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gillambiology ch 1-6
crossword questions chapter 1-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ABYSSAL PLAIN | What is the flat bottom of the deep ocean called? |
| ACTIVATION | The energy required to start a chemical reaction is called the -?- energy. |
| ACTIVESITE | The -?- is what we call the area of an enzyme where the substrates bind to it. |
| ADHESION | The attraction of different types of molecules to each other is called -?- |
| AIR | The problem with Spallanzani's experiment is that the sealed flask not only kept germs out, but it also kept -?- out, so we could not be sure which was causing the microorganism not to grow in the gravy. |
| ALASKA | What state was most affected by the Exon Valdez oil spill? |
| ALGAE | What does a GIANT SNAIL eat? |
| ALIVE | According to appendix A, what is a common characteristic of both plants and animals? |
| ALL SCIENTISTS AGREE | What causes a theory to turn into a law? |
| AMINOACIDS | Proteins are made of monomers called -?- |
| ANIMALS | Saturated fats come from -?- |
| ANSWER QUESTIONS | What is the job of a scientist? |
| APHIDS | Ants and -?- often have a mutualistic relationship. |
| ARISTOTLE | What was the name of the Greek philosopher who answered questions (but did not test them) over 2000 years ago? |
| ATOMIC | What type of clock has a vibrating Cesium atom inside? |
| ATOMS | The number of -?- on the product side and the reactant side of a chemical equation must be the same. |
| AUTOTROPHS | Organisms that make their own COM are called -?-. |
| AVERAGE | The climate is a description of the -?- condition over many years. |
| BACTERIA | Figure 3-14 what organism removes nitrogen from the air? |
| BACTERIA | Some types of -?- can eat sulfur that come out of smoker at the bottom of the ocean. |
| BASE | Each nucleotide has three parts, a sugar, a phosphate group and a -?- |
| BIASED | -?- presentation of facts can mislead people, without lying. |
| BIODIVERSITY | -?- is never considered a renewable resource because once a species goes extinct it can never be replaced. |
| BIOLOGICAL | What type of pest control is sustainable? figure 6-8 |
| BIOSPHERE | What is the next level (bigger and more complex) of organization above biome? |
| BONDS | During all chemical reactions a change in the chemical -?- occurs. |
| BOREALFOREST | What biome has the greatest variation of temperature in a year? |
| CANCER | -?- cells are often the easiest to kill using radiation. |
| CAPTAIN PLANET | For thousands of years the most common belief was that matter was made of earth, fire, wind, water, (life), just like -?-. |
| CARBOHYDRATES | Both photosynthesis and chemosynthesis produce -?- |
| CARBON | Organic compounds always have two -?- atoms bonded together. |
| CARBON DIOXIDE | The amount of -?- in the air affects the climate of the earth. |
| CARBONIC ACID | Water and carbon dioxide react together to form -?- |
| CATALASE | By ANALYZING DATA we learn that acids have the greatest ability to stop the action of what enzyme? |
| CELLCULTURE | What is it called when a scientist grows cells in the laboratory? |
| CELLULOSE | A chemical in paper formed by chaining hundreds of glucose together. |
| CENTRIFUGE | A -?- is used to spin a test tube of broken cells during cell fractionation. |
| CFC | 30 years ago the over use of -?- had created a hole in the ozone layer that blocks harmful radiation. |
| CHANGED | According to appendix A, the control group consists of objects that are not -?-. |
| CHEMISTRY | The first job of a scientist is to understand the -?- of life of a GREAT EGRET. |
| CHEMISTRYKIT | What instrument could a scientist use to improve/replace his sense of taste? |
| CLASSIFYING | According to appendix A, -?- animals helps scientists understand living things better and discover relationships among them. |
| COHESION | The attraction of similar molecules to each other is called -?- |
| COM | Living things get energy to force reactions by breaking down -?- |
| COMMENSALISM | -?- occurs when two organism live closely together, one is benefitted and the other is unaffected. |
| COMMUNITY | A herd of Bison and a flock of Turkeys and a town of Prairie Dogs together form a -?- |
| COMMUNITY | What is the next level (bigger and more complex) of organization above population? |
| COMPOUND | What do we call two or more elements bonded together into a molecule? |
| COMPUTERS | Super -?- are know for their ability to MODEL and solve complex problems while predicting the future. |
| CONE | The age-structure demographic diagram of a population with high birt rate and high death rate will look like a -?- |
| CONFLICT OF INTEREST | There is a -?- when a scientist is motivated to find a particular answer in order to get more money or fame. |
| CONSERVATION | Zoos, national parks/wilderness, government regulations are all parts of man’s attempt at the -?- of species. |
| CONTROLLED | In a -?- experiment a scientist is trying to answer a question by comparing things. |
