Biology - Semester 1 Review - Part 1

What is population?

• Is all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.

• It shows a savannah ecosystem in Africa.

• Some plants and animals have adapted to the limited water supply.

• Is all the living and non living things in an environment and the many ways they interact.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a living thing?

• Energy Use

• Movement/

  Response to Stimuli

• Growth and Developement

• Reproduction

• Generating body heat

An individual living things,such as animals or a plants,is called an

• Animal

• plant

• Organism

• Nutrition

What are the living and nonliving things in an environment or area?

• biotic factors

• habitat

• ecosystem

• abiotic factors

What is the study of life that seeks to provide an understanding of the natural world?

• Organization

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Biology

• Homeostasis

What is an organism’s ability to control its internal environment to maintain conditions suitable for survival?

• Organization

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Biology

• Homeostasis

Defined as the formal statement of the tentative or expected prediction or explanation of the relationship between two or more variables in a specified population.

• Hypothesis

• Law

• Theory

• Variable

The dismissal bell rings and you pack up your belongings. In this scenario, what is the stimulus?

• The bell ringing
• You packing up your belongings
• More information is needed

Scientific theories are based on

• general assumptions of how systems work.
• mathematical principles that can be proven true.
• large amounts of data collected over time.
• observations from within only one scientific discipline.

Which of these explain how a natural phenomenon works or happens?

• theory

• law