bio test (15-16)

Question 1

study of how living things interact with one
another and with their physical environment

Answer 1

ecology

Question 2

organism’s environment or home

Answer 2

habitat

Question 3

relatively thin layer of Earth’s surface in which life exists

Answer 3

biosphere

Question 4

basic unit of ecology and may be defined as the interrelated network of all organisms and their environment within a limited area

Answer 4

ecosystem

Question 4

smallest living unit of the biosphere

Answer 4

organism

Question 5

all of the living things in an ecosystem

Answer 5

community

Question 6

abiotic factors

Answer 6

temperature, radiation, atmosphere, wind, water, soil

Question 7

ideal range of values for an environmental factor in which an organism can thrive

Answer 7

optimum range

Question 8

any factor outside an organism’s tolerance range

Answer 8

limiting factor

Question 9

consumers that feed on only plants

Answer 9

herbivores

Question 10

a model used by ecologists to show all possible feeding relation­ships at each trophic level

Answer 10

food web

Question 11

relationship in which both organisms benefit

Answer 11

mutualism

Question 12

model used by ecologists to show the nutritional relationships among organisms in an eco­system

Answer 12

food chain

Question 13

relationship between two organisms in which one benefits while the other is harmed

Answer 13

parastitism

Question 14

consumers that feed only on other animals

Answer 14

carnivores

Question 15

relationship with a predator and prey

Answer 15

predation

Question 16

biogeochemical cycle in which water moves from the soil and from the water surfaces of the earth, through the atmosphere, and back to the earth again

Answer 16

hydrologic cycle

Question 17

grazing animals feed on plants by cropping portions of the plant without killing it

Answer 17

herbivory

Question 18

treeless northern biome that has long, harsh winters and permafrost

Answer 18

arctic tundra

Question 19

relationship in which one organism is benefited and the other is neither harmed nor helped

Answer 19

commensalism

Question 20

biome that has well-defined seasons and is dominated by deciduous broadleaf trees

Answer 20

temperate deciduous forest

Question 21

high mountain altitudes. has vegetation and climatic conditions similar to those of the Arctic tundra, although the soil has better drainage and lacks permafrost.

Answer 21

alpine tundra

Question 22

rich and beautiful prairies and plains of North
America, whose fertile soils are almost without rival in the world

Answer 22

grassland

Question 23

long winters and heavy snowfalls. boreal forest- or taiga.

Answer 23

northern coniferous forest

Question 24

tropical grassland biome

Answer 24

savanna

Question 25

hot and humid regions receive abundant rain and have a year­ round growing season. near equator.

Answer 25

tropical rainforest

Question 26

any aquatic ecosystem associated with the ocean and having high salinity

Answer 26

marine ecosystem

Question 27

nutrient-rich fresh water from rivers and streams meets and mixes with seawater

Answer 27

estuary

Question 28

first organisms that col­onize a disturbed ecosystem

Answer 28

pioneer species

Question 29

Scripture declares that man has _____ over nature

Answer 29

dominion

Question 30

using resources in a responsible way that allows their continued use

Answer 30

conservation

Question 31

man’s responsibility to manage creation in a way that balances the wise use of natural resources and their conservation

Answer 31

stewardship

Question 32

living organisms that move from place to place in their environment, mainly for the purpose of obtaining food

Answer 32

animals

Question 33

attached to one location but can move the environment—air or water—toward themselves for the purpose of trapping food

Answer 33

sessile

Question 34

symmetry where you will always have the same shape on one side as on the other

Answer 34

radial symmetry

Question 35

can be cut in half in only one plane to make each half like the other

Answer 35

bilateral symmetry

Question 36

without symmetry

Answer 36

asymmetry

Question 37

mammal characteristics (5)

Answer 37

(1) have fur/hair (2) milk production (3) diaphragm (4) four chambered heart (5) warm-blooded

Question 38

maintaining the same temperature

Answer 38

homeothermic

Question 39

means egg-laying

Answer 39

oviparous

Question 40

give birth to live young

Answer 40

viviparous

Question 41

means tube-teeth. order that contains ardvarrks.

Answer 41

Tubulidentata

Question 42

largest land mammal

Answer 42

elephant

Question 43

enlarged incisor teeth that are made of ivory

Answer 43

tusks

Question 44

mammalian orders that are aquatic mammals called “sea cows”

Answer 44

Sirenia

Question 45

mammalian orders with egg-laying mammals. platypus and echidna.

Answer 45

Monotremata

Question 46

strange joints. armadillo, anteater, sloth.