| COVALENT | What type of bond would usually form between two non-metals.? |
| CUP | According to appendix C, 236 milliliters is equal to 1 -?-. |
| CURRENT | The weather is a description of the -?- conditions in an area. |
| DEMOCRITUS | Who first believed that matter was made of Atoms? |
| DENSITY | The population -?- tells us how close together the individuals are. |
| DEPENDENT | According to appendix A, another name for the responding variable is the -?- variable. |
| DEPENDENT | Figure 5-5, in this diagram there are more density -?- factors limiting population growth. |
| DESCRIBE | The first step in dealing with global climate change is to accurately -?- what is happening. |
| DIFFUSION | What is it called when substances spread out moving from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration? |
| DISEASE | What density dependent factor apparently was limiting human population growth between 1000-1500 A.D. figure 5-10 |
| DISEASE | What density dependent factor apparently was limiting human population growth between 1000-1500 A.D. figure 5-10 |
| DISTURBANCES | What causes ecosystems to be constantly changing? figure 4-9 |
| DNA | The information to direct all life processes is carried by a molecule called -?- |
| ECOLOGY | The study of how organisms interact with their environments. |
| ELECTRON | Which sub-atomic particle has a negative charge? |
| ELECTRONS | The behavior of an atom depends on the number of -?- it has. |
| ENERGY | -?- flows through living systems like our biosphere. |
| ENERGY | -?- flows through living things, while matter is recycled. |
| ENZYMES | -?- function by reducing the activation energy of a reaction. |
| ESPA | What law was passed in 1966, that made it illegal to do harm species of animals that had a low and decreasing population. |
| EVOLUTION | The theory of -?- describes all life a being related by common ancestry. |
| EXPERIMENT | What is the fourth step of the scientific method? |
| EXPONENTIAL | -?- populations growth is never sustainable. |
| EXTINCTION | Loss of habitat is the number one cause of species -?-. |
| FALSE | There are thousands of different Atoms. (TRUTH or FALSE) |
| FALSE | Scientists try to use their 6 senses when making observations. (True or False) |
| FAST | Most of the resources on the Earth can be classified as renewable or nonrenewable based on how -?- we use them. |
| FEEDING | Figure 4-5, The different species of birds in a spruce tree occupy different niches because their -?- heights are different. |
| FISHBONE | By EXPLORING ECOLOGY FROM SPACE we see a -?- pattern of rain forest clearing in Brazil. |
| FISHES | Figure 3-8, what eats zooplankton? |
| FLIES | Francisco Redi proved that maggots were not spontaneously generated, but were the result of -?- laying eggs on the meat. |
| FORENSIC | What type of scientist is often called upon to testify as an expert witness. |
| FOSSIL FUELS | The maximum sustainable population of the Earth (at least for now) has been greatly increased by the use of -?-. |
| FOUR | How many calories are in 1 gram of sugar? |
| FOUR | Which graph on page 32 shows a population of flies that is not constantly changing? |
| FRUITFLY | According to DATA ANALYZING in ch-5, the carrying capacity of the -?- population is around 320 individuals. |
| FUEL | One man with a tractor and -?- can do the same work of 500 men 500 years ago. |
| GATHER | Animals must -?- COM |
| GECKO | What animal uses van der Waals forces to climb a wall. |
| GERMINATE | According to appendix A, observations seem to indicate that seeds will not -?- until they have been exposed to a period of low temperature. |
| GIBBOUS | According to appendix A, after a full moon comes an old -?- moon. |
| GIGA | What metric prefix means 1,000,000,000 (billion) |
| GLYCEROL | Lipids are made by connecting 3 fatty acid molecules to a -?- molecule. |
| GOLD | What element has 118 neutrons? |
| GRADUATED CYLINDAR | What instrument (tool) can a scientist use to measure volume? |
| GRAM | What is the metric unit of mass? |
| GRAPHS | What do scientists use to display and organize data? |
| GRAVITATIONAL PULL | An object’s weight is the amount of -?- |
| HABITAT | Loss of -?- is a limiting factor that is independent of density. |
| HEAT | The climate of an area is affected by how the -?- on the earth is transported by winds and water currents. |
| HETEROTROPHS | Organisms that collect COM from their environment are -?-. |
| HIGH | In Africa they often have a high birth rate and a -?- death rate, and thus a stable population size. |
| HOMEOSTASIS | Living things maintain -?- by keeping the conditions inside their body always the same. |
| HOMEOSTASIS | -?- is necessary in order to maintain proper conditions for enzyme function. |
| HORSE | According to appendix A, what animal can be wild or can be a pet? |
| HYDROGEN | Acids are chemicals that release -?- ions into a solution. |
| HYDROXIDE | Bases are chemicals that release -?- ions into a solution. |
