BIO FALL SEMESTER FINAL 2024

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What is the independent variable in an experiment investigating the effect of carbon dioxide on plant height?

Back

The amount of carbon dioxide in each container.

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What do calories, kilocalories, and joules measure?

Back

Energy.

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Natural disasters such as flooding and tornadoes are linked to what type of ecosystem change?

Back

Secondary.

Front

What are producers in an ecosystem?

Back

Organisms that can make their own food, usually green plants.

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What is the process of plants losing water through their leaves called?

Back

Transpiration.

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Define 'ecosystem'.

Back

A community of living organisms and their physical environment interacting as a system.

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What is photosynthesis?

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The process by which green plants use sunlight to synthesize foods with the help of chlorophyll.

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What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem?

Back

They break down dead organic material, returning nutrients to the soil.

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What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?

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Primary succession occurs in lifeless areas, while secondary succession occurs in areas where a disturbance has destroyed an existing community.

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What is a food chain?

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A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.