What is the name given to all of the non-living components of an ecosystem?
100
mutualism
What is the name given to the relationship between two organisms where both benefit from each other ?
100
osmosis
What is the name given to the movement of water molecules across a semi-permeable membrane from an area of high concentration of water to a low concentration of water?
100
transpiration
What is the name given to the evaporation of water from a plants leaves?
100
abundance
What is the name given to the number of organisms found in an ecosystem?
200
biotic
What is the name given to all of the living components of an ecosystem?
200
allelopathy
What is the name given to the process by which plants secrete a chemical substance into the surrounding soil in order to inhibit the growth of other plants?
200
diffusion
What is the name given to the process of minerals and ions moving from an area of high concentration to low concentration?
200
xylem
What is the name of the vascular tube that carries water upwards in plants?
200
transect
What is the name given to the sampling technique involving a long line of measurement where the distribution of organisms is recorded?
300
light, wind, water availability, temperature, salinity
What are some examples of abiotic factors?
300
commensalism
What is the name given to the relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is neither harmed or benefits?
300
fluid-mosaic model
What is the name given to the current accepted model of the cell membrane?
300
diverticulum
What is the name given to the second stomach that nectar-feeding animals possess?
300
the word equation for photosynthesis
carbon dioxide + water > oxygen + glucose
(in the presence of light and chlorophyll)
400
heterotrophs
What is the name for the group of organisms that rely on producers for food?
400
decomposer
What is the name given to the group of organisms that break down dead and decaying matter in order to recycle nutrients in an ecosystem?
400
Robert Hooke
What is the name of the scientist to first identify and name cells?
400
cell wall, large vacuole & chloroplasts
What are the organelles that plant cells possess that animal cells don't?
400
companion cells and sieve tube cells
cells that belong to the phloem tissue in plants
500
viscosity
a measure of the thickness or resistance to flow in air or water etc
500
10% of energy is passed from one ____________ level to another in food pyramids?
tophic
500
palisade mesophyll cells
long cells in leaves of a plant that contain great concentrations of chloroplasts for photosynthesis.
500
cell membranes are made of which 2 substances?
proteins and lipids/fats
500
transpiration pull
What is the name given to the process that's responsible for the upwards movement of water in the xylem of plants from the roots to the leaves?