Review Quiz #1

What is the definition of Biodiversity?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Body’s reaction to a harmless antigen

• Meat eaters/heterotroph

• The variety of species living in an ecosystem

What is Asexual Reproduction?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Involves just one parent and the offspring are identical to the parent – mitosis, budding, binary fission

• Meat eaters/heterotroph

• Building blocks of proteins

What are Carbohydrates?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Body’s reaction to a harmless antigen

• Building blocks of proteins

• Organic substance made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen -- used as an energy source for living things.

What is an Acid?

• A substance with a pH of less than seven

• Body’s reaction to a harmless antigen

• Meat eaters/heterotroph

• The variety of species living in an ecosystem

What is Active Transport?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• A movement of material across a membrane that requires energy to accomplish

• Meat eaters/heterotroph

• Building blocks of proteins

What is ATP?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Body’s reaction to a harmless antigen

• Chemical packets of energy used by the cell

• The variety of species living in an ecosystem

What are Amino Acids?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Body’s reaction to a harmless antigen

• Building blocks of proteins

• The variety of species living in an ecosystem

What are Antibodies?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Defensive proteins used by the body to bind to specific antigens and infected bodies

• Meat eaters/heterotroph

• The variety of species living in an ecosystem

What is an Allergy?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Body’s reaction to a harmless antigen

• Meat eaters/heterotroph

• The variety of species living in an ecosystem

What is Carrying Capacity?

• Non-living factors in the environment

• Body’s reaction to a harmless antigen

• Population size that an environment can sustain

• The variety of species living in an ecosystem