Living Environment Regents Review - Vocabulary Review #1

Match the following definitions

• All chemical processes in the body

• Metabolism

• Cycles to maintain homeostasis

• Dynamic Equilibrium

• A balanced state in the body

• Homeostasis

• Another way to say "Homeostasis"

• Feedback Mechanism

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Match the following definitions

• Make large molecules from small ones

• Cellular Respiration

• Absorb and carry materials to the body

• Transport

• Using nutrients for energy and growth

• Nutrition

• Remove metabolic wastes

• Synthesis

• Change energy into a usable form (ATP)

• Excretion

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Inorganic molecules are ​​ (a)   and include ​ (b)   ​, carbon dioxide, ​ (c)   and nitrogen. Organic molecules are ​ (d)   and include carbohydrates, lipids,​ (e)   and nucleic acids​

• non-living
• oxygen
• water
• living
• proteins

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Match the following complex organic molecule with its simpler building block molecule

• Amino acid

• Lipid

• Fatty acids and glycerol

• Carbohydrate

• Simple sugar

• Protein

• Nucleotide

• Nucleic Acid

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Match the following

• CO₂

• Glucose

• H₂O

• Nitrogen

• N₂

• Water

• C₆H₁₂O₆

• Carbon dioxide

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Reorder the following from smallest unit to largest

• Organ

• Organ System

• Organelle

• Cell

• Tissue

Match the following

• Contains DNA

• Nucleus

• Does cellular Respiration; energy

• Cell Membrane

• Synthesize (build) proteins

• Ribosomes

• Controls what enters and leaves cell

• Chloroplast

• Carries out photosynthesis

• Mitochondria

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​ (a)   are self feeders that use ​ (b)   materials from the environment such as ​ (c)   and synthesize ​ (d)   materials for their own purposes such as ​ (e)   .

• Autotrophs
• inorganic
• carbon dioxide
• organic
• glucose
• Heterotrophs
• Carnivores

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​ (a)   must consume (eat) other ​ (b)   in order to get nutrients they need to live. Examples of heterotrophs are ​ (c)   and fungus.

• Heterotrophs
• organisms
• animals
• plants
• algae
• Autotroph

Match the following

• consuming others

• Heterotrophic

• making its own food

• Synthesize

• build a molecule

• Autotrophic

• living

• Biotic

• non-living

• Abiotic

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