Chapter 6 Review

Question 1

How does life continue to form new organisms?

Answer 1

Reproduction

Question 2

What is it called when one organism is better suited for an environment than another?

Answer 2

Natural selection

Question 3

What is the name of early seed growth?

Answer 3

Germination

Question 4

The CNS contains?

Answer 4

brain, brain stem, and spinal cord

Question 5

What is the name for an organism’s home?

Answer 5

habitat

Question 6

What is the filmy bacteria on teeth?

Answer 6

plaque

Question 7

Angiosperm seeds are inside of?

Answer 7

fruits

Question 8

Legumes are part of what plant family?

Answer 8

Pea

Question 9

What says that life is from chance and natural processes?

Answer 9

evolution

Question 10

What is the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma

Answer 10

pollination

Question 11

How do plants make food?

Answer 11

photosynthesis

Question 12

What is the moment of water from a high % to a lower percentage through a one way semi permeable membrane?

Answer 12

osmosis

Question 13

The sum of all bodily activities?

Answer 13

Metabolism

Question 14

Tiny air sacs in the lungs are called?

Answer 14

Alveoli

Question 15

Who was the Father of Anatomy?

Answer 15

Vesalius

Question 16

What is it called when more than one leaf is attached to a petiole

Answer 16

Compound

Question 17

What term refers to the similarities of design?

Answer 17

Homology

Question 18

What is the largest part of the brain?

Answer 18

Cerebrum

Question 19

Who used broth to disprove spontaneous generation?

Answer 19

Louis Pasteur

Question 20

What term refers to a tail that is capable of grabbing?

Answer 20

prehensile

Question 21

What is an untested explanation to a scientific problem?

Answer 21

hypothesis

Question 22

What term says that the present is the key to the past?

Answer 22

uniformitarianism

Question 23

Creation without variation since the beginning is what view?

Answer 23

lawn view

Question 24

What type of symmetry can be cut in half multiple ways?

Answer 24

radial

Question 25

A plant that lives for only 1 year?

Answer 25

annual

Question 26

The type of fracture that pierces the skin?

Answer 26

compound

Question 27

Flora means

Answer 27

flower/plant

Question 28

What is the variation within a species’ gene pool called?

Answer 28

speciation

Question 29

A strong feeling expressed in a physical way?

Answer 29

emotion

Question 30

A sudden permanent change to DNA.

Answer 30

mutation

Question 31

Poor nutrition due to a poor diet?

Answer 31

malnutrition

Question 32

The observed factor to determine results of an experiment?

Answer 32

dependent

Question 33

Hormones come from what system?

Answer 33

endocrine

Question 34

The lower chambers of the heart are called?

Answer 34

ventricles

Question 35

What food group contains sugar and starch?

Answer 35

carbohydrates

Question 36

The __________________ filters blood and stores extra glucose.

Answer 36

liver

Question 37

The _____________________ carry blood back to the heart.

Answer 37

veins

Question 38

The layer of skin directly above the dermis?

Answer 38

epidermis

Question 39

The body system that breaks down food into nutrients?

Answer 39

digestive

Question 40

What group of drugs is alcohol?

Answer 40

depressant

Question 41

__________________________ activities strengthen the heart and lungs?

Answer 41

aerobic

Question 42

What system controls bodily function?

Answer 42

nervous

Question 43

A disease caused by a pathogen?

Answer 43

infectious

Question 44

What is the most commonly abused hallucinogen?

Answer 44

marijuana

Question 45

Who wrote Origin of Species?

Answer 45

Charles Darwin

Question 46

Evolution with short, rapid bursts of change followed by periods of no change?

Answer 46

punctuated equilibrium

Question 47

An originally created type of organism?

Answer 47

kind