Unit 4 Flashcards
Suspension/filter feeders
filter/sift food particles from water
Substrate feeders
live in food source and eat as they burrow
Deposit feeders
Eat their way through dirt ie. earth worms
Bulk feeders
eat large pieces of food using adaptations such as claws, teeth, pincers, fangs, etc.
Transpiration
loss of water vapor from leaves
guttation
the exudation of water droplets that can be seen in the. morning on the tips of grass blades or the leaf margins of some small herbaceous …
Transportation routes in a plant cell
transmembrane, symplastic, apoplastic
Autotroph: Photo-autotroph, chemo-autotroph
light, inorganic chemicals
Heterotroph: photo-heterotroph, chemo-heterotroph
light, organic compounds
Ruminants
Rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum
Mechanical digestion
mastication (chewing), peristalsis (wave like muscular action), churning (muscular contractions, stomach), segmentation (peristalsis in segments)
Xerostomia
dry mouth
bolus
Masticated food and salivary fluids
Ileoceral valve
regulates passage of waste material into colon
Muscles that help with mechanical action- churning
longitudinal, circular, oblique