Earth's Systems: Weather
The process by which clouds release water
What is precipitation?
These components that make up all living organisms.
What are cells?
The body system built for protection and movement that is composed of bones, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments.
What is the skeletal system?
Traits that are passed from parent to offspring.
What are inherited traits?
Algae, seaweed, grass, trees, vines, cacti, bushes, and flowers are all within this trophic level in a food model.
What is a producer?
Water in its gaseous state.
What is water vapor?
The main distinction between unicellular and multicellular organisms.
What is unicellular organisms are made up a single cell and carry out all of its functions while multicellular organisms have specialized cells with different roles and functions?
The two ways digestion can occur.
What is chemically and mechanically?
Traits that are a result of an organism's experiences or the environmental factors.
What are acquired traits?
Saprotrophs can be described as this type of organism.
What is a decomposer?
The transition zone where a warm air mass replaces a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
These are the life processes that make up the acronym MRS. GREN.
What are:
Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition
The relationship between the respiratory and circulatory systems.
What is the exchange of oxygen and carbon-dioxide within the circulatory system?
A pianist has bleached blonde hair, a scar on her left cheek, an blue eyes. This is her inherited trait.
What are her blue eyes?
This is a food chain that includes grass, a grasshopper, and a bird.
grass → grasshopper → bird
This organism can be described as a herbivore and primary consumer.
What is the grasshopper?
This phenomena is most responsible for the changes in seasons.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
The division of labor, or the order of how organisms are composed.
What is cell → tissue → organ → organ system → organism
This system serves as the control and communication network of the body.
What is the nervous system?
The reason siblings have similar physical traits.
They have the same genes from one or both parents.
A food chain in a temperature deciduous forest ecosystem includes blackberry bushes, deer, and wolves.
blackberry bush → deer → wolf
Deer eat blackberries.
Wolves eat deer.
If the wolves experienced a decrease in population, blackberry bushes would see this result.
What is an decrease in the blackberry bush due to an increase in the deer population--directly resulting from a decrease of the wolf population?
The result of Earth's rotation on weather patterns and ocean currents, this effect makes storms swirl clockwise in the Southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is The Coriolis Effect?
The reason cells create transport systems.
What is because cells are too far away from the outside to exchange substances.
The similarity between the digestive and circulatory systems.
What is the absorption of gases and nutrients into the body?
A mother rabbit has a litter where one of her babies is born with one long ear and one short ear. This is the most likely result of the baby's short ear.
What is a genetic mutation?
The most likely result for an ecosystem if all of its decomposers were to be completely removed.
The plants within the ecosystem would die due to a lack of nutrients in the soil necessary for photosynthesis.