Review for exam #2

What are the building blocks of life?

• prokaryotes

• cells

• eukaryotes

• none of the above

Something that was never alive and never will be is considered

• dead

• dormant

• nonliving

• living

Power of the ocular lens times the power of the objective lens is

• its focus

• area

• total magnification

• diameter

Any thing that causes an organism to react is

• a response

• a prokaryote

• a stimulus

• semipermeable

The first person to see "living" cells was

• Robert Hooke

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

An example of a simple microscope is

• a compound light microscope

• the Hubble telescope

• a magnifying glass

• a scanning electron microscope

All the living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things that surround an organism is the

• population

• community

• field of view

• environment

The area you see when looking into a microscope is the

• field of view

• ocular lens

• fine adjustment knob

• objective lens

Has the potential for life but is waiting for the right conditions is

• homeostasis

• nonliving

• dead

• dormant

Evidence is

• dormant

• a niche

• proof

• semipermeable