Question | Answer |
The three stages of a seed plants life cycle are_______________. | Seed, Seedling, and Adult |
The meaning of biotic. | living |
The meaning of a-biotic. | non-living |
What is photosynthesis? | The process of a plant making it's own food |
What are the four categories of biotic things? | Consumers, producers, decomposers, and scavengers |
Plants provide what two things? | Oxygen and food |
Pollination is: | The joining of pollen and ovary |
Each _____________ performs a specific function. | Structure |
____________ helps plants get what they need from the environment. | Adaptation |
The five ways plants reproduce without using seeds: | Runners, suckers, rhizomes, cuttings, and graftings |
Seed plants have what five things? | Roots, stems, leaves, and either flowers or cones |
Life processes in plants include these three things: | Photosynthesis, transpiration, and gas exchange (cellular respiration) |
Plants are used for what four things? | Food, fibre, medicine, and other products |
What is igneous rock? | Rock formed when magma solidifies, can be intrusive or extrusive |
What are sedimentary rocks? | Rocks formed by the compacting of sediments |
What are metamorphic rocks? | Rocks (either igneous or sedimentary) formed when heat and pressure turns them into another type of rock |
What is weathering? | The breakdown of rocks. |
What is amber? | Fossilized tree sap |
The three different types of soil are: | Clay, sand, and loam |
What is function? | The use of a structure |
What are the three types of structure? | Shell, frame, and solid |
Ecosystems contain both ____________ and _____________ parts. | Biotic and a-biotic |
These change because of bioinvasion, human activity, resource competition, weather, and predators. | Ecosystems |
These provide all needs for living things. | Ecosystems |
Water, energy, food, exchange of gases, space, and waste disposal are examples of this. | Basic needs |
A symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed. | Parisitism |
These allow energy from the sun to flow. | Food webs |
This cycle includes condensation, evaporation, transpiration, and precipitation. | Water cycle |
This cycle includes photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and consumers. | Carbon cycle |
This group of chemicals is deadly as they enter and move through ecosystems. | Pesticides |
This is where a-biotic and biotic factors interact. | Ecosystems |
Commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism are examples of this. | Symbiotic relationships |
A symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is not affected. | Commensalism |
A symbiotic relationship where both species benefit. | Mutualism |
What is the process in which large particles cross the cell membrane? | Active transport |
What do you call the appearance of a structure? | Aesthetics |
What do you call the number of different species in an environment? | Biodiversity |
What is a structure only supported at one end? | Cantilever |
What do you call many populations of different species living in the same place? | Community |
What do call the process of eroded minerals being settled by wind, water or ice. | Deposition |
What do you call layers of sediment? | Strata |
What temperature is the freezing point? | 0 degrees celsius |
What temperature is boiling point? | 100 degrees celsius |
What is the imaginary point where the force of gravity acts called? | The center of gravity |
What is the green part of a chloroplast that catches the suns energy? | Chlorophyll |
What is the structure in a plant cell that make photosynthesis happen? | Chloroplasts |
What do you call the introduction of a non-native species into a community? | Biodiversity |
What is used in current school thermometers? | Coloured alchohol |
What used to be used in school thermometers? | Mercury |
What do you call a nutrient mix made of chemicals? | Chemical fertilizer |
What do you call the movement of liquid up a narrow tube? | Capillary action |
What is another word for the earth's surface? | Earth's crust |
What is the process in which particles move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration? | Diffusion |
What is the process that moves particles (sediments, soil, etc.) from one place to another? | Erosion |
What do you call underwater mountain ranges | Ridges |
What do you call the force that occurs when one object rubs against another object? | Friction |
What do you call large cracks in rocks or in the earth's crust? | Faults |
What is the term for partly decomposed materials from plants or animals? | Humus |
What is the technology used for growing plants without soil called? | Hydroponics |
What do call fossils used to identify a particular era? | Index fossils |
What is the process of watering crops? | Irrigation |
What do you call molten rock inside a volcano? | Magma |
What do you call molten rock outside a volcano? | Lava |
What are the stages any organism goes through from one generation to the next called? | Life cycle |
What do you call a plant that grows naturally in an environment? | Native plant |
What is 1 Newton equal to in grams? | 100 grams |
What do you call a mixture of nutrients prepared from natural resources? | Organic fertilizer |
What do you call particles in soil that were once living? | Organic particles |
What do you call the movement of water across the cell membrane? | Osmosis |
What is another word for a biotic thing? | Organism |
What do you call the practice of growing only one type of crop in a large area? | Monoculture |
What do you call scientists that study fossils and other elements of life from long ago? | Paleontologists |
What are tiny openings in the cell membranes of plant cells called? | Pores |
What do you call the conditions a structure must meet? | Performance requirements |
What do you call the formation of a new community in which was once a barren habitat? | Primary succession |
What do you call features that a material or object has? | Properties |
What do you call formation of a new community in a destroyed or greatly changed community? | Secondary succession |
What is the name of the device that detects shock waves caused by earthquakes? | Seismograph |
What do you call the force that acts to push that are in contact with each other in opposite directions | Shear |
What do you call the colour of the powder left behind by rubbing a mineral on the back of a tile? | Streak |
What do you call the way a mineral breaks in sheets? | Cleavage |
What do you call the way a mineral breaks unevenly? | Fracture |