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What are the 7 characteristics of living things

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what is MRS GREN
- Movement
- Respiration
- Sensitivity
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Excretion
- Nutrition

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what is multicellular

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organisms that are made from more than one cell ( multi = many )

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what is unicellular

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organisms that are only made up of one cell ( uni = one )

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what are the five kingdoms

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  • monera
  • protista
  • fungi
  • plant
  • animal
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what is Monera

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includes all the organisms know as bacteria

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what is protista

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most protista live in water

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what is fungi

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  • organisms that include microorganisms such as yeasts, moulds and mushrooms
  • multicellular
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what are plants

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  • multicellular
  • they contain chloroplast for photosynthesis
  • make their own food
  • have a cell wall
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what are animals

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  • there are 9 phyla in the animal kingdom
  • 8 don’t have backbones ( they are invertebrates )
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what are vertebrates:

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Animals with an internal skeleton (endoskeleton)
e.g cats, humans, birds

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what are invertebrates:

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Animals with an external skeleton (exoskeleton) or no skeleton at all
e.g insects, crabs, slugs

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what are the 6 phyla of invertebrates

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  • Arthropods
  • Poriferans
  • Molluscs
  • Cnidarians
  • Nematodes, Platyhelminths, and
    Annelids
  • Echinoderms
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What are the 5 classes of phylum vertebrates?

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fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds

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what is a constant body temp

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when the outside temp changes the animals body temp stays the same ( constant = endotherm

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what is it called when something changes with the environment

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changes with the environment = ectotherm

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what are the 5 classes of vertebrates

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  • Amphibians
  • Reptiles
  • Birds
  • Fish
  • Mammals
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Animals that generate their own heat and maintain a constant internal body temperature are known as

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endotherms (endo=in, therm = heat)

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Endotherms may also be called

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homeotherms

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Animals which do not maintain a constant internal body temperature are called

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ectotherms (ecto = out)

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ectotherms mean

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their body temperature varies with
the temperature of the environment they live in – they obtain heat from their surroundings

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what are the Characteristics of endotherms

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Too hot – seek shade, pant, change position, sweat

Too cold – huddle, seek shelter, stop sweating, shiver

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what are the characteristics of ectotherms

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  • Ectotherms do not create their own body
  • Ectotherms do not need to eat as regularly as endotherms
  • Their activity level is depended on their temperature
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what is Ecology

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the study of the way in which organisms interact with other
organisms and with their environment.

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what is habitat

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a place where an organism lives

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what is population

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all the organisms of the same species living in a habitat

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what is community

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all the populations of different species living in a habitat

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what is Abiotic Factors

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all the non-living factors of the environment

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what is Biotic Factors

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all the living factors of the environment

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what is ecosystem

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the interaction of a community of living organisms (biotic) with
the non-living (abiotic) parts of their environment

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what are some biotic factors

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  • New predators arriving
  • Prey availability
  • New pathogens (disease-causing organisms)
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what is a food web

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  • A food web shows how all the food chains are linked within an ecosystem
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what are food chains

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  • the feeding relationships between different organisms in an ecosystem
  • Food chains always start with a producer
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what are apex predators

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  • top of the chain
  • are tertiary consumers or higher
  • a small number of apex predators
    supported by a greater number of prey
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what is Interdependence in the Ecosystem

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  • All organisms in an ecosystem
    depend upon each other.
  • Often very small changes to
    ecosystems have large consequences
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Producers - autotrophs

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  • Plants are autotrophs they make their own food using light, carbon dioxide and water.
  • Plants are the basis of all food chains on
36
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how does photosynthesis work

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sunlight + carbon dioxide + water

             photosynthesis

Glucose (sugar) + oxygen

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what are herbivore

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  • The first consumers in the
    food chain (they eat the plants)
  • They are heterotrophs
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what are carnivores

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  • Second order (or higher) consumers
  • Eat other consumers; the herbivores
  • Obligate carnivores eat meat (other
    animals) only
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what is decomposition

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  • decomposers break down dead or decaying organisms
    e.g. fungi, soil bacteria, algae
  • decomposers have a hidden role in the food web. they complete the cycle and return nutrients to the soil to be used by plants
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what is parasitism ( - / + )

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a relationship where one organism benefits and another organism (host) is negatively affected
e.g. mosquitoes, leaches, ticks, lice

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what is commensalism ( + / o )

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a relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
e.g. bird + tree, whale +barnacle

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what is mutualism ( + / + )

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a relationship where both organism benefit
e.g. whale shark + remora, clownfish + anemones, oxpecker bird + giraffe

43
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what are adaptions

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Adaptions are inherited characteristics or features of an organism to make it adapt to is environment and increase the chance of it surviving it also gets pasted down generations

44
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what is a structural adaptions

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a part of an organisms physical body
e.g. sharp claws, powerful muscles, long neck, camouflaged fur

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what are physiological adaptions

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an internal process or chemical reaction e.g. silk production, poison/venom, hibernation

46
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what are Behavioural adaptions

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how an organism acts or behaves (what it does) e.g. stalking prey, mark territory, maternal care

47
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what is cellular respiration

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oxygen + glucose = carbon dioxide
+ water + energy

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