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Question 1

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What is an Abiotic factor?
Answer
  • 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

Question 2

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What is a Carnivore?
Answer
  • 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

Question 3

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What is Data?
Answer
  • 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

Question 4

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What is Anabolism?
Answer
  • 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

Question 5

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What is Egestion?
Answer
  • 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

Question 6

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What is Biology?
Answer
  • 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)

Question 7

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What is a Quantitative survey?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 8

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What is nutrition?
Answer
  • 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)

Question 9

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What is a Hypothesis?
Answer
  • 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)

Question 10

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What is the Biosphere?
Answer
  • 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).

Question 11

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What is a Biotic Factor?
Answer
  • 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].

Question 12

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What is Catabolism?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 13

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What is a Cell?
Answer
  • 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)

Question 14

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What is a Climatic Factor?
Answer
  • 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].

Question 15

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What is Competition?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 16

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What is Conservation?
Answer
  • 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).

Question 17

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What is contest competition?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 18

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What is the continuity of life?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 19

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

Question 20

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What is decomposition?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 21

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What is denitrification?
Answer
  • [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

Question 22

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What is Double-blind testing?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 23

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What is Ecology?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 24

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What is an Ecosystem?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 25

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What is an Edaphic Factor?
Answer
  • 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].

Question 26

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What is Excretion?
Answer
  • 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).

Question 27

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What is a Food Web?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 28

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What is a Grazing Food Chain?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 29

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What is a Habitat?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 30

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What is a Herbivore?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 31

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How do you define Life?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 32

Question
What is Metabolism?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 33

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How do you define Niche?
Answer
  • 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

Question 34

Question
What is Nitrification?
Answer
  • 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]

Question 35

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What is Nitrogen fixing?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 36

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What is an Omnivore?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 37

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What is Parasitism?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 38

Question
What is a Placebo?
Answer
  • 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

Question 39

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What is Pollution?
Answer
  • 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

Question 40

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What is Predation?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 41

Question
What is a Predator?
Answer
  • 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

Question 42

Question
How do you describe prey?
Answer
  • 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]

Question 43

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What is a Primary Consumer?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 44

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

Question 45

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What is a producer?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 46

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What is a Pyramid of Numbers?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 47

Question
What is a Qualitative Survey?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 48

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What is a replicate?
Answer
  • 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

Question 49

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What is reproduction?
Answer
  • 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).

Question 50

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What is a response?
Answer
  • 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

Question 51

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What is scramble competition?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 52

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What is a Secondary Consumer?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 53

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What is symbiosis?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 54

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What is a Tertiary Consumer?
Answer
  • 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.

Question 55

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

Question 56

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What is a trophic level?
Answer
  • 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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