Unit 1

Question 1

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 1

The thing that you dont change in your experiment

Question 2

What is Biology?

Answer 2

The study of al living things

Question 3

What are organisms?

Answer 3

Living things

Question 4

What is cytoplasm?

Answer 4

A gel like material that all cells contain

Question 5

What are organelles?

Answer 5

A part of the cell that does different jobs

Question 6

What are prokaryotic cells?

Answer 6

They are single celled organisms that lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles

Question 7

What are eukaryotes?

Answer 7

Has a true nucleus and membrane-bound organelles

Question 8

What is DNA?

Answer 8

DNA carries the genetic code for all organisms

Question 9

What is an indepent variable?

Answer 9

The thing that you change in your experiment

Question 10

What is a Biotic factor?

Answer 10

All the living organisms that inhabit an enviorment

Question 11

What are Abiotic factors?

Answer 11

The nonliving parts of an organisms enviorment

Question 12

What is a habitat?

Answer 12

The place a plant or animal lives

Question 13

What is a Niche?

Answer 13

An organism’s total way of life

Question 14

What is population?

Answer 14

A group of organisms that are all of the same speices, which interbreed and live in the same place at the same time

Question 15

What is a community?

Answer 15

All the populations of different speices that live in the same place at the same time

Question 16

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 16

Populations of plants and animals that interact with each other in a given area with the abiotic componets of that area

Question 17

What is the biosphere?

Answer 17

The portion of earth that supports life

Question 18

What is a herbivore?

Answer 18

Only eats plants

Question 19

What is an omnivore?

Answer 19

Eats both plants and meat

Question 20

What is a carnivore?

Answer 20

Only eats meat

Question 21

What is symbosis?

Answer 21

An interaction between two different organisms living in close association.

Question 22

What is mutualism?

Answer 22

Beneficial to both organsims involved

Question 23

What is commensalism?

Answer 23

The association between two organisms in which one benefits and one is neither helped not harmed.

Question 24

What is parasitism?

Answer 24

One orgainsim benfits and one is harmed

Question 25

What are producers?

Answer 25

Producers are plants that make their own food.

Question 26

What is ecology?

Answer 26

The relations of organisms to one another and their surroundings.

Question 27

What's a consumer?

Answer 27

Animals that can't make their own food so they need to comsume other plants and/or animals.

Question 28

What is biodiversity?

Answer 28

The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

Question 29

What is a decomposer?

Answer 29

An organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertbrate, that decomposes organic material.

Question 30

What is a food web?

Answer 30

A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

Question 31

What is a food chain?

Answer 31

A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

Question 32

What is an energy pyramid?

Answer 32

Its a model of energy flow in a community. The different levels represent different groups.

Question 33

What are limiting factors?

Answer 33

Something that doesn't let the population grow any farther

Question 34

What is primary succession?

Answer 34

Where an area of vegetation and other organisms are lacking soil

Question 35

What is secondary succession?

Answer 35

When the soil was good and then it and the land gets damaged

Question 36

What is a theory?

Answer 36

What someone thinks is going to happen

Question 37

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 37

An assumption or guess of what will happen

Question 38

What is a prediction?

Answer 38

Declare or tell in advance

Question 39

What is the scientific method?

Answer 39

A six step procedure for performing scientific investigation

Question 40

What is a control group?

Answer 40

A group of organisms that are treated the same way for an experiment

Question 41

What is an experimental group?

Answer 41

A group of organisms that receive the experimental treatment

Question 42

What is an observation?

Answer 42

To analyze something

Question 43

What is a cell?

Answer 43

The structural, functional, and biological unit of all organisms

Question 44

What is a tissue?

Answer 44

An aggregate of cells in an organism that have similar structure and function

Question 45

What is an organ?

Answer 45

A group of tissues that perform a specific function or group of functions

Question 46

What is an experiment?

Answer 46

A procedure done for the purpose of gathering observations, data, or facts

Question 47

What is development?

Answer 47

A series of changes in an organism

Question 48

What is organization?

Answer 48

The act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action

Question 49

What does multicellular mean?

Answer 49

Having or consisting of many cells

Question 50

What does unicellular mean?

Answer 50

Having or consisting of only one cell

Question 51

What does metabolism mean?

Answer 51

The process involving a set of chemical reactions that modifies a molecule into another for storage, or for immediate use in another reaction or as a by product

Question 52

What is homeostasis?

Answer 52

The ability of the body or a cell to seek and maintain a condition of stability within its internal environment when dealing with external changes

Question 53

What is evolution?

Answer 53

The change in genetic composition of a population over successive generations, which may be caused by natural selection, inbreeding, hybridization, or mutation.

Question 54

What is adaption?

Answer 54

A modification according to changing circumstances

Question 55

What's natural selection?

Answer 55

When organisms are adapted to their environment and go through things normally in the environment

Question 56

What is reproduction?

Answer 56

The production of offspring