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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
What is an Abiotic factor?
Respuesta
  • The Study of living things (organisms)
  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together to form larger molecules
  • A non- living factor
  • Part(s) of earth that supports life

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
What is a Carnivore?
Respuesta
  • An animal that eats both animals and plant
  • An animal that feeds on animals only
  • Basic structural unit of a living organism (that possesses its characteristics)
  • Chemical reactions where larger molecules are broken down to smaller molecules

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
What is Data?
Respuesta
  • Measurements or observations or information gathered from an experiment
  • Standard for comparison
  • The ability of organisms to exist from one generation to the next
  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins the resource

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
What is Anabolism?
Respuesta
  • Chemical reactions where larger molecules are broken down to smaller molecules
  • The wise management of the environment or organisms
  • The decaying of a dead organism
  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together to form larger molecules

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
What is Egestion?
Respuesta
  • Removal of the waste products of metabolisms
  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a ecosystem]
  • Removal of unabsorbed material from the body
  • The conversion of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen

Pregunta 6

Pregunta
What is Biology?
Respuesta
  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.
  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows which is the real pill and which is the placebo
  • The wise management of the environment or organisms
  • The Study of living things (organisms)

Pregunta 7

Pregunta
What is a Quantitative survey?
Respuesta
  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not
  • A survey which records or estimates the numbers of a species (in a particular ecosystem)
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.
  • A confrontation which results in each organism getting some of the resource.

Pregunta 8

Pregunta
What is nutrition?
Respuesta
  • The obtaining or making of food by living organisms
  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.
  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates
  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem)

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
What is a Hypothesis?
Respuesta
  • Grazing Food Chain Feeding relationship between organisms in which energy is transferred.
  • A proven theory.
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans)

Pregunta 10

Pregunta
What is the Biosphere?
Respuesta
  • Organisms and their (interactions with) environment.
  • Part(s) of earth that supports life.
  • (Place) where a species (or an organism) lives
  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

Pregunta 11

Pregunta
What is a Biotic Factor?
Respuesta
  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a (terrestrial) ecosystem].
  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).
  • A non- living factor
  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem].

Pregunta 12

Pregunta
What is Catabolism?
Respuesta
  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together to form larger molecules.
  • Removal of the waste products of metabolisms.
  • Chemical reactions where larger molecules are broken down to smaller molecules.
  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

Pregunta 13

Pregunta
What is a Cell?
Respuesta
  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey).
  • Basic structural unit of a living organism (that possesses its characteristics).
  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).
  • Common features that separate living things from non-living things (organisation, nutrition, excretion, response & reproduction)

Pregunta 14

Pregunta
What is a Climatic Factor?
Respuesta
  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).
  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates
  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a (terrestrial) ecosystem].
  • Factors relating to long term weather conditions [which affects the distribution of organisms in an ecosystem].

Pregunta 15

Pregunta
What is Competition?
Respuesta
  • The ability of organisms to exist from one generation to the next.
  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins the resource.
  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.
  • When 2 or more organisms fight for a resource that is in short supply.

Pregunta 16

Pregunta
What is Conservation?
Respuesta
  • The obtaining or making of food by living organisms.
  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.
  • Make a duplicate(s) of an experiment or procedure.
  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans).

Pregunta 17

Pregunta
What is contest competition?
Respuesta
  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins the resource.
  • A confrontation which results in each organism getting some of the resource.
  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.
  • When 2 or more organisms fight for a resource that is in short supply.

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
What is the continuity of life?
Respuesta
  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.
  • The ability of organisms to exist from one generation to the next.
  • (Place) where a species (or an organism) lives.
  • Interconnected food chains.

Pregunta 19

Pregunta
What is a control?
Respuesta
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • A proven theory.
  • Standard for comparison.
  • A proven hypothesis.

Pregunta 20

Pregunta
What is decomposition?
Respuesta
  • The conversion of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen
  • The decaying of a dead organism.
  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates.
  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.

Pregunta 21

Pregunta
What is denitrification?
Respuesta
  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows which is the real pill and which is the placebo.
  • Measurements or observations or information gathered from an experiment
  • The decaying of a dead organism
  • The conversion of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen

Pregunta 22

Pregunta
What is Double-blind testing?
Respuesta
  • Control used in drug testing.
  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows which is the real pill and which is the placebo.
  • The reacting of an organism to stimuli.
  • An organism which makes its own food.

Pregunta 23

Pregunta
What is Ecology?
Respuesta
  • Organisms and their (interactions with) environment.
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits.
  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.

Pregunta 24

Pregunta
What is an Ecosystem?
Respuesta
  • The position of an organism in a food chain.
  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.
  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.
  • Organisms and their (interactions with) environment.

Pregunta 25

Pregunta
What is an Edaphic Factor?
Respuesta
  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).
  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a (terrestrial) ecosystem].
  • A non- living factor.
  • Factors relating to long term weather conditions [which affects the distribution of organisms in an ecosystem].

Pregunta 26

Pregunta
What is Excretion?
Respuesta
  • Removal of unabsorbed material from the body.
  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.
  • Removal of the waste products of metabolisms.
  • The creating of new individuals of its own kind by an organism (by either sexual or asexual means).

