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Key Idea 1
Review Questions
Key Idea 1: Living things are both similar to and
different from each other and from nonliving things
Ecology
1.)
What can be categorized by the function they serve?
2.)
What identifies the relationships among producers,
consumers, and decomposers?
3.)
What type of nutrition do plants carry out?
4.)
What is shaped by the nonliving environment, as well
as its interacting species?
5.)
A wide diversity of physical conditions in the world,
creates a variety of what?
6.)
What do organisms compete for in all environments?
7.)
What do linked and changing interactions of
populations and the environment make up?
8.)
What, in an established ecosystem, will result in
stability over hundreds of years?
9.)
What tends to show cyclic changes around a state of
equilibrium, like many other complex systems?
10.)
What is linked directly or indirectly with others, in
an ecosystem?
11.)
What can disruptions in the number’s and types of
species, and environmental changes do?
12.)
What types of organisms are found at the beginning of
every food chain/ food web?
13.)
What organisms are not always seen in an ecosystem,
but must be there in order for the ecosystem to function?
14.)
What happens to energy as it flows through the
ecosystem?
15.)
What chemical reaction do producers carry out?
Anatomy
1.)
What are the levels of organization for structure and
function of an organism?
2.)
What do the systems of the body interact to do?
3.)
What do the components of the human body interact to
maintain?
4.)
What may there be an imbalance in, if there is a
disruption in any human system?
5.)
What do the organs and systems help provide with their
basic needs?
6.)
What system is responsible for breaking down food?
7.)
What system is responsible for movement of blood?
8.)
What system is responsible for breathing?
9.)
What system is responsible for continuation of the
species?
10.)
What system is responsible for getting rid of waste?
11.)
What system is responsible for movement?
12.)
What system is responsible for fighting off disease?
13.)
How are different cells of the body grouped together?
14.)
What are complex organisms?
15.)
What are the structures within cells called?
Cells
1.)
What has particular structures that perform specific
jobs?
2.)
What is each cell covered by, that performs the
following functions: separation from the outside
environment, controls which molecules enter and leave a
cell, and recognition of chemical signals?
3.)
What processes move materials in and out of the cell?
4.)
What, when dissolved in cells, will allow necessary
chemical reactions to take place in order to maintain life?
5.)
What must happen to large food molecules like proteins
and starches, in order to enter cells?
6.)
What does a cell use as building blocks in the
synthesis of compounds necessary for life?
7.)
What organelle carries out cellular respiration
(extracts energy from nutrients)?
8.)
What organelle builds proteins?
9.)
What organelle removes wastes from the cell?
10.)
What organelle is responsible for storage?
11.)
What organelle controls the cell’s activities?
12.)
What plays an important role in the interaction
between cells?
13.)
What are the two primary goals of cellular
communication?
14.)
If nerve or hormone signals are blocked, what is
disrupted that can affect an organism’s stability?
15.)
What structures are present in some single-celled
organisms that enable them to perform all life processes
needed to maintain homeostasis?