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Bromley Class Six Review
Vocabulary for 6 Biology, mostly botany
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Biology
6th Grade
10/25/2012

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sperm
Definition
male gametes
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zygote
Definition
a fertilized egg
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stomates
Definition
openings in leaf
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chloroplast
Definition
site of photosynthesis
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glucose
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a product of photosynthesis
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xylem
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carries water from roots to shoots, also becomes wood
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phloem
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carries sugar water, up or down depending on season.
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vascular
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has xylem and phloem
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mitochondria
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burns glucose and oxygen to make ATP and co2
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pollen tube
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grown by pollen from stigma to ovules
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ATP
Definition
made in mitochondria from glucose and oxygen
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flower parts
Definition
learn them! You will have to label one and tell what each part does
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pollination
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have a look at the chart- given a flower type, can you predict what pollinates it?
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water
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what carries it up to the leaves from the roots?
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mutualism
Definition
both species benefit
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commensalism
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One benefits, other not harmed or benefitted
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parasitism
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+ -
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competition
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both harmed
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A scientific name
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Genus and species, both underlined, genus capitalized
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big eyes skull
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probably nocturnal
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eyes in front
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predator
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flat teeth, jaw moves sideways
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herbivore
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cheek teeth slice
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carnivore
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foramen magnum straight out
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swimmer or crawler
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foramen magnum angled down
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quadruped
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one bone lower jaw
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mammal
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different kinds of teeth
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mammal
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Ruminants
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rechews plant matter, bacteria digest cell walls
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elements of food chains
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producers, consumers and decomposers
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Wall animals
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Know them! See slides.
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carnivores
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short gut, not much energy at top of food chain.
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biomagnification
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certain poisons become more concentrated as you move up the food chain: DDT
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real circle of life
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relationship between chloroplasts and mitochondria
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cell wall
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in plants, becomes wood
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hummingbirds
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pollinate red, tubular flowers
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flies
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pollinate red, stinky flowers
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name three introduced animals in utah
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Carp, starling, pigeons, tamarisk, house sparrow
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cell membrane
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selectively permeable
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chloroplast, mitochondria
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self replicating, may have once been prokaryotes, have own DNA
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Antlers are...
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shed and forked on usually only on males
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horns are
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not shed, found on both sexes
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Caribou, Deer and moose have horns
Definition
That is really stupid. They have antlers
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Can you identify the animals on the front wall in my classroom? North american only
Definition
Pronghorn, both deer, moose, caribou, elk, Turkey, T rex, walrus. Look at the powerpoint.
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Herbivores eat
Definition
plants, you toolbox
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autotrophs can feed themselves. That means they
Definition
can photosynthesize
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Which organelles make glucose
Definition
chloroplasts
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Where does the CO2 end up after it goes through a chloroplast
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in glucose
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How do mitochondria relate to chloroplasts
Definition
Mitochondria make ATP and C02 from glucose and oxygen.
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Where does the oxygen in the air come from?
Definition
From water. Plants split it and the H part goes into glucose.
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heterotroph
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must EAT food
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decomposer
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eats dead stuff, recycles matter
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Do you know all seven classification categories in order?
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Kingdom, phylum, class ,order, family, genus, species
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Write a scientific name correctly
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Capitalize the genus, not the species and underline both
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Energy flows,
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matter cycles
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mutualism
Definition
both benefit: oxpeckers and antelope, cleaner fish, and lots of others
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predation, parasitism
Definition
one benefits, the other is harmed
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plants absorb water through their
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roots
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Who was Linnaeus?
Definition
He organized living things into 7 categories and invented binomial nomenclature (two names for each organism)
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Anther
Definition
Where pollen is made
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pollinates tube shaped,light, open at night?
Definition
Moths
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First land plants?
Definition
ferns
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most common introduced bird
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starling
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these pipes move water
Definition
xylem
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made in chloroplast
Definition
glucose, oxygen
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follows order
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family
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first with seeds
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gymnosperms
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There will be a few skulls to analyze

Definition
So review characteristics of 4 legged, 2 legged and swimmers. Is it predator or prey? What is a foramen magnum?
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Review your pollination chart
Definition

What pollinates:

red tubular

white tubular

red, stinky

no petals, nectar

etc.

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What did ferns invent?
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Plumbing: xylem and phloem
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What does fruit do?
Definition
Protects and distributes the seeds
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10% rule
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Only 10% of calories is available to next food chain level. Where does the 90% go? Runs animal, heat, feces
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Foramen magnum
Definition
Hole in skull where spinal cord leaves
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occipital condyle
Definition
Mammals have two, reptiles and bird have one. They are on both sides of the foramen magnum
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Parts of a seed
Definition
embryo (wheat germ) Seed coat (bran) Endosperm (white flour)
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pollen tube
Definition
carries sperm from stigma to ovule
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low on the food chain
Definition
is more efficient
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deer, cows
Definition
no teeth on front of top jaw
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mitochondria only
Definition
animal cells
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Algae
Definition
multicellular aquatic plants
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Class
Definition
follows phylum
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sporangia
Definition
makes spores in fungi
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mycelium
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body of a fungus
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external digestion
Definition
how fungi feed
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maple syrup
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concentrated phloem
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spores
Definition
how fungi reproduce
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cell walls
Definition
plants have them, fungi too
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orbit
Definition
bone around eye
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CaSPONCH
Definition
elements in living things, must be cycled. What do they stand for?
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