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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.