Week 11

Question 1

Mechanoreceptors

Answer 1

Respond to mechanical force

Question 2

Chemoreceptors

Answer 2

Respond to specific chemicals

Question 3

Electromagnetic receptors

Answer 3

Respond to electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields

Question 4

Thermoreceptors

Answer 4

Respond to temperature

Question 5

Pain receptors

Answer 5

Respond to damaged tissue

Question 6

What receptors can be found in your skin

Answer 6

Mechanoreceptors, thermoreceptors, pain receptors

Question 7

Lateral line system

Answer 7

Series of small openings in a side of a fish (kind of mechanoreceptor)

Question 8

5 types of chemoreceptors in your mouth

Answer 8

Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami receptors

Question 9

Retina is where you have the

Answer 9

Actual photo receptors

Question 10

Choroid

Answer 10

Blocks light and feeds the retina

Question 11

Sclera

Answer 11

Protects the eye and gives it shape

Question 12

Cornea

Answer 12

Starts the process of focusing light

Question 13

Aqueous humour

Answer 13

Constantly replaced, feeds the cornea and the lens

Question 14

Iris

Answer 14

Controls the amounts of light that gets in your pupil (pigmented colour of your eye)

Question 15

Pupil

Answer 15

Hole in the iris

Question 16

Lens

Answer 16

Adjusts the focus

Question 17

Rod

Answer 17

Responds to a wide range of colours, black and white vision, very sensitive, 125 million rods

Question 18

Cone

Answer 18

Three kinds, respond to green, red or blue light, colour vision, relatively insensitive, 6 million cones

Question 19

Optic nerve

Answer 19

No photoreceptors

Question 20

Ecology

Answer 20

The study of how organisms interact with their environment, understand the distribution and abundance of organisms, the focus of study is different

Question 21

Organism

Answer 21

Individual living system

Question 22

Population

Answer 22

Group of organisms of the same species living in an area

Question 23

Community

Answer 23

A group of populations in an area

Question 24

Ecosystem

Answer 24

A community plus the non living environment in which it lives

Question 25

Landscape

Answer 25

A mosaic of connected ecosystems

Question 26

Biosphere

Answer 26

The sum of all the planets landscapes

Question 27

Organismal ecology

Answer 27

Including evolutionary ecology and behavioural ecology, focuses on how an organisms anatomy, physiology and behaviour meet the challenges imposed by its environment

Question 28

Population ecology

Answer 28

Focuses on the factors that influence population size

Question 29

Community ecology

Answer 29

Focuses on how interactions between species influence community structure

Question 30

Ecosystem ecology

Answer 30

Focuses on energy flow and nutrient cycling

Question 31

Landscape ecology

Answer 31

Focuses on exchange of energy, materials and organisms among ecosystems

Question 32

Global ecology

Answer 32

Focuses on the distribution and function of ecosystems across the biosphere

Question 33

Behavioral ecology

Answer 33

The study of the ecological and evolutionary basis for animal behaviour