Final Exam

Question 1

What is the largest mammal?

Answer 1

blue whale

Question 2

What two parts from the scientific name?

Answer 2

Genus and Species (Genus is the group name. Species is the specific name.)

Question 3

What organisms are in kingdom fungi?

Answer 3

Mushrooms, puffballs, yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles

Question 4

What is zoology?

Answer 4

The study of animals

Question 5

What is botany?

Answer 5

The study of plants

Question 6

When a seed starts to grow, it is said to _____________.

Answer 6

germinate

Question 7

What chemical in the stomach helps digest protein?

Answer 7

pepsin

Question 8

what are the five types of tastes?

Answer 8

Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami

Question 9

State the classification for snakes, including class, order, and suborder.

Answer 9

class: Reptile; order: Squamata; suborder: Serpent

Question 10

What feature is common to all arthropods?

Answer 10

Exoskeleton- a hard outer covering that gives structure and protection to the arthropod

Question 11

What do spiders prey upon?

Answer 11

Insects and other small life

Question 12

What is a biennial?

Answer 12

A plant that has a two-year life cycle (seeds produced in second year)

Question 13

What does the Latin word for rodent mean?

Answer 13

To gnaw

Question 14

What is symbiosis? Give an example from Chapter 2

Answer 14

Symbiosis is two organisms that live together to the benefit of both. Example: lichen- a layer of algae sandwiched between two layers of fungi. Algae produce food for the fungi. Fungi shield the algae and break rocks into minerals the algae can use for food production.

Question 15

What does anaerobic mean?

Answer 15

LIfe without air

Question 16

Of what is the exoskeleton made?

Answer 16

Chitin- a compound similar to the material that makes human fingernails

Question 17

What can plants do that animals cannot?

Answer 17

Make food from non-living material (sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water)

Question 18

What information does a snake gather as it flicks its forked tongue in and out?

Answer 18

The tongue collects airborne chemicals that tell it where prey might be. Its function is similar to the sense of smell.

Question 19

Are fish cold-blooded or warm-blooded

Answer 19

cold-blooded

Question 20

What important function in nature do mushrooms serve?

Answer 20

Decomposition- break down dead trees and other plant life, returning to the soil

Question 21

What does diurnal mean?

Answer 21

“active during the day”

Question 22

How do reptiles gain the heat they need to be active?

Answer 22

Reptiles are cold-blooded, so they must gain their heat from the warmth of the sun.

Question 23

What is a perennial?

Answer 23

A plant that lives for several years before producing fruit and seeds

Question 24

Where does the word arachnid come from?

Answer 24

The word arachnid comes from the Greek myth of Arachne, a girl whose weaving of cloth was so skillful that the Greek gods grew jealous and turned her into a spider, condemned to weave webs forever.

Question 25

What is the largest land mammal?

Answer 25

elephant

Question 26

What does nocturnal mean?

Answer 26

“active at night”

Question 27

What chemical in the stomach improves the action of pepsin?

Answer 27

hydrochloric acid

Question 28

What are the five types of vertebrates that are well known to humans?

Answer 28

Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals

Question 29

Which phylum has the most numerous species?

Answer 29

Arthropod

Question 30

What is an annual?

Answer 30

A plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season

Question 31

What is the “food factory” of the plant?

Answer 31

The leaves of the plant

Question 32

What does amphibian mean?

Answer 32

“Life on both sides,” referring to water and land

Question 33

What mammal can actually fly?

Answer 33

bat

Question 34

Are amphibians cold-blooded or warm-blooded?

Answer 34

cold-blooded

Question 35

Name the five kingdom.

Answer 35

Plant, Animal, Fungi, Protista, Bacteria

Question 36

What characteristic is shared by all members of kingdom Protista?

Answer 36

All protista have only a single cell.

Question 37

What is the first step in digestion? How does this step promote digestion?

Answer 37

The first step in digestion is mechanical digestion-chewing food into smaller pieces. Small pieces of food are more easily altered by chemical action, the next step in digestion.

Question 38

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer 38

Alexander Fleming

Question 39

What is torpor?

Answer 39

A state of inactivity

Question 40

What are the two varieties of spiders in the United States that can harm humans?

Answer 40

The black widow and the brown recluse

Question 41

What gives leaves their green color?

Answer 41

chlorophyll

Question 42

Who developed the scientific naming (binomial classification) system?

Answer 42

Carl Linnaeus