bio Flashcards
The most important greenhouse gases are:
CO2, methane, water vapor
Abiotic components of an ecosystem include
Never living things (rocks,air)
Which trophic level could humans exist at?
Primary Consumer, Tertiary consumer
Which of the following needs phosphorous in addition to carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen?
Nucleic acids
Publication is necessary in science to:
help spread knowledge and enable others to test your results
Carbon has ___ valence electrons which means it can make ___ bonds (usually covalent):
4, 4
Which of the following is an error in the following food web ecosystem?
All tropic levels aren’t represented
Carbon dioxide levels are probably climbing worldwide because:
Burning fossil fuels
Two species (like a native and an invasive one) occupying the same niche will interact through
Competition
A theory is
supported by repeated tests
Water
Has 2 poles one positive and one negative
Metabolism
All the chemical reactions, especially those that use energy, in an organism
Ecology
Studies interactions between community members and the environement
Niche
The specific ‘job’ a species fills in its habitat
Producer
The largest trophic level in an ecosystem
Symbiosis
A close association between two different species- one is always helped, the other might be harmed
Population
Individuals in the same area and members of the same species
Comensalism
Relationship where one partner isn’t affected, some biologists say it cant exist
Cohesion
When combined with adhesion this allows water to climb against gravity (capillary action)
Hormones
These released into the environment are leading to fish developing incorrectly and sterile
Most organisms get their energy directly or indirectly from the sun
True
60% of energy is available to organisms at the next trophic level (40% is lost as heat)
False
Pasteur showed spontaneous generation isn’t real by proving broth didn’t spoil in a flask with a bent mouth
True
Continents can affect climate by redirecting wind and ocean currents
True
Experiment might have many independent variables, but only one should be manipulated
True
The arctic is cooler than the tropics because of the angle the sunlight strikes on earth
True
We get the nitrogen we need to build proteins and amino acids by breathing in air (78% nitrogen)
false
Greenhouse gasses block light energy, but allow heat energy through
False
Mobile living things can respond to their environment, but immobile plants and fungi cannot
False
An invasive species is usually a native plant or animal that out competes or otherwise harms other species
False
Boreal Forest (Taiga)
Conifer forest with long winters covering much of Canada, Europe, and Asia
Frost wedging
Helps primary succession as freezing water splits rock
Amino acid
Smaller molecules (monomer) proteins are made of
Tundra
Low rainfall, short plants, cold year round with permafrost layer
Inference
Making broad interpretations based on specific experiences
Overharvesting
removing species faster than they are replaced through reproduction - unsustainable
secondary succession
In Ohio this occurred mainly after fields were abandoned
temperate deciduous forest
4 seasons with moderate rainfall, and trees that lose their leaves.
Lipid
Fats, oils, and waxes- used to store energy and makes up most of cell membranes
Desert
May be hot or cold, but always dry
You discover something that uses energy, reproduces, develops, has DNA, evolves, responds to its environment but doesn’t have cells or maintain homeostasis. Is it biologically alive?
No it needs to fit all eight things
EXPERIMENT WITH FLUMPH PLANTS
Which of the above would be the control group?
Group 3
Which would be an independent variable?
Amount of light plants were exposed to
Which would be manipulated variable in the above experiment?
Temperature
Which is the way humans have caused/are causing most extinctions?
Habitat destruction/change
Includes all the biotic and abiotic components of a habitat
Ecosystem
In which situations would you likely have to only observe rather than experiment to test
How a blue whale migrates
Which biome would the following chart best represent?
Tropical Savanah
Around here woody stems in _____ tend to grow a wife, light colored ring of xylem.
Late spring/early summer
Bryophytes and ferns need water to
Reproduce sexually
The plant in the following image:
Makes sperm/eggs
Which of the following is never a function of stems?
All may be functions
The phylum anthophyta (angiosperms) first appeared in the:
Cretaceous
Which of the following are the guard cells?
e
When the climate dried out (after the Carboniferous)
Seed plants (gymnosperms) became the dominant plant type
Includes those plants with a seed not covered by a fruit
Gymnosperm
Having one set of chromosomes (like spores)
Haploid
Wax layer made by the epidermis it holds water in the plant
Cuticle
Latin ending meaning plant
Phyta
Increase surface area for water, though easily lost during transplantation
Root hairs
Inside a seed along with a food supply and tough seed coat
Embryo
Where a plant grows longer from (primary growth)
apical meristem
Plants like bryophytes and liverworts that are stuck beings small
Non vascular
Forms the base of the most productive cold water marine habitat
Kelp
Dead cells that carry water
Xylem
An ancient green algae is currently considered the most likely ancestors of plants
true
The sporophyte plant generation produces sperm and egg
False
Plants can only grow from meristematic tissue
True
Peeling the soft layer under the bark around a tree might be fatal to it
True
Albino plants or algae are rare because herbivores could easily see them
False
In a drouth trees can “drink” so hard that they collapse their xylem
true
When a plan wilts the guard cell open wide to get as much carbon dioxide as possible
False
Mosses, even though small and non-vascular, show a wide variety of structural forms when viewed closely
True
Humans use algae for food, medicines, and even to make petroleum alternatives like plastic.
True
Transpiration
Creates a lot of the precipitation that falls on rain forests
Cellulose
Material found in plant and green algae cell walls
Vascular
Tissue that makes a system of tubes (missing in bryophytes)
Rhodophyta
Group that can live deep in the ocean (where mostly blue and green light gets)
Ginkogophyta
Only one living species in the entire phylum- often has 2 lobes on its leaves
Magnesium
Trace element needed for plants to produce chlorophyll
Spore
Tough haploid structure, helped early plants to disperse on land
Pollen
Male gametophyte of seed plants, has sperm inside
Translocation
Companion cells moving sugars through a plant from source to sink
Organ
Like leaves, where 2 or more tissues work together on a specific job
This organizational pattern is known as:
Colonial