| HYPOTHESIS | What word would best fill in the oval marked 1, in the diagram on page 30? |
| ILLUMINATOR | According to appendix D, what is the light on the bottom of a microscope called? |
| INDUSTRIAL | Human activities such as modern agriculture, hunting, and the -?- revolution have had a great impact on the Earth’s landscape. |
| ION | What do we call a charged atom? |
| ISOTOPES | The mass numbers on the chart are often not whole numbers because they represent the average of the different -?- |
| LARGE | When a controlled experiment cannot be done (for example testing the affects of radiation on people), scientist can still answer questions by studying -?- groups. |
| LATITUDE | The relative closeness of a location to the equator is known as the -?-, and has a great influence on the climate of that area. |
| LIGHT | The meter is defined by the distance -?-travels in 1/299,729,458 sec. |
| LIMITING | The biological productions of an ecosystem often depends on the availability of one nutrient known as the -?- factor. |
| LINE | What type of graph is used to display trends (changes over time)? |
| LIQUID | Water is unusual because it is a -?- at room temperature. |
| LITER | What is the metric unit of volume for liquids? |
| LOW | In Japan they have a low death rate and a -?- birth rate, and thus a stable population size. |
| LOWPOWER | According to appendix D, which lens should you use first when viewing a new specimen? |
| MAGNIFICATION | In the process of biological -?- DDT became concentrated enough in eagles to lower the birth rate. figure 6-16 |
| MANIPULATED | In an experiment it is important that the things being compared are the same in every way accept one, that difference is called the -?- variable. |
| MASS | Electrons are the sub-atomic particles with the least -?- |
| MATTER | The water, carbon, and nitrogen cycles show us how -?- changes from a used state to a usable state. |
| MEASURE | What do scientists do (while making observations) that produces all that data? |
| METER | What is the metric unit of length? |
| METRIC | All scientist use the -?-system. |
| MILLI | What metric prefix means 1/1,000 (thousandth)? |
| MIXTURE | What do we call two or more chemicals together, but not bonded? |
| MODELS | According to appendix A, -?- are usually made to help people understand natural objects and processes. |
| MOLECULES | What is the next level (bigger) of organization above atoms? |
| MOLECULES | The number of -?- on the product side and the reactant side of a chemical equation may be different. |
| MONOMERS | What do we call molecules that can be chained together? |
| MOOSES | Figure 5-7, were there more mooses or wolves in 1980? |
| MUTUALISM | Type of symbiosis where both organisms are benefitted? |
| NATURAL | Science attempts to find answers to questions based on the -?- world. |
| NEEDS | To lose weight you must eat fewer calories than your body -?- |
| NEUTRAL | A pH value of 7 would indicate -?- |
| NEUTRALIZATION | When an acid mixes with a base a -?- reaction occurs. |
| NEUTRON | Which sub-atomic particle has no charge? |
| NEUTRONS | Isotopes have the same name but a different number of -?- |
| NICHE | No two species can occupy the same -?- at the same time. |
| NINE | How many calories are in 1 gram of fat? |
| NITROGEN | An element in the Amino group of an amino acid? |
| NOP | Does the mass of an object change if we take it to the moon? (yes or nop) |
| NORTH | Figure 4-3, what direction do the water currents flow off the West coast of South America? |
| NOT | The most common element in the human body is Water. (NOT OR YES) |
| NOT | Light microscopes can only be used to view dead organisms. (yep or not) |
| NUCLEIC | DNA is an example of a -?- acid. |
| NUCLEICACIDS | -?- have the function telling the cell what traits it will have. |
| NUCLEOTIDES | The monomers used to make a DNA molecule are called -?- |
| NUCLEUS | Electrons are the only sub-atomic particles not in the -?- |
| NUMBER OF FLIES | What was the resultant variable in the experiment results shown in the graph on page 33? |
| OBJECTIVE | According to appendix D, what are the lenses called that sit closest to the specimen? |
| OBSERVATION | What is the first step of the scientific method? |
| ORGANIC | What does of “O” in COM stand for? |
| ORGANISM | Everything that happens in an -?- is based on chemical reactions. |
| PATTERNS | What are scientists looking for while making observations? |
| PERIWINKLE | What pink flower helps to treat cancer? figure 6-14 |
| PH | Buffers are chemicals that help control the -?- of a solution. |
| PHOTOSYNTHESIS | Figure 3-13, what is one process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? |
| PHYTOPLANKTON | What are the primary producers of COM in aquatic ecosystems? |
| PIE | What type of graph is use to compare the parts of something? |
| PIONEER | During ecological succession, a -?- species is the first to appear. |
| PLANTS | -?- make their own COM |
