Chapter 3/4
The interaction of animals in a habitat
(can be positive or negative!!)
Symbiosis
What are pheromones?
A chemical released for communication and to attract a mate
how do frogs conserve energy (in the summer ☀️ and winter ❄️)
they estivate and hibernate
List the three muscle types
Skeletal muscle, Smooth muscle, Cardiac muscle
the body uses oxygen in tissues to release energy from what
Glucose
Name the Biome:
has 2 seasons, cooler temperature, moderate precipitation. Evergreen and wolverines live here.
Coniferous Forest
What are the 6 animal attributes?
Nutrition, respiration, circulatory support reproduction and movement
scale vs scutes
scales: produced by epidermis, smoother, more flexible, gets shed (think snake)
scutes: produced by dermis, hard, protective shell, stays forever (think alligator)
This is the outermost layer of skin made of epithelial tissue
The epidermis
oxygenated blood leaves the left ventricle through what
the aorta
What is primary succession?
This type of succession begins where no soil exists.
List some differences that set arthropods apart from sponges, cnidarians, mollusks, worms, and echinoderms.
-They have an exoskeleton while the other five groups have an endoskeleton.
-They have jointed appendages for movement while the others don't.
What characteristic do all mammals have?
Covered in fur/hair
Produce milk via mammary glands
This is the most common type of tissue in the body and includes bone blood lymph tendons fat and cartilage
Connective tissue
which organ stores bile produced by the liver until the small intestine needs it?
The gallbladder
What is bioremediation?
Bioremediation is a process that uses living things, like bacteria or plants, to clean up pollution in the environment.
Which of the following are chelicerates? List all that apply.
Lobster
Scorpion
Tick
Spider
Red crab
Spider crab
Horseshoe crab
Scorpion, Tick, Spider, and Horseshoe Crab
The rest are examples of crustaceans.
What is the keel bone?
A bone at the chest of a bird that provides balance and enables them to fly
Describe how a muscle contracts
The myosin filaments in your muscle pull on the actin filaments, when the nerve impulses end the myosin filaments stop pulling and return to their original shape
Whats the difference between how steroid and nonsteroid hormones enter cells?
steroid just passes through the cell membrane
nonsteroid stay outside the cell and use second messengers to do their work