Answer 46

Xenarthra

Question 47

slowest land mammal

Answer 47

ai sloth

Question 48

means little armored one

Answer 48

armadillo

Question 49

active at night

Answer 49

nocturnal

Question 50

active during the daytime

Answer 50

diurnal

Question 51

scaly anteater

Answer 51

pangolin

Question 52

pouched mammals

Answer 52

marsupial

Question 53

abdominal pouch on a marsupial

Answer 53

marsupium

Question 54

largest living marsupial

Answer 54

kangaroo

Question 55

only marsupials outside of australia

Answer 55

opossum

Question 56

order with flying mammals

Answer 56

Chiroptera

Question 57

high-pitched sounds used to detect the echoes that bounce from the insects

Answer 57

echolocation

Question 58

two rows of comb-like plates that hang like curtains from each side of the upper jaw in whale

Answer 58

baleen

Question 59

world's largest animal

Answer 59

blue whale

Question 60

mostly arboreal animals and are noted for their intelligence

Answer 60

primates

Question 61

small gnawing mammals that have two pairs of sharp, chisel-like incisor teeth

Answer 61

rodents

Question 62

largest rodent

Answer 62

capybara

Question 63

best method of rat control

Answer 63

sanitation

Question 64

longest-gliding mammal

Answer 64

flying lemur

Question 65

also called a coney. rabbit-sized defenseless animal that makes its home in the rocks

Answer 65

hyrax

Question 66

any condition that interferes with the normal functioning of the body

Answer 66

disease

Question 67

any organism that causes disease

Answer 67

pathogen

Question 68

most common immunological diseases

Answer 68

allergies

Question 69

diseases developed in the womb and are present at birth

Answer 69

congenital diseases

Question 70

condition that results from the runaway growth of the body’s own cells

Answer 70

cancer

Question 71

bacteria shapes (3)

Answer 71

spirilla, cocci, bassilli

Question 72

displays no symptoms of a disease but can pass it on to infect others

Answer 72

carrier

Question 73

animal that transmits infection

Answer 73

vector

Question 74

an epidemic that affects most of the world

Answer 74

pandemic

Question 75

established the use of antiseptics

Answer 75

Joseph Lister

Question 76

Y-shaped protein molecules that act like molecular homing missiles

Answer 76

antibodies

Question 77

tissue fluid after n it goes to the lymph nodes

Answer 77

lymph

Question 78

largest lymphatic organ

Answer 78

spleen

Question 79

disease that causes AIDS

Answer 79

HIV

Question 80

idea that living things can come from nonliving things

Answer 80

spontaneous generation

Question 81

became the absolute authority of human anatomy for over a thousand years

Answer 81

Galen

Question 82

father of anatomy

Answer 82

Andreas Vesallius

Question 83

teaching that all living things come from a common ancestor

Answer 83

evoultion

Question 84

idea that the universes consists of nothing but energy and matter and has no spiritual and supernatural aspects

Answer 84

materialism

Question 85

book to guide humans and give them a worldview

Answer 85

Bible

Question 86

living things can only come from other living things

Answer 86

law of biogenesis

Question 87

idea that science can find all the answers to life’s problems

Answer 87

scientism

Question 88

basis for one’s philosophy

Answer 88

worldview

Question 89

idea that the present is the only key to the past and that all things continue by natural processes at the same rates as they always have

Answer 89

unifromitarianism

Question 90

book written by Darwin

Answer 90

origin of species

Question 91

sought to improve the human species by selectively breeding humans to produce a “master race”

Answer 91

eugenics

Question 92

changes within a particular kind of organism, referring to variations in the gene pool within a population

Answer 92

speciation (microevolution)

Question 93

hypothetical process by which new kinds of creatures emerge from existing kinds over time

Answer 93

macroeveolution

Question 94

can't find anywhere/only in books. simple-to-complex sequence of fossil chart.

Answer 94

geologic column

Question 95

layers in the geologic column that are identified by the presence of character

Answer 95

index fossils

Question 96

logical fallacy of basing an argument on the very premise it attempts to prove

Answer 96

circular reasoning

Question 97

how are man and ape different from each other

Answer 97

man is made in God's image

Question 98

identified by a pig's tooth

Answer 98

Nebraska man

Question 99

thought to be an orangutang

Answer 99

Ramapithecus

Question 100

known as Lucy

Answer 100

A. Afarensis

Question 101

man and ape. handy man.

Answer 101

homo habilus

Question 102

cave man

Answer 102

Cro-Magnon man

Question 103

found in a valley in Germany

Answer 103

Neanderthal man

Question 104

known as a hoax

Answer 104

Piltdown man

Question 105

upright man

Answer 105

homo erectus

Question 106

fossils lost in WW2

Answer 106

Peking man

Question 107

founded comparative anatomy

Answer 107

George Cuvier

Question 108

argued that the intricate mechanisms of living things exhibit evidence of design by their Creator

Answer 108

William Paley

Question 109

random errors in an organism’s genetic material

Answer 109

mutation

Question 110

starts with barren ground

Answer 110

primary succession

Question 111

well­ defined here, with cold winters and hot summers

Answer 111

temperate deciduous forest

Question 112

spiny anteater

Answer 112

echidna