Study Guide

Question 0

List treats to biodiversity

Answer 0

Predation, introduction of a species, biological magnification, habitat destruction

Question 1

What would be the cause if the population in an ecosystem were to suddenly decrease?

Answer 1

More predators added, environment destruction.

Question 2

What is the greatest threat to biodiversity?

Answer 2

Habitat destruction.

Question 3

What are goals to protect biodiversity?

Answer 3

Protect, preserve habitat, and benefit

Question 4

Define deforestation and desertification

Answer 4

Loss of forest; loss of soil

Question 5

What factors play a role in population growth rate?

Answer 5

Immigration, emigration, birth and death rate

Question 6

If there is a decline in resources what would happen to a population?

Answer 6

It would decrease, then soon reach it’s carrying capacity

Question 7

What are limiting factors in an ecosystem that are considered density dependent?

Answer 7

Disease, food shortage, birth and death rate, high emigration

Question 8

What would be the course/ result if the death of bats in a cave?

Answer 8

More of its prey, in this case insects, would have an increase in their population.

Question 9

Define sustainable development

Answer 9

Sustainable resources

Question 10

Define ecological sustainability and ecological footprint

Answer 10

Left impressions on and ecosystem

Question 11

Define non renewable resources

Answer 11

Resources that can only e used once

Question 12

What happens when countries become more industrialized?

Answer 12

More of the resources are consumed an used

Question 13

Give and example of successful environmental improvement die to change in behavior

Answer 13

Recycling, hybrids, awareness

Question 14

Best way to build a housing development outside of a city?

Answer 14

Build atop of a demolished site

Question 15

Slowest moving blood vessel

Answer 15

The capillaries

Question 16

What increases blood pressure?

Answer 16

Age, diet, weight

Question 17

What is blood pressure?

Answer 17

The measure of the force of blood pushing against the blood vessel walls

Question 18

What type of cells hep fight off infections?

Answer 18

White blood cells, t and B cells

Question 19

What is a helper T cell?

Answer 19

Memory cells that fight infection

Question 20

List effective ways to to combat and infectious agent

Answer 20

Take antibiotics, vaccines, diet

Question 21

What is the body’s major non specific line if defense?

Answer 21

The epidermis

Question 22

How does a fever help to prep text the body?

Answer 22

It shows that the body is fighting off the infection

Question 23

How does vaccine help protect the body from infectious agents?

Answer 23

Memory cells fight off a dead virus to gain immunity for he time the same virus infects the body

Question 24

Zygote and fertilization

Answer 24

The initial cell formed by the joining of gametes by sexual reproduction: the union of the human egg and sperm

Question 25

What stores sperm

Answer 25

Epididymis

Question 26

Function of the amniotic sac

Answer 26

Protects, cushions, and insulates the fetus

Question 27

Placenta function

Answer 27

Connects the body to the fetus and helps to give the fetus nutrients and protects it from internal infection

Question 28

What happens in the third trimester?

Answer 28

The lungs are completed, as well as the bones; ad the baby starts to practice breathing

Question 29

List the proper sequence of development starting with the early stage

Answer 29

1. Zygote
2. blastocyst
3. embryo
4. fetus

Question 30

Secondary an primary succession

Answer 30

Pri: ecological succession occurring in an environment in which a new substrate devoid of vegetation and usually lacking soil( lava flow, no soil)

Sec: a process started by an event( forest fire, soil)