Basic Concepts

What is the Biosphere?

• Only the atmosphere is related to the Biosphere, land and water are not included.

• The Biosphere is a place on Earth where animals and plants live without any human present.

• All living things and all places they are found on Earth.

• All insects in the forest, only.

According the ebook, Biosphere, include the following environments:

Answer explanation

Check page 4 for this question on the ebook.

Biodiversity is

• The mammals that live in the sea. It is greater in the poles. of Earth

• The organisms in the saltwater environment, but, only those focused in the equator of Earth.

• The organisms that belongs to the land environment and far from the equator of earth.

• the organisms given in a given area, and, is greater closer to the equator of Earth.

Contributions from Ancient Civilizations to Biology

• Asians use herbal medicines.

  Hippocrates taught the four humors of living bodies.

  Aristotle classified animals with red blood and without blood.

• Greeks created writing and the school.

  Chinese formulated black powder.

  Persians organized campaigns to conquer other countries.

• Egyptians build pyramids.

  Chinese formulated black powder.

• Pythagoras founded a school based on logic and critical thinking.

  Plato is called the father of the world of the ideas.

Contributions of the Scientific Revolution to Biology

(Two options are correct)

• The knowledge provided by the external observations of Greeks still is valid.

  1500´s was a great time for discoveries in science in Europe.

• Creation of a catalog for animals and plants by Romans.

  Miguel Angel draw the Vitruvian man to show the anatomy of the human body.

• During middle ages scientific knowledge grew in India and China.

  Leonardo DaVinci conducted studies in animal and human anatomy.

• Andrea Vesalius practiced dissection on corpses, contradicting the legacy of Greeks.

  Invention of the microscope in 1600´s.

Science from Industrial Revolution until Today

(Two are correct)

• Travel and communication allowed exchange of knowledge and ideas.

  Experiments of Lewis Pasteur about the origin of living organisms.

• German scientist investigation applications of Engineering in Universities during the Geek influence.

• Cell theory replaced the notion of spontaneous generation.

• The living organisms can be sustained from inorganic environments.