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| What are the levels of organization that ecologists study (in order)? |
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| Organism, species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere |
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| How many directions can energy flow through an ecosystem? |
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| One for a food chain, many ways for a food web |
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Fill in the blanks for the direction of energy flow in a food chain:
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| Sun; Autotroph; Primary Consumer; Secondary Consumer |
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| What makes a food web/ecosystem more stable? |
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| The more complex it is, the more stable it is |
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| How does the Water cycle go through an ecosystem? |
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| Precipitation--> Ground water--> Evaporation--> Condensation |
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| How does the Nitrogen Cycle go through an ecosystem? |
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| Atmosphere--> Legumes--> Producers--> Consumers--> Waste--> Atmosphere |
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| How does the Carbon cycle go through the ecosystem? |
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| Atmosphere--> Plants--> Organism--> Human Activity and Volcanoes |
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| What is the difference between a habitat and an animal's niche? |
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Habitat: place where animals lives
Niche: the role the animal plays in the habitat |
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| An organism hunts and consumes another organism |
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| an animal that hunts and eats another organism |
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| an organism that is hunted and eaten |
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| The process of moss breaking down rocks to make soil to grow plants |
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| process where plants grow on soil that has been destroyed from natural disasters |
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| Growth that has 2x the birthrate as death |
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| Growth that reaches equilibrium after exponential growth |
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| The greatest # of individuals that can be supported by a given environment |
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| A factor that causes population growth to decrease: Competition, parasitism |
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| Can be regenerated and replaced |
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| The variety of organisms in a given area |
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| Why is Biodiversity important? |
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| Scientific value and Needed biological resources |
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| Units of measurement for volume, length, mass, and temperature |
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| liter, meter, gram, Fahrenheit and Celsius |
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| Contains a magnifying lens |
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| Maintains the proper distance between the eyepiece and objectives |
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| Moves body tube slightly to sharpen image |
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| Holds the objectives and can be rotated to change magnification |
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| Provides the magnification |
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| Regulates the amount of light passing up toward eye piece |
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| Produces light on the microscope |
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| Moves body tube to focus the image |
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| Supports the slide being observed |
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| What are 5 rules for microscope usage? |
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| Use both hands to carry; keep scope away from edge of table; low power first; When switching objectives, watch for side; Only use fine knob when on High Power |
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| What is the equation to figure out total magnification? |
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| Objective number X Ocular lens = total magnification |
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| What are the 8 characteristics of Living Things? |
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| Made of cells, ability to reproduce, share genetic code, grow and develop, obtain and use materials and energy, respond to the environment, homeostasis, (as a group)evolve over time |
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| Ability to maintain an internal stable environment |
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| What are the Levels of Organization in Biology? |
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| Cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere |
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| Who was the first to see microscopic organisms living in pond water? also blood and sperm |
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| Who discovered cells by looking it cork? |
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| Who was the first to identify and describe the nucleus? |
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| Who was the first to conclude that all animals are made up of cells? |
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| Who was the first to conclude that all plants are made up of cells? |
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| Who realized all cells come from preexisting cells? |
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| What are the 3 parts of the Cell theory? |
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| All living things are made up of cells, cells are the basic unit of structure and function in all organisms, new cells come from preexisting cells |
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| What are cells that only don't have a nucleus called? |
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| What are cells that have a nucleus called? |
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| What are four differences between a plant cell and an animal cell? |
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| Plant cells have a cell wall, large vacuoles, and chloroplasts. Animal cells have lysosomes. |
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| What does a Bilayer lipid look like? What parts are hydrophllic and which parts are hydrophobic? |
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| Movement of molecules from high to low concentration until equilibrium is reached |
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| Diffusion of particles across the membrane with the help of proteins |
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Facilitated Diffusion
(Active Transport) |
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| When water is moving from high to low concentration across a membrane with the help of proteins |
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| Allows somethings to pass through but not others |
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| What is the movement of molecules into the cell that are too large to get through the cell membrane |
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| Moves molecules out of the cell that are too large to diffuse |
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| What does a hypotonic cell do? |
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| What does a hypertonic cell do? |
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| What does an isotonic cell do? |
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| The cell will stay the same |
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| Uses no energy to get materials in and out of the cell |
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| Uses energy to get materials in and out of the cell |
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| Organisms that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use that energy to produce food |
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| Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply |
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| What colors are used in photosynthesis, and what are not? |
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| Red, orange, blue, indigo, and violet are used because they can be absorbed by the plant. Green and yellow are not used because they are reflected by the plant |
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| What is the organelle in a plant cell that performs photosynthesis? |
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| What is an organism that can make its own food? |
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| the chlorophyll in the chloroplasts reflect green, and absorb all the other visible colors of the spectrum |
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| Name two pigments found in chloroplasts: |
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| Chloroplast a and Chloroplast b |
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| Where are pigments found? |
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| Pigments can absorb and reflect certain wavelengths |
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| What do plants need to go through photosynthesis? |
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| Light, water, chlorophyll, and carbon dioxide |
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| What is the equation for photosynthesis? |
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| What is the main biproduct of photosynthesis? |
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| Where does the Light-Dependent Reaction take place in a chloroplast? |
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| What is another name for the Calvin Cycle? |
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| Light-Independent Reaction |
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| What goes into the Calvin Cycle? |
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| What comes out of the Calvin Cycle? |
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| What are the high energy bonds called? |
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| How many high energy bonds are found in an ATP? |
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| What powers the Calvin Cycle? |
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| Where are the best wavelengths of light for photosynthesis found? |
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| the outside of the spectrum |
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| Where are the worst wavelengths of light for photosynthesis found? |
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| the inside of the spectrum |
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| What is the liquid, jelly-like matrix inside the chloroplast? |
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| What is a stack of thylakoid membranes called? |
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| What is a membrane that has space inside that contains chlorophyll? |
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| What is a pigment that functions to capture/absorb light energy? |
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| What is the process by which plants convert/trap sunlight energy into food(glucose) or chemical energy? |
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| What are the names of the two reactions that make up photosynthesis? |
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| Light-dependent and Light-independent(Calvin Cycle) Reactions |
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| Which of the reactants from the photosynthesis equation are important in the light-dependent reaction? |
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| What is the name of the energy "packets" made during the light-dependent reaction? |
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| How is water used during the light-dependent reaction? |
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| Chloroplasts use water's hydrogen molecule to make NADPH |
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| Which of the products for the equation are important in the light-dependent reaction? |
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| Where in the chloroplast does the Calvin Cycle reaction take place? |
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| Which of the reactants from the equation are important in the Calvin Cycle? |
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| Which of the products from the equation are important in the Calvin Cycle? |
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| If you were building a grow chamber for plants, what color of light would work the worst? |
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| What is the name of an organic molecule? |
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| Carbohydrate, lipid, protein, and nucleic acid |
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| What are three different carbohydrates? |
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| monosacharride, disacharride, and polysaccharide |
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| What are carbohydrates made of? |
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| Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |
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| What is the ratio for carbohydrates? |
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| What do carbohydrates usually end with? |
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| What are some ways to use ATP energy? |
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| active transport, provide energy to move 3 sodium ions and 2 potassium ions, powers movement in the cell |
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| What uses the energy released by the flow of hydrogen ions to convert ADP to ATP? |
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| What uses light energy to split water? |
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| What uses light energy to re-energize electrons? |
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| What transfers electrons between light-collecting molecules? |
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| What is the region where hydrogen ions accumulate when water is split? |
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