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35 Cards in this Set
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Nutrients |
Raw materials used to make complex molecules |
Ex. Proteins |
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Heterotrophs |
Gets energy from living things |
Ex. Deer |
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Autotrophs |
Gets energy from non living things |
Ex. Flower |
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Photoautotrophs |
Use photosynthesis to collect energy |
Ex. Plants |
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Chemoautotrophs |
Use chemosynthesis to get energy |
Ex. Giant Tube Worm |
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Photosynthesis |
Process of converting energy from light into sugar |
Photoautotrophs use _______ to make sugar |
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Chemosynthesis |
Process of converting carbon molecules into sugar |
Chemoautotrophs use _______ to make sugar |
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Cell respiration |
Reactions used by organisms to release energy from bonds |
______ _______ is used to break chemical bonds |
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Producers |
Organisms that make their own energy. |
Autotrophs are _________ |
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Consumers |
Organisms that eat organisms for energy |
Heterotrophs are ________ |
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Decomposers |
Organisms that consume dead organisms for energy |
Ex. Worms |
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Food Web |
a "branching/intertwined" food chain |
A ___ ____ is a complex food chain |
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Biotic |
A living thing |
Ex. Cow |
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Abiotic |
a nonliving thing |
Ex. Rock |
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Ecosystem |
All abiotic & biotic factors in an area |
_______ contain habitats |
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Habitats |
Where an organism lives in an ecosystem |
There are many _____ in an ecosystem |
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Biosphere |
Every ecosystem on earth |
All ecosystems in one ________ |
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Energy |
Containable power that can be used to do work |
____ is what is used to do work Chemical energy is a form of this |
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Chemical energy |
Energy stored in bonds |
Chemical energy is energy stored in _______ |
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Free energy |
The chemical energy that does work |
The ______ _____ does the work Is not lost to the system |
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Heat energy |
Energy lost in a reaction |
Energy expended as _____ Does not do work |
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First Law of Thermodynamics |
Energy can not be destroyed or created |
Energy can not be ______ or ______ Energy can only be transfered/converted |
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Second Law of Thermodynamics |
Systems tend to increase entropy |
Systems get more _____ unless work is done on them |
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Entropy |
The degree of disorder in a system |
____ is a major part of the 2nd law |
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Enzymes |
Proteins that lower allow biochemical reactions to occur using less energy |
All ______ are catalysts |
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Catalysts |
Chemicals that lower the activation energy for reactions |
Not are ______ are enzymes |
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Active site |
Small area of an enzyme that matches with the substrate |
Certain ____ _____ fit with certain Substrates |
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Substrate |
A substance that acts with the right enzyme |
Certain active sites match certain ______ |
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Metabolism |
A physical and chemical process needed to maintain life |
_____ is needed for life |
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Synthesis |
The metabolisms building up reaction |
Opposite of decomposition ______ builds things up |
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Decomposition |
The metabolisms breaking down reaction |
Opposite of synthesis _____ breaks things down |
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Biosynthesis |
Reactions that form large complex molecules from small ones |
_____ makes complex molecules Is a type of synthesis |
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Oxidation |
Releases energy by breaking and rearranging bonds |
______ releases electrons from a molecule From of decomposition |
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ATP |
Molecule that holds the lost electrons from oxidation |
___ holds lost electrons |
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ADP |
Compound used for the flow of energy in cells |
ATP can turn into ___ if it give up a phosphate group |
