exam 3 Flashcards
featuring help from Jenna (me!!😼)
Biome that includes prairies and plains
grassland
includes lions and cheetahs
savanna
hot and humid regions receive abundant rain and have a year-round growing season
tropical rainforest
high salinity aquatic ecosystem
marine ecosystems
where freshwater and saltwater mix
estuary
starts with barren ground
primary succession
starts with ready soil and pioneer species
secondary succession
mans relationship with nature
dominion
the responsibility
to take care of the earth
stewardship
the wise use of natural resources
conservation
living organisms
that move from place to place in their environment, mainly for the purpose of obtaining food
animals
animals that move their bodies from place to place
motile
animals that move the environment toward themselves for the purpose of trapping food
sessile
ALL VERTEBRATES HAVE THIS SYMMETRY!!!!! can be cut in half in only one plane to make each half like the other
bilateral symmetry
symmetry that can be cut in any way and is still equal
radial symmetry
“without symmetry”
asymmetric
what all mammals have in common
warm-blooded, have hair, produce milk, breath will lungs(have a diaphragm (what Mr stimer wanted)) and have a 4 chambered heart
maintains the same temperature
homeothermic
animal that lays eggs
oviparous
animal that bares young alive
viviparous
what the aardvark belongs to and means tube teeth
tubulidentata
largest land animal
elephant
manatees belong to
sirenia
made of ivory
tusks
the only two egg-laying mammals and they belong to the order of
platypus and the echidna belong to the monotremata
means “strange joints”
Xenarthra
the slowest land animal
Ai sloth
“little armored one”
armidillo
awake during the night
nocturnal
awake during the day
Diurnal
scaly anteater
pangolin
are identified by an abdominal pouch, in which the young are raised.
marsupials
the actual pouch name
marsupium
largest marsupial
kangaroo
the only marsupials outside Australia and the surrounding islands
Opossum
bats belong to what order
chiroptera
bats use what for finding food
echolocation
two rows of comb-like plates
baleen
the study of how living things interact with one another and their environment
ecology
where organisms can be found/where they live
habitat
narrow range of things with life
biosphere
basic unit of ecology
ecosystem
smallest living unit of biosphere
organism
all living members of a ecosystem
community
abiotic factors (he said in the review to just list one)
air, temperature, wind, radiation, soil
range where the creature will thrive
optimum range
consumers that feed on other animals
carnivores
a model used by ecologists to show the nutritional relationships among organisms in an ecosystem
food chain
any factor outside an organism’s tolerance range
Limiting factor
consumers that feed on plants
herbivores
a model used by ecologists to show all possible feeding relationships at each trophic level
food web (more generic than the food chain; food chain only covers ecosystem)
a relationship in which both organisms benefit
mutualism
relationship where one organism is benefited and the other is harmed
parasitism
a relationship in which one organism is benefited and the other is neither harmed nor helped
commensalism
one organism hunts the other for food
predation
organisms share an indirect relationship
neutralism
a relationship in which animals feed on plants
herbivory
another name for the water cycle
hydrologic cycle
biome: cold winters, evergreen trees
northern coniferous forest
biome: well defined seasons
temperate deciduous forest
biome: contains permafrost
artic tundra
biome: high altitudes and no permafrost
alpine tundra (similar to artic except artic HAS permafrost, alpine does not)
what is the worlds largest animal
blue whale
order of monkeys and apes
primates
order of rats and squirrel
rodents
what is the largest rodent
capybara
what is the best way to keep rats away
sanitation
what is the longest-gliding animal
flying lemur
what is also known as a coney
hyrax
any condition that interferes with the normal functioning of the body
disease
Any organism that causes disease
pathogen
most common immunological disease
allergies
Diseases that occur during development in the
mother’s womb and are present at birth
congenital diseases
condition that results from the runaway growth of the body’s own cells
cancer
shapes of bacteria
cocci, bacilli, and spirilla
the British doctor who established the use of antiseptics
Joseph lister
An epidemic that affects a large portion of the earth is a
pandemic
A person who displays no symptoms of a disease but harbors the pathogens in his body and can pass them on to infect others
carrier
An animal that transmits infection
vector
Y-shaped protein molecules that act like molecular homing missiles
antibodies
tissue fluid once it enters the lymph capillaries
lymph
what is the body’s largest lymph organ
spleen
virus that causes AIDS
HIV
substances produced by bacteria, molds, and certain other organisms that are !effective in stopping the growth of microorganisms!
antibiodics
The idea that living things can arise from nonliving things is
spontaneous generation
the teaching that all living things developed from a common ancestor
evolution
work became the absolute authority in human anatomy for over a thousand years
Galen
who is the father of anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
the idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy
materialism
book that provides the framework in which we view the world
the Bible
living things can come only from other living things
law of biogenesis
The idea that science can find answers for all the problems in life is called
scientism
the basis for one’s philosophy
worldview
the present is key to the past
uniformitarianism
(Jenna I also need his definition)(so funny story I don’t have his definition because our class didn’t get to ch14 but myyyy definition is:
Darwin’s ideas of evolution in coherent form
On the Origin (of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.)
simple name: The Origin of Species
which sought to improve the human species by selectively breeding humans to produce a “master race”
eugenics
changes in a specific kind of organism
Microevolution or ! speciation !
the hypothetical process by which new kinds of creatures emerge from existing kinds over time
macroevolution
simple-to-complex sequence of fossils
geologic column
how many times has the geologic column been observed?
never and has been found nowhere (in a textbook but Mr stimer didn’t say this part)
Layers in the geologic column are identified by the presence of characteristic
index fossils
the logical fallacy of basing an argument on the very premise it attempts to prove
circular reasoning
This missing link was “reconstructed” from a single tooth of a pig
Nebraska man
was very similar to modern orangutans
ramapithecus
“Lucy”
Australopithecus afrensis
(Jenna I need Mr stimer s definition)
(he didn’t get to this either….)
“handy man”; actually a type of australopithecine
Homo habilis “handy man” <—(idk..– j)
found in a French cave
cro-magnon man
German plain
Neanderthal man
was a hoax
piltdown man
(I need definition)
(he didn’t get to this either.-j)
Java Man; found on the island of Java
Homo erectus (“upright man”)
was lost in ww2
Peking man
I need definition (he didn’t get to it…-j)
discovered comparative anatomy
Georges cuvier
pocket watch theroy
William paley
random errors in an organism’s genetic material
mutations
evolution and creation are based off of
faith
order name for xenarthra
strange joints
pouch of marsupials
marsupium
order of flying mammals
Chiroptera
type of tail designed for grasping
prehensile
