Ch 1-13 Flashcards
The vase shaped structure of a flower that contains the stigma and ovary
Pistil
A plant that lives for two growing seasons
Perennial
The tiny air sacs found in human and mammal lungs
Alveoli
The system of the human body that provides covering and protection
Integumentary
A group of cells designed to work together as a unit
Tissue
Food nutrients that are used to build and repair the body
Proteins
The scientific concept that states that living things can originate only from existing living things
Law of biogenesis
The level of classification between order and genus
Family
The general term for all mammals with hooves
Ungulates
An animal that reproduces by laying eggs
Oviparous
The part of a bird egg that becomes the embryo
Germinal spot
The largest known fish
Whale shark
The hard shell covering the cephalothorax of some crustaceans
Carapace
Prokaryotes are distinguished from eukaryotes by lack of an organized ……..
Nucleus
The seller is surrounded and protected by this
The cell membrane
A tree’s xylem are located in this part
Wood
A tree that has male and female parts on separate trees
Dioecious
And environment and all its organisms
An ecosystem
The range of conditions in which an organism can survive
It’s tolerance range
The system that uses hormones to control certain body functions
The endocrine system
The foundation of modern science
The Bible
The level of classification below kingdom
Phylum
Any built-in knowledge that an animal is born with
Instinct
The outside skeleton of an arthropod
Exoskeleton
The information-storing substance that a cell’s nucleus contains
DNA
A structure formed by the leaves, twigs, flowers, and fruit at the top of the fully grown tree
The crown
The northern and southern limit at which trees grow
The tree line
A model that shows all the feeding relationships in an environment
Food web
All the organisms of one species in an environment
The population
The struggle against other organisms for needed resources
Competition
A nutritional relationship in which one animal hunts another
Predation
A relationship in which organisms share only indirect contact
Neutralism
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped
Commensalism
The surroundings of an organism or group of organisms
Environment
The unbearable Akalei Diaz it says that the present is the key to the past
Uniformitarianism
And originally created type of organism
A kind
An animal that depends upon external means to regulate its body temperature
Cold-blooded
The transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring
Heredity
Because they obtain their nutrition from dead organisms, fungi are considered this
Saprophytes
The maximum number of organisms of a particular species that an ecosystem can support
The carrying capacity
The number and variety of species living in an environment
Biodiversity
The term for any close relationship between organisms
Symbiosis
The permanently frozen layer of arctic tundra
Permafrost
Based on plant and animal life, the earth is divided into bride regions called this
Biomes
A sensible explanation to a scientific problem
A hypothesis
The group used as a standard for comparison when using the scientific method
Control group
This term refers to organisms that live in or on other organisms into nutrients from them
Parasites
A living thing that can be cut into equal halves in only One Direction has this kind of symmetry
Bilateral
Flowering plants are this kind of plant
Angiosperms
The green pigment found in chloroplasts
Chlorophyll
A characteristic of diecots
They have taproots
The system of the human body that transports nutrients, waste, and other materials
The cardiovascular system
Exercises that do not maintain a raised heart rate
Anaerobic
The disease that occurs when some of the body’s cells begin to divide and grow at an abnormally fast pace
Cancer
The belief that nothing is spiritual and that there is no God
Materialism
Mutations cannot cause evolution because of this
Mutations do not produce new kinds of organisms
And animal species that has been completely wiped out
Extinct
An animal that primarily eats plants
Herbivore
This is a characteristic NOT common to all mammals
A two-chambered heart
Introducing ladybugs into an area to remove aphid pests is an example of this
Biological control
Single celled animal-like organisms
Protozoa
The main function of the bio geochemical cycles
To recycle minerals and other nutrients in the environment
The portion of earth where life exists
The biosphere
The spinal cord and brain are in this system
The central nervous system
The large blood vessel’s that return blood to the heart
Veins
The most powerful natural stimulant
Cocaine
Animals with backbones
Vertebrates
I migration route that birds follow from year-to-year
Flyway
A chick that hatches with insulating feathers and can run or swim soon after birth
Precocial
The sequence “egg, nymph, adult,” describes this type of metamorphosis
Incomplete metamorphosis
A tree that loses its leaves in the fall and stays bear all winter
A deciduous tree
An organisms feeding relationship with other animals is described by this
It’s trophic level
Man’s responsibility to take care of Gods creation
Stewardship
The preservation, management, and care of natural resources
Conservation
A list of starting at producers and arranged in order of what eats what
The food chain
This person studies body structure
Anatomist
This person studies reptiles and amphibians
A herpetologist
This person studies fish
Ichthyologist
This person studies insects
Entomologist
This person studies the interactions between organisms and their environment
An ecologist
The plant vessels that carry sugar to the roots and stem
Phloem
The food making process of plants
Photosynthesis
The term that refers to a strong feeling expressed in a physical way
An emotion
The waxy protective layer of a leaf
The cuticle
The organ that produces the oil that bird to spread over their bodies
The preen gland
The term that refers to an eye with more than one lens
A compound eye
The group of arthropods that spiders belong to
Arachnids
The group of organisms that are the main producers on the planet
Plants
This term refers to an organisms role in its environment
Niche
The idea of that nature is God
Pantheism
