science test

Question 1

the study of how living things interact with one another and with their physical environment

Answer 1

ecology

Question 2

an organisms environment or home

Answer 2

habitat

Question 3

thin layer in the Earth’s surface where life exists

Answer 3

biosphere

Question 4

basic unit of ecology

Answer 4

ecosystem

Question 5

smallest living unit of the biosphere

Answer 5

organism

Question 6

what are the abiotic factors

Answer 6

soil, radiation, water, temperature, wind, atmosphere

Question 7

an ideal range of temperature or other factors also known as the thriving range

Answer 7

optimum range

Question 8

eat only meat

Answer 8

carnivore

Question 9

eat only plants

Answer 9

herbivores

Question 10

model used by ecologists to show all possible feeding relationships at each trophic level- more complex

Answer 10

food web

Question 11

share only indirect relationship

Answer 11

neutralism

Question 12

relationship in which one organism is being helped and the other is neutral

Answer 12

commensalism

Question 13

relationship in which one organism eats hunts and kills the other organism

Answer 13

predation

Question 14

a relationship in which grazing animals feed on plants by cropping portions of the plant without killing it

Answer 14

herbivory

Question 15

water moves from the soil and from the water surfaces of the earth, through the atmosphere, and then back to the earth

Answer 15

hydrologic cycle (water cycle)

Question 16

what biome is known for its permafrost

Answer 16

arctic tundra

Question 17

what biome is known for its clear seasons

Answer 17

temperate deciduous forest

Question 18

what are the grasslands in Africa

Answer 18

savanna

Question 19

what biome is known for having salt in its water

Answer 19

marine

Question 20

what biome is known for savannas

Answer 20

grasslands

Question 21

what biome does not have salt in its water

Answer 21

freshwater

Question 22

what is a place where life is abundant and saltwater and freshwater meet

Answer 22

estuary

Question 23

what is complete succession called

Answer 23

primary

Question 24

mans role on the earth

Answer 24

dominion

Question 25

what is taking good care of those things that God has given us on earth

Answer 25

stewardship

Question 26

what is the wise use of nature

Answer 26

conservation

Question 27

any condition that interferes with normal functions

Answer 27

disease

Question 28

disease causing organisms

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pathogen

Question 29

microscopic pathogen

Answer 29

germ

Question 30

most common immunological disease

Answer 30

allergy

Question 31

disease present at birth

Answer 31

congenital disease

Question 32

condition that results from the runaway growth of the body's own cells

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cancer

Question 33

the three bacterial shapes

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1.) spirilla 2.) cocci 3.) bacilli

Question 34

an animal that transmits infection

Answer 34

vector

Question 35

person who transmits diseases

Answer 35

carrier

Question 36

first to use antiseptics

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Lister

Question 37

Y-shaped protein molecular homing missiles

Answer 37

antibodies

Question 38

what happens when tissue fluid goes to the lymph vessels

Answer 38

they become lymph

Question 39

largest lymphatic organ

Answer 39

spleen

Question 40

what is AIDs caused by

Answer 40

HIV

Question 41

substances produced by bacteria, molds, and certain other organisms that are effective in stopping the growth of microorganisms

Answer 41

antibiotics

Question 42

the idea that life came from nothing

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spontaneous generation

Question 43

idea that we all come from a common ancestor

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evolution

Question 44

whose work became the absolute authority on human anatomy for 1000 years

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Galen

Question 45

father of anatomy

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Vesalius

Question 46

the book that allows us to view the close working association working between created man (Adam) and other living things

Answer 46

Bible

Question 47

concept that living things come from living things

Answer 47

law of biogenesis

Question 48

idea that science has every answer

Answer 48

scientism

Question 49

living organisms that move from place to place in their environment

Answer 49

animals

Question 50

can move the environment toward themselves for the purpose of trapping food

Answer 50

sessile

Question 51

can move their bodies from place to place

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motile

Question 52

cut in half anyway and it will always have the same shae on one side as on the other

Answer 52

radial symmetry

Question 53

what animals are warm-blooded, have hair, provide milk for their young, four chambered heart, breather air using lungs

Answer 53

mammals

Question 54

can be cut in half in only one place to make each half like the other

Answer 54

bilateral symmetry

Question 55

maintaining the same temperature

Answer 55

homeothermic