain homeostasis 6. Grow

300

A force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules

What is air pressure?

300

Large river-like streams of ocean water created by winds, varying water densities, and the rotation of the Earth

What are currents?

300

The smallest chemical unit of matter

What is an atom?

300

The scientist who developed the laws of motion

Who is Newton?

300

An organism that breaks down the dead remains of other organisms

What is a decomposer?

300

Complex molecules that are involved in nearly every reaction that supports life. Made up of amino acids.

What are proteins?

300

This scientist developed a picture of what an atom looks like

Who is Neils Bohr?

300

List the classification divisions in order

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

400

The boundary where a warm mass of air meets a cold mass of air

What is a front?

400

A rhythmic back-and-forth motion of water that transfers energy without any overall change in direction of the water mass

What are waves?

400

A substance that contains different compounds and/or elements

What is a mixture?

400

The law of inertia - an object in motion (or at rest) will tend to stay in motion (or at rest) until it is acted upon by an outside force

What is Newton's first law?

400

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food

What is photosynthesis?

400

One of the main sources of food energy for most animals and are made up of simple sugars

What are carbohydrates?

400

An explanation of the natural world that has been thoroughly tested and is supported by a significant amount of evidence

What is a scientific theory?

400

Write out the general formula for cellular respiration

Glucose sugar + oxygen --> energy + carbon dioxide + water

500

Conditions of the atmosphere in a region over relatively long periods of time

What is climate?

500

Massive waves created by an underwater earthquake or volcanic explosion

What are tsunamis?

500

The temperature at which a liquid becomes gas

What is the boiling point?

500

The speed of an object in a given direction

What is velocity?

500

How many domains are there in our classification system?

Three (bonus points for naming them)

500

These are an efficient way to store food energy and are made up of fatty acids

What are lipids?

500

The variable of part of an experiment to which all other variables will be compared

What is the control?

500

These two ocean invertebrates are part of the phylum ___________. 

Cnidaria

600

The three major cloud types

What are cumulus, stratus, and cirrus?

600

Ocean water movement resulting from the gravitational pull of the Moon and the sun

What are tides?

600

A change that affects the type of molecules or atoms in a substance

What is a chemical change?

600

Newton's 3rd law

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
600

This cell has no distinct membrane-bound organelles

What is a prokaryotic cell?

600

Organisms that obtain their nourishment from dead organisms

What are saprophytes?

600

This test determines the time span between copies and number of copies of a document

What is the bibliographic test?

600

Name the 4 large ocean basins

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic

700

The two main gases in our atmosphere

What are nitrogen and oxygen?

700

A major physical feature that all mollusks have; a layer of tissue that covers the soft body 

What is a mantle?

700

Identify if physical or chemical change: shredding paper into small pieces

Physical

700

A device that either multiplies or redirects force

What is a simple machine?

700

This cell has a membrane-bound nucleus

What is a eukaryotic cell?

700

These are the most complex molecules of life, involved in the creation, repair, and reproduction of proteins.

What are nucleic acids?
700

When the Earth is between the Moon and the sun so that it casts a complete shadow on the Moon

What is a lunar eclipse?

700

Label the marked organelles of this eukaryotic cell

Nucleus, ribosomes, mitochondrian, Golgi body, lysosome, vacuole

800

Which of the following is NOT one of the air properties meteorologists use to help predict weather?

temperature, pressure, humidity, wind direction, radiation

Radiation

800

This organism is designed with a base of 5 radiating parts

What is an echinoderm?

800

When atoms share electrons

What is a covalent bond?

800

F = m x a

What is Newton's 2nd Law?

800

A Latin-based naming system

What is binomial nomenclature?

800

Carries water and dissolved material throughout plants

What is vascular tissue?

800

Name the major layers of Earth

crust, inner core, outer core, mantle

800

Name the function of the previous organelles of the Eukaryotic cell

Ribosomes - make proteins; Mitochondria - make energy; Vacuoles - storage; Golgi bodies - store and alter proteins and lipids; Lysosomes - hold enzymes; Nucleus - control center, DNA

900

The term ENSO stands for:

El Nino-Southern Oscillation

900

An example of a cartilaginous fish

What is a shark?

900

A bond formed when ions are attracted to each other

What is an ionic bond?

900

List 2 forces from your text

Gravitational force, strong force, electromagnetic force

900

Give an example of how the body regulates itself

Sweating, adjusting breathing rate, or adjusting heart rate

900

The trees that lose their leaves in the fall

What are deciduous trees?

900

The study of Earth's physical structure, its history, the processes acting on it, and the rocks of which it is compared

What is geology?

900

What is this cycle called? Label the phases.

The hydrologic cycle

evaporation, condensation, precipitation

1000

List the 5 layers of the atmosphere, in order from closest to earth up to outer space

What are: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere

1000

The gas-filled sac in bony fishes that allows them to remain at a certain depth without moving

What is an air bladder?

1000

Atoms with an overall charge

What are ions?
1000

Which beam of reflected light is correct?

B

1000

List the 6 criterion for life

1. Contain hereditary info in their DNA

2. Use energy

3. Respond to stimuli/changes in environment

4. Made up of cells

5. Maintain homeostasis

6. Grow

1000

The major location where photosynthesis occurs in plants

What are the leaves?

1000

The boundary line between two plates

What is a fault?

1000

How do clouds form?

As a result of warm air cooling off. Bonus - name the 4 ways: fog (moist air cools down by the ground at night); convection (warm air rises, cools, and the water vapor condenses); frontal (wind blows warm, moist air on top of cooler, drier air; mountain (moves along ground up the side of a mountain)