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Grade 9 Applied Science – 2015 Exam Practice
The following is a set up
“Flip Card”
to help learn the definitions
of the ecosystem unit
Grade 9 Applied Science – 2015 Exam Practice
Ecosystem
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All living organisms that share
a region and interact with
each other AND non-living
components of their
environment…that is,
their physical and chemical
environment
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Biotic Factor
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Living things, their remains and
features such as nest that are
associated with the living thing’s
activities.
It includes insects, mammals,
micro-organisms, plants, plant
and animal remains, etc.
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Abiotic Factor
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The non-living physical and
chemical components of an
ecosystem.
Examples include
temperature, wind, rainfall, air,
water and minerals
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Autotroph
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An organism capable of
synthesizing its own food from
inorganic substances using
light or chemical energy.
Green plants, algae and some
bacteria are autotrophs.
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Heterotroph
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An organism that cannot
synthesize its own food and is
dependent on complex organic
substances for nutrition.
Consumers are heterotrophs
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Sustainability
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Ability to maintain a natural
ecological balance without
weakening, interruption or
loss of value
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Commensalism
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A symbiotic relationship between two
different kinds of organisms when one
receives benefits from the other organism
while the second organism in unaffected.
An example a flatworm and a horsecrab.
The flatworm attaches to the horsecrab
and eats the scraps from the crab’s food;
yet, the crab is unaffected
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Photosynthesis
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Process in which the Sun’s
energy is converted to
chemical energy (i.e.,
sugar)
6CO2 + 6H2O + Sun energy
=
6O2 + C6H12O6
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Producer
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Organism that makes its own
energy-rich food compounds
using the Sun’s energy
(i.e., light)
On land, most producers are
green plants, and their colour
comes from chlorophyll which
captures light energy
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Consumer
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Organism that obtains its
energy from consuming other
organisms.
Consumers CANNOT
photosynthsize
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Food Chain
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Sequence of organisms, each feeding
on the next, shown how energy is
transferred from one organism to the
next.
NOTE:
Food Chains do NOT exist in nature.
Rather, they are part of a complex set
of relationships
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Food Web
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A representation or
illustration of the
feeding relationships
within a community.
A Food Web is a
group of interwoven
Food Chains
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Carrying Capacity
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The maximum population size of a
particular species (i.e., number of
individual organisms) that a given
ecosystem can sustain indefinitely
NOTE:
Carrying Capacity is not fixed.
It can be altered by human intervention
(e.g., draining part of a swamp) or by
naturally by “species invasions”
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Biodiversity
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Variety of life in a particular area.
It is measured by counting the
number of species in a specific
habitat or ecosystem
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Tolerance Range
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Abiotic conditions within
which a species can
survive
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Limiting Factor
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Any factor that restricts the size of
a population
Limiting factors can be biotic
(e.g., number of prey) or abiotic
(e.g., hours of sunlight)
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Theory that the Universe began in
an incredibly hot, dense
expansion from a singularity
about 14 BYA
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Big Bang Theory
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A region of space having a
gravitational field so intense that
no matter or radiation can escape
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Black Hole
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Lunar Eclipse
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An eclipse in which the moon
appears darkened as it passes
into the earth's shadow.
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A large, round celestial object that
travels around a star and controls
its own neighbourhood
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Planet
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A dark area on the Sun’s surface
that is cooler than the area
surrounding it
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Sun Spot
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A massive collection of gases in
space that emits large amounts of
energy
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Star
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When the Moon passes between
the Sun and the Earth so that it
blocks some or all of the Sun’s
light
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Solar Eclipse
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Solar Eclipse
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Gases and charged particles that
are blasted above an active region
of the Sun’s photosphere
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A cloud of gas and dust in outer
space where stars are born
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Nebula
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The distance that light travels in
one year
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Light Year
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150,000,000 kilometres
The distance from the Sun to
Earth
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Astronomical Unit
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A measurement of how bright an
object would be if it were 33 light
years from Earth
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Absolute Magnitude
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The total amount of energy
emitted by a star, galaxy or other
astronomical object per unit time.
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Luminosity
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Most of the stars in the universe
(about 90%) that are fusing
hydrogen atoms to form helium
atoms in their cores.
Our Sun belongs to this grouping
of stars
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Main Sequence Stars
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Subatomic particle found in the
nucleus with a positive charge
and a mass of 1
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Proton
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A substance made by combining
two or more different materials in
such a way that no chemical
reaction occurs (i.e., chemicals
that are not chemically bonded
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Mixture
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Maximum number of electrons in
Orbit #2 of an atom
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Eight
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Number of protons is five, number
of electrons is five and the
number of neutrons is six. Thus,
the ATOMIC MASS is….
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11
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Characteristics of electrons
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Negative charge
Located in shells around nucleus
No mass
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A substance formed when two or
more chemical elements are
chemically bonded together
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Compound
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Number of electrons that
Potassium (K) must give away to
achieve a stable electron
configuration
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One
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Elements tend to combine in
such a way that each atom has
eight electrons in its valence shell
or
The name of the outer orbit shell
of electrons
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Octet
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Substances that contain only one
kind of molecule. For example,
water contains nothing but water
molecules.
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Pure Substance
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When an element give or takes an
electron, it becomes an….
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Ion
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Chemical name for NaCl
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Sodium chloride
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Chemical name for MgCl2
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Magnesium chloride
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Chemical formula for
lithium sulfide
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Li2S
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A substance that is made entirely
from one type of atom
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Element
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Metallic elements found in the
Group #2 of the periodic table.
They have an oxidation number of
+2, making them very reactive.
Due to their reactivity, the alkaline
metals are not found free (i.e., by
themselves) in nature.
They are all shiny, silvery-white
solid metals.
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Alkaline Earth Metals
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Five ways you know a chemical
reaction has happened
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Colour change
Heat or light produced
Odour (smell) produced
Gas produced
Solid precipitate forms from
two liquids
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Subatomic particle with no
charge, mass = 1, and found
inside the nucleus
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Neutron
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Type of bond where one element
gives an electron and one element
takes an electrons
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Ionic Bond
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Non-metallic elements Group #17.
All have seven electrons in their
outer shell of electrons. At room
temperature, they exist in three
states of matter (e.g., Fluorine is a
gas at room temperature while
Bromine is a liquid)
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Halogen Gas
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Number of electrons is 19,
number of protons is 19 and the
number of neutrons is 20. Thus,
the ATOMIC NUMBER is….
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19
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Atomic Mass =
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Number of protons
+
Number of neutrons
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Any of the elements in Group #18
including helium, neon, argon,
krypton, xenon and radon which
have a full octet of electrons in
their outer shell so that are
electronically stable (i.e., do not
react). They are also called inert
gas.
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Noble Gases