Ch. 1 Test

Question 0

Organisms that eat only plants

Answer 0

Herbivores

Question 1

The process of producing food from water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight is called?

Answer 1

Photosynthesis

Question 2

The movement of digested food and other materials throughout the body of an organism is?

Answer 2

Circulation

Question 3

The rebuilding of worn out or injured body parts and tissues by an organism is?

Answer 3

Self- repair

Question 4

The process by which oxygen reacting with food molecules to produce energy needed by an organism to fulfill its life processes is?

Answer 4

Respiration

Question 5

During excretion the kidneys remove what?

Answer 5

Urea and excess water

Question 6

During excretion the lungs remove what?

Answer 6

Carbon dioxide and excess water

Question 7

What is excretion?

Answer 7

The ridding of the body of waste products

Question 8

Fires, floods; droughts, and storms are what type of stimuli?

Answer 8

Abiotic

Question 9

An organism that is attached to a substrate and incapable of self moment is what?

Answer 9

Sessile

Question 10

What is the only life process not necessary for an individual to survive?

Answer 10

Reproduction

Question 11

Budding, regeneration, and binary fission are what types of reproduction?

Answer 11

Asexual

Question 12

The acquisition of energy or ingesting food is called what?

Answer 12

Nutrition

Question 13

The process by which an organism produces offspring through the exchange of genetic material is referred to as what?

Answer 13

Sexual Reproduction

Question 14

The process by which an organism produces offspring without exchanging genetic material is?

Answer 14

Asexual Reproduction

Question 15

What is the process by which living things react/ respond to changing conditions in their environment?

Answer 15

Response

Question 16

The process by which simple substance are broken down through digestion and pass through internal parts of an organism is?

Answer 16

Absorption

Question 17

The process by which an organism changed from its juvenile stage into its mature form is?

Answer 17

Development

Question 18

The process by which chemical bonds holding atoms of food molecules are broken down to produce energy for life functions is?

Answer 18

Respiration

Question 19

The process by which food molecules are moved throughout the body to the individual cells and wasted products are picked up for elimination is?

Answer 19

Circulation

Question 20

What form of digestion is the process by which food is broken down initially before being ingested?

Answer 20

Extracellular

Question 21

What form of digestion is the process by which food is broken down within the cells into its component atoms?

Answer 21

Intracellular

Question 22

The process by which digested food is converted into new living tissue if the organism that consumed it is?

Answer 22

Assimilation

Question 23

Organisms that consume other things to gain energy

Answer 23

Heterotrophs

Question 24

Feeds on only heterotrophs

Answer 24

Carnivore

Question 25

Feeds off both autotrophs and heterotrophs

Answer 25

Omnivore

Question 26

Organism that is capable of producing its own food

Answer 26

Autotrophs

Question 27

Type of organism that feeds on the fluids of the internal organs of its host is?

Answer 27

Endo- Parasite

Question 28

Type of organism that feeds of dead or decaying organisms

Answer 28

Scavengers

Question 29

Type of organism that feeds in the fluids just below the epidermis if its host

Answer 29

Ecto-Parasite

Question 30

Autotrophs use sunlight to produce food are using what?

Answer 30

Photosynthesis

Question 31

Autotrophs use chemicals to produce food are using what process?

Answer 31

Chemosynthesis

Question 32

During Assimilation simple sugars are converted into what?

Answer 32

Fats, oils, starches, and glycogen

Question 33

During Assimilation amino acids are converted into what?

Answer 33

Proteins and enzymes

Question 34

What 2 vessels are involved in carrying food and wastes throughout the body?

Answer 34

Arteries and veins

Question 35

What does an artery do?

Answer 35

Pumps food and oxygen to cells

Question 36

What does the vein do?

Answer 36

Pumps waste and carbons dioxide away from cells

Question 37

What two vessels carry food and water throughout plants?

Answer 37

Xylem and Phloem

Question 38

What does the xylem do?

Answer 38

Pumps water minerals up from the roots

Question 39

What does phloem do?

Answer 39

Pumps food down to the roots

Question 40

An organism uses its 5 senses to pick up what from its environment?

Answer 40

Stimuli

Question 41

The reaction of organisms to the changes in their environment are?

Answer 41

Responses

Question 42

The process which a sperm united with the ovum during sexual reproduction is?

Answer 42

Fertilization

Question 43

Why are life processes of an organism so difficult to detect and classify?

Answer 43

Huge variety of living things, most life processes are internal, many organisms feed internally or camouflage, habitats are hard to reach diverse and hostile, and animals move around are hard to find and often flee

Question 44

What are examples of extremely diverse, hostile, and difficult to reach habitats?

Answer 44

Deep oceans, mountains, rainforests