Download Things to Study for the Spring Semester Final Vocabulary

Things to Study for the Spring Semester Final
Vocabulary
Word
Acid
Adaptation
Agricultural
Aquatic
Aquifer
Asexual reproduction
Beach
Biodiversity
Biomass
Biome
Canyon
Catastrophic
Chemical weathering
Chromosomes
Climax community
Compost
Condensation
Consumer
Contraction
Contraction
Delta
Deposition
Dichotomous key
Dissolution
Dominant trait
Downstream
Dune
Earthquake
Ecological succession
Ecoregion
Ecosystem
Energy pyramid
Erosion
Evacuated
Evaporation
Excessive
Definition
Substance that dissolves rock
Changes that help an organism survive and reproduce
Having to do with farming
Having to do with water
Underground water storage
One parent
Area along the shore covered with weathered rock bits
A variety of living things
Living or once living matter
Specific location with specific climate, plants, animals
Area carved into the earth’s surface by river erosion
Very, very bad
Acid rain or oxidation
Structures that hold the DNA (genes)
Final, stable stage of ecological succession
Decaying biomass
Water turning from vapor to liquid
Eats other things
Shortening
Shortening
Area of deposition caused by the slowing of the water
Drops of eroding material
Used to identify items with paired statements
Break apart – usually in liquid
Feature that is seen in an organism (phenotype)
Further in the direction the water flows
Build up of sand or other material due to the wind
Movement caused by plate tectonics
Gradual changes to an ecosystem over time
An specific area with specific plant, animals, climate
All the biotic and abiotic features in a particular area
Model showing energy movement in an ecosystem
Moving of weathered material
Moved to another area
Change of state from liquid to gas
Too much
Expansion
Exposed
Extensions
External
Extremely
Fertilizer
Flood
Food chain
Food web
Formation
Gene
Geologist
Geotropism
Germinate
Glacier
Gradient
Habitat
Heredity
Hurricane
Impact
Ingesting
Intensity
Internal
Mechanical weathering
Mountain
Mudslide
Natural selection
Negative
Nucleus
Nutrient
Percolation
Phenomenon
Photosynthesis
Phototropism
Pioneer species
Pollutant
Positive
Precipitation
Increase in amount or size
Showing, visible
Parts that stick out past the basic body
Outside
A lot
Chemicals used to increase plant growth
Too much water with nowhere to go
Producer, consumer, decomposer
Show overlapping food chains
Something created, e.g. cliff or canyon
DNA, determines traits of an offspring
Scientist who studies rocks and minerals
Plant growth in response to gravity
Begin to grow
Huge mass of ice
Scale that goes up
Where a particular organism lives
Passing on of traits from parent to offspring
Huge area of low pressure, giant storm
Hit
Take in
How strong or weak something is
Inside
Ice wedging, heating and contracting, plant roots, mass
wasting
Built up pile of rocks
Self-explanatory
Breeding without human interference
Opposite of; not good
Structure in a cell that contains the chromosomes
Organic matter that provides needed materials for an
organism
Movement of water down through soil and rock
Event
Process by which plants make sugar
Plant growth in response to light
First organism in an area
Something bad for the environment
Good
Water falling from the sky in any form
Primary succession
Producer
Recessive trait
Response
Run-off
Saffir-Simpson scale
Saturation
Secondary succession
Sediment
Selective breeding
Sexual reproduction
Stimulus
Sustainability
Tornado
Tributaries
Turgor pressure
Volcano
Water table
Watershed
Weathering
Begins with rocks
Plants
Not expressed trait
Reaction to a stimulus
Water moving downhill
Rates the intensity of Hurricanes
Completely full
Begins with soil already in place
Broken down substances that have settled somewhere
Human interference in the breeding process
Requires two parents
An action that causes a response
Continues on and on
Vortex of wind
Smaller streams that feed into larger streams
Water pressure that helps keep plants upright
Location where molten rock emerges from the earth
Water level underground
Land area that provides run-off for a fiver
Breaking down of rocks by mechanical or chemical
means
Questions:
1. Which ecoregion do we live in? Which aquifer is under us?
Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes; Gulf Coast
2. Give three examples of mechanical weathering.
Freezing, Thawing, Wind erosion, Wave erosion, Heating and Contraction, Plant roots,
gravity
3. What is one type of chemical weathering?
Acid rain, oxidation
4. Why are adaptations necessary?
For survival and reproduction
5. Write the equation for photosynthesis.
6. What are the reactants?
Water and carbon dioxide
7. What are the products?
Glucose (sugar) and oxygen
8. Which carries more sediment, a fast stream or a slow stream?
Fast stream
9. What is the correct scientific term for the downward movement of water through pores
and spaces in the soil? What force causes this to happen?
Percolation, gravity
10. List three ways that humans affect the environment.
Water pollution, air pollution, land pollution
11. Draw an illustration of the basic water cycle.
12. Draw an aquifer. Label the saturated zone, unsaturated zone and water table.
13. What feature can appear when the water table is as high as the Earth’s surface?
Springs, lakes, ponds
14. Which type of catastrophic event is most common in Texas?
Floods
15. Why do plants and animals need to adapt?
To survive and reproduce
16. What is the most measurable way to tell if biomass is decomposing in a compost bin?
Temperature changes – should increase
17. Use a non-plant example to explain turgor pressure.
Inflating bike tire
18. What are the function of roots?
Store food, absorb nutrients and water
19. What are the functions of leaves?
Make food
20. Which way should the arrows point in a food chain or food web?
Toward the organism getting the energy (towards the eater)
21. Draw a punnet square for a homozygous recessive mom and a heterozygous dad.
Other things to look over:
a. Biome movie list – know which kind of adaptations work in which biome
b. Look over any tests you have on heredity, adaptations, plants, food webs, catastrophic
events, photosynthesis – all the ones from January on.
c. Look over any labs you saved.