Test 3 Flashcards
Cross section of the earth
1) thin layer: crust
2) mantle: molten lava
3) core: center, solid
plate tectonics
earth’s crust is broken into 7-9 plates
- crustal margin of 1 plate being thrust under margin of another plate
- plate goes down and creates mountain chain
- continents and islands like Hawaii have a weak spot
Pangea (super continent)
225 million years ago, all the continents together.
Subcontinent: Laurasia
northern subcontinent: N. America and Northern Europe, Asia including China
subcontinent: Gondwanaland
southern subcontinent: S. America, Africa, Australia, Antartica, India, S. Europe
Age of Earth
4.5 billion years old
Archean
- 1st appearance of bacteria-3.8 billion years old
- archaebacteria and eubacteria
Proterozoic
-archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae
paleozoic
-archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae
-animalae: invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles and fish
(fossils of birds and mammals are missing)
mesozoic
- all kingdoms
- age of reptiles (Dinos)
- animalae- 1st appearance of birds
Cenozoic
65 million years ago to present
- all kingdoms
- animalae- 1st appearance of mammals
pathogen
infectious, disease-carrying agents that invade the target organism and multiplies inside or on them
ex: bacteria, fungi
infection vs. disease
infection: any pathogen that invades cells
disease: have to have the infection and white blood cells could not fight it off
epidemic vs. pandemic
epidemic: effects smaller community, spreads quickly then gone
pandemic: around the world, affecting all over
characteristics of bacteria
- all are prokaryotes,do not have nucleus
- have circular DNA
- all are microscopic
3 shapes of bacteria
- round (coccus)
- rod (bacillus)
- spiral (spirillum)
autotroph
manufacture own food
heterotrophs
does not make own food
Lactobacillus bacteria
found in pickles, buttermilk, yogurt
actinomycetes
manufacture antibiotics
e.coli
manufacture vitamin k, assist in fat digestion, help newborn babies digest milk
clostridium botulinum
food poisoning
clostridium tetanus
tetanus or lockjaw
borrelia burgdorferi
lyme disease
slime molds
creep along
amoeboid protozoans
adult amoebas move and capture prey through pseudopodia (false feet)
- foraminferans
heliozoans
radiolarians