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BASIC LIFE SCIENCE
CARMALT - Basic Life Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stages: egg - larva - pupa - adult | metamorphosis |
| What part of a seedling provides food for the seeding? | endosperm |
| What are the 4 parts of a seedling? | seed coat, endosperm, cotyledon, embryo |
| A population of moths has dark and light colored moths. If all the trunks of forest trees are blackened during a fire, which color moth will survive in great numbers? | dark-colored |
| Any carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on 2 legs with small forelimbs and a large skull, long jaw and sharp teeth. | theropod |
| What creatures live at the expense of other organisms? | parasites |
| What type of relationship do two organism have when both live together and benefit each other? | symbiotic |
| What symbiotic relationship is characterized by one organism benefits from the relationship while the other is unaffected? | commensal |
| What kingdom has no chlorophyll, reproduces with spores, and consists mostly of decomposers? | fungi |
| What phylum has jointed legs, segmented bodies, and external skeletons? | anthropoda |
| What are environments with like climates and ecological communities called? | biomes |
| _______ are where fresh water and salt water mix. | estuaries |
| What type of forest is made up primarily of trees that annually shed their leaves? | decidious |
| What are the dominant plants in grasslands? | grass |
| What is annual rainfall in grasslands? | between 25 cm and 75 cm |
| What takes any shape it wants, is only one cell big and likes to ooze? | amoeba |
| What prefers to live on rocks and belongs to 2 kingdoms? | lichen |
| Clues: larger than a virus, smaller than a blood cell, tail called a flagellum | bacterium |
| water loss through leaves | transpiration |
| liquid or frozen water falls from sky | precipitation |
| oil and gas | fossil fuels |
| breakdown carbon compounds like CO2 and water | respiration |
| energy producing organelle in a cell | mitochrondrion |
| organelle that helps break down a dead cell | lysosome |
| organelle that helps assemble proteins | ribosome |
| What is this process: 6CO2 + 6H2O becomes C6H12O6 + 6O2 | chemical formula for green plant photosynthesis |
| What is this process: C6H12O6 + 6O2 becomes 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy | chemical formula for respiration in plants and animals |
| cell division phase has all chromosomes lined up in the middle of the cell | metaphase |
| cell devision phase when chromosomes pull apart | anaphase |
| cell division phase when nuclear membrane disappears | prophase |
| cell production of 2 cells with the same number of chromosomes | mitosis |
| cell production yields 4 cells with half the chromosomes of the parent cell | meiosis |
| wavelike muscular contraction by which digestive contents are forced toward the opening | peristalsis |
| part of digestive system that is home to microbes and soaks up water | large intestines |
| controls response to invading microorganisms | immune system |
| system that exchanges gas between air and body | respiratory system |
| breaks down food and absorbs nutrients | digestive system |
| system provides support and stores minerals | skeletal system |
| 4 major human blood groups | A, B, AB, O |
| blood cells that play role in defense of the body | white blood cells |
| gland that increases metabolic rate and maintains calcium and potassium levels in blood | thyroid gland |
| master gland regulating all other glands | hypothalamus |
| gland elevates heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, and breathing, but suppresses digestion | adrenal gland |
| gland regulating immune system | thymus gland |
| hollow ball of cells in early animal development | blastula |
| tissue eventually forms muscles | mesoderm |
| tissue forms nerve cells | ectoderm |
| tissue forms digestive system | endoderm |
| stage of a fern producing gametes | gametophyte |
| adult, spore producing fern | sporophyte |
| structure holding spores | annulus |
| What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon, and 3 legs at sunset? (metaphor about human development) | baby crawls on 4 legs, adult stands on 2 legs, elder stands with aid of a cane |
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