| POLAR | It is water’s -?- nature that makes it such a good solvent. |
| POLYMERIZATION | What do we call the process of putting together monomers? |
| PREDATION | -?- occurs when one organism catches and eats another. |
| PREDATORS | The removal of elk -?- from Yellowstone eventually resulted in a crash in the elk population. |
| PREDICT | The third step in dealing with global climate change is to accurately -?- how things will be changing. |
| PROTEIN | Enzymes are a type of -?- that cause chemical reactions. |
| PROTON | Today experiments continue using tools like the Large Hadron Collider, in order to learn what a -?- is really made of. |
| PROTONS | Elements are distinguished by the number of -?- they have. |
| PURIFICATION | The ecosystem provides us the service of -?- of water. figure 6-22 |
| PYRAMID | The biomass in a -?- goes down by 90% for every level you go up. |
| QUART | According to appendix C, a liter is a little more than 1 -?- |
| RADIOACTIVE | Some isotopes are unstable and -?-, so they can harm living cells. |
| REACTANTS | The substances consumed by chemical reaction are called the -?- |
| RECYCLED | Atoms are -?- by living systems like our biosphere. |
| REGULATIONS | Government -?- try to reduce the impact of human activities on the Earth to a sustainable level. |
| RENEWABLE | What type of energy sources will never run out? |
| RESPOND | All living things -?- to their environment. |
| RESPONDENT | Usually the results of an experiment are measured and that thing being measured is called the -?- variable. |
| SACCHARUM | What is the Latin word for sugar? |
| SALT | 97% of the water on the earth is -?- water. |
| SATURATED | -?- fats are completely filled with hydrogen atoms. |
| SEM | What type of microscope bounces electrons off the surface of a specimen. |
| SEQUENCE | Proteins can vary in length and -?- of amino acids. |
| SEXUAL | What type of reproduction requires two parent organisms? |
| SIX | How many carbons in 1 glucose molecule? |
| SOLUTION | What do we call a mixture that completely dissolves? |
| SOLVENT | Water is the greatest -?- on Earth. |
| SPECIES | In the early days of Yellowstone the caretakers did not understand the complex interactions between -?-. |
| SPONTANEOUS GENERATION | People once believed that life could appear suddenly from not living substances, this was called -?-. |
| SPONTANEOUSLY | Reactions that release energy may occur -?- |
| SPREAD OUT | Figure 4-2, at higher latitudes solar energy is more -?-. |
| SPRING SCALE | What instrument (tool) can a scientist use to measure weight? |
| STORE ENERGY | Lipids are best used to -?- in living things. |
| STRONGACID | A pH value of 2 would indicate a -?- |
| SUBSTRATES | The -?- are the reactants of an enzyme caused reaction. |
| SULFURDIOXIDE | What chemical comes from industry smoke stacks (burning coal) and contributes to the problem of acid rain? ch-6 |
| SURFACE | Hydrogen bonds are responsible for the cohesion of water molecules that create -?- tension. |
| SUSPENSION | What type of mixture would cloudy substances like blood, and milk be? |
| SUSTAINABLE | A high birth rate and low death rate is not -?-. |
| TEM | What type of microscope shines electrons through a thin specimen? |
| TEMPERATE FOREST | What type of biome does Germany have? |
| TEMPERATURE | A climate chart shows the -?- and the rainfall for each month. |
| TEMPERATURE | What was the manipulated variable in the experiment on page 27? |
| TEN | What is the pH of soap? |
| TESTED | The answers given by scientists are not accepted until they are -?- by experiments over and over again. |
| TEST HYPOTHESIS | Why do scientist do experiments? |
| THERMOMETER | What instrument (tool) can a scientist use to measure temperature? |
| THOUSAND | Figure 3-7 (and the 10x rule) it would take 300 -?- pounds of algae to sustain a 30 pound shark? |
| THREE | If you had a glass with 1650 million molecules of water, how many would be broken into hydrogen and hydroxide ions? pg 42 |
| TROPICAL SAVANNA | What biome is always warm and has the most rainfall in May? |
| TRUTH | There are thousands of different Molecules. (TRUTH or FALSE) |
| TWELVE | How many calories are in 3 grams of protein? |
| TWENTY | There are more than -?- different amino acids used to make a proteins. |
| TWISTED | The second level of protein structure has to do with the way the chain is -?- |
| TWO | What would the density be of an object with the following measurements? mass is 20 grams volume is 10 cc length is 20 cm temperature is 30° C |
| UNIVERSITIES | Where do most scientists work? |
| UNLIMITED | In the presence of -?- resources, a population can grow exponentially. |
| VANDERWAALS | What are the forces called that attract molecules to each other? |
| VOLUME | What measurement is the amount of space an object takes up? |
| WEAKBASE | A pH value of 7.4 would indicate a -?- |
| WEBS | Food -?- are often used to illustrate who eats what because food chains are often not linear. |
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