Animals And Plants Flashcards

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What do muscle cells obtain energy from?

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The sugar glucose through a series of chemical reactions that require CO2

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What do muscles need energy to do?

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Perform work

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What do muscles need a steady supply of to keep working?

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Oxygen

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Aerobic definition

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Enough oxygen reaching cells to support their energy needs

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What happens as your muscles work harder?

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You breathe faster and deeper to inhale more oxygen

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What is aerobic capacity?

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The maximum rate at which one can take in enough oxygen to be used by muscle cells

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What does it mean to exceed aerobic capacity?

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The demand for oxygen in ones muscles has outstripped ones body’s ability to deliver it and metabolism becomes anaerobic

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What happens when muscle cells switch into “emergency mode”?

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They break down glucose very inefficiently and produce lactic acid as a byproduct

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What does lactic acid do?

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Impairs muscle ability and produces “the burn”

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Where does all energy originate from?

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The sun

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What does the sun do?

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It converts matter to energy and radiates some of it as visible light

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How much of the suns light reaches earth? How much of that light powers life?

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A tiny portion. A tiny portion of that tiny portion.

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What process makes it possible to use the suns light as energy?

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Photosynthesis

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Where does photosynthesis occur on land?

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In green cells within leaves of plants

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What causes plants to be green?

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Chlorophyll, a pigment molecule in chloroplasts

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What are chloroplasts?

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The organelles that perform photosynthesis

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What do chloroplasts do?

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Trap light energy and use it to produce sugars and other energy rich organic molecules.

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What are autotrophs?

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Organisms that make all their own organic matter from inorganic nutrients

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What are the nutrients for plants?

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Carbon dioxide, water, and minerals

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What are heterotrophs?

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Organisms that cannot make organic molecules from inorganic ones

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What do heterotrophs depend on autotrophs for?

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Organic fuel and material for growth and repair

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What is a producer?

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Plants and other autotrophs whose ecosystems depend on photosynthesis for food

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What make a heterotroph a consumer?

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They obtain their food by eating plants or animals

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What are the ingredients for photosynthesis?

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Carbon dioxide and water

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How does carbon dioxide enter the plant?
Through tiny pores found in the leaves
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How does water enter the plant?
Absorbed from soil by the plant's roots and moves up the plant's veins to the leaves
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How do chloroplasts produce sugars and other organic molecules?
By rearranging the atoms of the ingredients
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What is the chemical formula for glucose?
C6H12O6
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What is the byproduct of photosynthesis?
Oxygen
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Why are plants capable of producing fuel from sunlight?
Because they have chloroplasts
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What do animals and plants use fuel compounds to do?
Obtain energy
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What is cellular respiration?
A chemical process that harvests energy stored in sugars and other organic molecules
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What does cellular respiration use oxygen to do?
To help convert energy extracted from organic fuel compounds to another form of energy called ATP
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What do cells use ATP for?
Nearly all their work
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Where does the production of ATP during cellular respiration occur in both plants and animals?
Mitochondria
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What are the waste products of cellular respiration?
Carbon dioxide and water
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Plants store energy using photosynthesis and harvest energy via...
Cellular respiration
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What do plants usually make more of than they need for fuel? What do they do with this photosynthic surplus?
Organic molecules. Use it to grow.