Unit A: Bio 20

Question 1

What is the smallest living part of an organism?

Answer 1

Cell

Question 2

What are groups of cells with similar functions called?

Answer 2

Tissue

Question 3

What are groups of tissues with similar functions called?

Answer 3

Organ

Question 4

What is a group of organisms of the same species in the same area called?

Answer 4

Population

Question 5

What is a group of organ systems called?

Answer 5

Organism

Question 6

What is a group of organs called?

Answer 6

Organ System

Question 7

What is a group of different species living in the same area called?

Answer 7

Community

Question 8

What is a community and its biotic and abiotic components called?

Answer 8

Ecosystem

Question 9

What is a large area and its organisms called?

Answer 9

Biome

Question 10

What is a narrow zone around the Earth with life called?

Answer 10

Biosphere

Question 11

What is the number of species in an ecosystem called?

Answer 11

Biodiversity

Question 12

Continuous changes within an environment

Answer 12

Dynamic Equilibrium

Question 13

What is the species that is most sensitive to changes in an ecosystem called?

Answer 13

Indicator Species

Question 14

Species is close to extinction in all parts of the country or in a large location

Answer 14

Endangered

Question 15

Species no longer exists in one part of the country but is in others

Answer 15

Extirpated

Question 16

Species is likely to become endangered if things continue the way they are

Answer 16

Threatened

Question 17

Species at risk due to low or declining numbers at the fringe of its range or in a restricted area

Answer 17

Special Concern

Question 18

The species no longer exists

Answer 18

Extinct

Question 19

Artificial biosphere made in Arizona - living laboratory

Answer 19

Biosphere 2

Question 20

Everything that takes up space and has mass

Answer 20

Matter

Question 21

The ability to do work

Answer 21

Energy

Question 22

What is the category of organisms defined by how they get energy called?

Answer 22

Trophic Level

Question 23

Organisms that get energy from sunlight, convert inorganic to organic, basic tropic level and support all other organisms

Answer 23

Autotroph

Question 24

The process by which food is made by bacteria or other living things using chemicals as the energy source, typically in the absence of sunlight, often in caves or in the ocean

Answer 24

Chemosynthesis

Question 25

Organisms that get their energy by consuming other organisms

Answer 25

Heterotroph

Question 26

Herbivores

Answer 26

Primary Consumers

Question 27

Carnivores and Omnivores

Answer 27

Secondary and Tertiary Consumers

Question 28

Organisms that get energy from dead organisms and waste products

Answer 28

Decomposers

Question 29

Eat tissues from dead organisms

Answer 29

Scavengers

Question 30

An organism that lives on abiotic organic matter, absorbing/digesting it

Answer 30

Saprotroph

Question 31

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, simply changed from one form to another

Answer 31

First Law of Thermodynamics

Question 32

In every energy conversion, some energy is lost and less energy remains available for the next conversion

Answer 32

Second Law of Thermodynamics