Pregunta 27

Pregunta
What is a Food Web?
Respuesta
  • The position of an organism in a food chain.
  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.
  • Feeding relationship between organisms in which energy is transferred.
  • Interconnected food chains or more than one species at each trophic level.

Pregunta 28

Pregunta
What is a Grazing Food Chain?
Respuesta
  • Interconnected food chains or more than one species at each trophic level.
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator
  • Feeding relationship between organisms in which energy is transferred.

Pregunta 29

Pregunta
What is a Habitat?
Respuesta
  • Part(s) of earth that supports life.
  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.
  • (Place) where a species (or an organism) lives.
  • An organism which makes its own food.

Pregunta 30

Pregunta
What is a Herbivore?
Respuesta
  • An animal that eats both animals and plants.
  • An animal that feeds on animals only.
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
  • An animal that feeds on plants only.

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
How do you define Life?
Respuesta
  • Common features that separate living things from non-living things (organisation, nutrition, excretion, response & reproduction).
  • The Study of living things (organisms).
  • Part(s) of earth that supports life.
  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

Pregunta 32

Pregunta
What is Metabolism?
Respuesta
  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together to form larger molecules.
  • The obtaining or making of food by living organisms.
  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.
  • All the chemical reactions taking place in living organisms.

Pregunta 33

Pregunta
How do you define Niche?
Respuesta
  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates
  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).
  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator.
  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates

Pregunta 34

Pregunta
What is Nitrification?
Respuesta
  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans)
  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates.
  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.
  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem]

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
What is Nitrogen fixing?
Respuesta
  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates
  • The obtaining or making of food by living
  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.
  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.

Pregunta 36

Pregunta
What is an Omnivore?
Respuesta
  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).
  • An animal that feeds on animals only.
  • An animal that feeds on plants only.
  • An animal that eats both animals and plants.

Pregunta 37

Pregunta
What is Parasitism?
Respuesta
  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.
  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans).
  • Removal of unabsorbed material from the body.
  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits.

Pregunta 38

Pregunta
What is a Placebo?
Respuesta
  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.
  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.
  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows which is the real pill and which is the placebo.
  • Control used in drug testing

Pregunta 39

Pregunta
What is Pollution?
Respuesta
  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans).
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.
  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.
  • An organism which makes its own food

Pregunta 40

Pregunta
What is Predation?
Respuesta
  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey).
  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator
  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

Pregunta 41

Pregunta
What is a Predator?
Respuesta
  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.
  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey).
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.
  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator

Pregunta 42

Pregunta
How do you describe prey?
Respuesta
  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.
  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator.
  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey)
  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem]

Pregunta 43

Pregunta
What is a Primary Consumer?
Respuesta
  • A proven theory
  • An organism which makes its own food
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

Pregunta 44

Pregunta
What is a Principle or Law?
Respuesta
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • A proven hypothesis.
  • A proven theory

Pregunta 45

Pregunta
What is a producer?
Respuesta
  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic.
  • An organism which makes its own food.
  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.

Pregunta 46

Pregunta
What is a Pyramid of Numbers?
Respuesta
  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.
  • A survey which records or estimates the numbers of a species (in a particular ecosystem).
  • The position of an organism in a food chain.

Pregunta 47

Pregunta
What is a Qualitative Survey?
Respuesta
  • A survey which records or estimates the numbers of a species (in a particular ecosystem).
  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not.
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.
  • Control used in drug testing.

Pregunta 48

Pregunta
What is a replicate?
Respuesta
  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.
  • The creating of new individuals of its own kind by an organism (by either sexual or asexual means).
  • The reacting of an organism to stimuli
  • Make a duplicate(s) of an experiment or procedure

Pregunta 49

Pregunta
What is reproduction?
Respuesta
  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.
  • Make a duplicate(s) of an experiment or procedure.
  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem].
  • The creating of new individuals of its own kind by an organism (by either sexual or asexual means).

Pregunta 50

Pregunta
What is a response?
Respuesta
  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans)
  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem]
  • The reacting of an organism to stimuli.
  • An organism which makes its own food

Pregunta 51

Pregunta
What is scramble competition?
Respuesta
  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.
  • A confrontation which results in each organism getting some of the resource.
  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins the resource.
  • When 2 or more organisms fight for a resource that is in short supply.

Pregunta 52

Pregunta
What is a Secondary Consumer?
Respuesta
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.
  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.
  • An animal that feeds on plants only.

Pregunta 53

Pregunta
What is symbiosis?
Respuesta
  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.
  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits.
  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).
  • All the chemical reactions taking place in living organisms.

Pregunta 54

Pregunta
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
Respuesta
  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits
  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.

Pregunta 55

Pregunta
What is a theory?
Respuesta
  • A proven hypothesis.
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • A proven theory.
  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

Pregunta 56

Pregunta
What is a trophic level?
Respuesta
  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.
  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not.
  • The position of an organism in a food chain.
  • Interconnected food chains or more than one species at each trophic level
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