bio SOL review

Question 1

what are the 8 characteristics of life?

Answer 1

DOG RACER
DNA, Organization, Growth and Development, Reproduction, Adapt, Cells, Energy, React

Question 2

what is a Hypothesis?

Answer 2

a prediction that will be tested through experiment

Question 3

what is a Theory?

Answer 3

if a hypothesis is consistently tested it becomes a theory

Question 4

what is a independent variable

Answer 4

what is controlled in the experiment

Question 5

what is dependent variable

Answer 5

the part in the experiment that relies on the independent variable

Question 6

what is a experimental group?

Answer 6

the group in the experiment that is being tested on

Question 7

what is a control group?

Answer 7

the group in the experiment that is not being texted on

Question 8

what are the 6 ecological levels in order of smallest to

Answer 8

species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere (Some People Eat Big Burgers/SPICY BABY)

Question 9

what is a herbivore

Answer 9

a animal that eats plants

Question 10

what is a carnivore?

Answer 10

animals that eat meat

Question 11

what is a omnivore

Answer 11

a animal that eats both plants and meat

Question 12

what is the order of the food chain?

Answer 12

primary(1st), secondary(2nd), tertiary(3rd), quaternary(4th)

Question 13

what is mutualism?

Answer 13

a relationship where both species benefit

Question 14

what is commensalism?

Answer 14

a relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected

Question 15

what is parasitism?

Answer 15

a relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed

Question 16

what is runoff?

Answer 16

water that falls on land

Question 17

what is precipitation?

Answer 17

water or frozen water that falls from the sky

Question 18

what is transpiration?

Answer 18

when plants release water vapor into the atmosphere

Question 19

what is condensation?

Answer 19

when water changes from gas to a liquid

Question 20

what is evaporation?

Answer 20

when liquid changes into gas

Question 21

what is carrying capacity?

Answer 21

the average population the environment can hold

Question 22

what is exponential growth?

Answer 22

when a population is growing fast

Question 23

what is primary succession?

Answer 23

the forming of new land(starting from rock)

Question 24

what is secondary succession?

Answer 24

when damaged land forms again

Question 25

what are the 6 parts of cell theory?

Answer 25

- BASIC UNIT OF LIFE - MADE OF one or more CELLS and COME FROM PRE-EXISTING CELLS - SPECIALIZED STRUCTURES to do FUNCTIONS NECESSARY FOR LIFE - METABOLISM happens within cells - info is passed from one cell to another - same BASIC COMPOSITION

Question 26

what is metabolism?

Answer 26

a processes where the body turns food into energy

Question 27

what does hereditary mean?

Answer 27

passed down from parents to offspring through genes

Question 28

what does the cell membrane do?

Answer 28

controls what goes in and out of the cell

Question 29

what do the ribosomes do?

Answer 29

build proteins

Question 30

what does the golgi body do?

Answer 30

sort and package material

Question 31

what does the vacuole do?

Answer 31

stores water, nutrients and waste

Question 32

what does the lysosome do?

Answer 32

breaks down food

Question 33

what does the chloroplast do?

Answer 33

makes sugar/food

Question 34

what does the mitochondria do?

Answer 34

turns sugar/food into energy

Question 35

what does the cytoplasm do?

Answer 35

holds the shape of the cell

Question 36

what is a prokaryotic cell?

Answer 36

a cell with no nucleus

Question 37

what is a eukaryotic cell?

Answer 37

a cell with a nucleus

Question 38

what are the 5 properties of water?

Answer 38

1. cohesion and surface tension 2. capillary action 3. universal solvent 4. resistant to temperature change 5. expansion density

Question 39

what is the range for acids, base and neutral

Answer 39

acid - 7 and above neutral - 7 base - 7 and below

Question 40

what is the difference between a momomer and polymer?

Answer 40

a momomer is a building block and a polymer is the final product of the momomers up together

Question 41

what is photosynthesis?

Answer 41

when sunlight is turned into energy

Question 42

what is cellular respiration?

Answer 42

when glucose is turned into ATP

Question 43

what is cellular transport?

Answer 43

when particles pass through the cell membrane

Question 44

what is osmosis?

Answer 44

the movement of water from high to low concentration

Question 45

what is solute?

Answer 45

dissolved particles in water

Question 46

what is the difference between passive and active transport?

Answer 46

passive doesn't need energy and active does

Question 47

how many cells does mitosis make?

Answer 47

2

Question 48

how many does meiosis make?

Answer 48

4

Question 49

what is a gamete?

Answer 49

a sex cell

Question 50

what is the 1st part of the cell cycle? (the longest phase where the cell grows and the DNA is in the middle of the cell) (G1 - S - G2)

Answer 50

interphase

Question 51

what is the 2nd part of the cell cycle? (where the chromosomes start to be visible)

Answer 51

prophase (miosis)

Question 52

what is the 2nd phase of mitosis?

Answer 52

metaphase

Question 53

what is the 3rd phase of mitosis?

Answer 53

anaphase

Question 54

what is the 4th phase of mitosis?

Answer 54

telophase

Question 55

what is transcription?

Answer 55

when DNA unwinds into a single gene

Question 56

what is a phenotype?

Answer 56

what you look like

Question 57

what is a genotype?

Answer 57

what genes you have

Question 58

what is natural selection?

Answer 58

the theory of evolution that says a species changes over many generations not in a lifetime