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34 Cards in this Set
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Nutrients
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The components of food that help organisms grow and operate |
Food, vitamins |
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Heterotrophs
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Organisms that consume another organism for nutrition |
Eat, food chain |
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Autotrophs
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Organisms that can produce nutrition by themselves. Usually with sunlight |
Leaf, oxygen |
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Photoautotrophs
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Organisms that use light and a carbon source for nutrition |
plants, carbon |
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Photosynthesis
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The transfer from light into usable energy |
Light, sun |
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Chemoautotrophs
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Organisms that use chemicals to produce energy and nutrition |
Chemicals, vents |
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Chemosynthesis
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The process where chemicals are turned into usable nutrition |
Chemo, nutrition |
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Cell respiration
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Turning sugars into carbon dioxide and water |
Water, breathing |
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Producers
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Organisms that produce their own energy |
Plants, manufacture |
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Consumers
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Organisms that consume other organisms |
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Decomposers
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Organisms that break down dead organisms |
Crow, worm |
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Food web
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A graphical representation of who eats who |
Eating, lion |
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Biotic
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Living things |
Living. Orgamisms |
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Abiotic |
Nonliving things |
Rock, my brain while making these flashcards |
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Ecosystem |
A balanced community of living orgamisms
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Marsh, dessert |
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Habitats
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The areas a organism lives in |
City, woods |
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Biosphere
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The global sum of all ecosystems |
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Energy
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The ability to do work |
Batteries, work |
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Chemical energy
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The potential for a chemical to undergo a reaction |
Chemicals, energy |
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Free energy
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The potential energy to do work |
Not heat |
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Heat energy
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The energy turned into heat |
Oil, burner |
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First Law of Thermodynamics
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Energy cannot be created or destroyed only changed |
Matter, change |
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Second Law of Thermodynamics
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The more heat is transferred, the more is wasted |
Contacts, ohm |
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Entropy
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The lack of work, which turns into heat |
Friction |
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Enzymes
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A catalyst for chemical reactions |
Gasoline, fire |
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Active site
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The region of a enzyme where the chemical reactionundergoes |
worksite, speed |
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Substrate
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A molecule enzymes react with |
Patient, enzymes |
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Metabolism
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The ability to take nutrition and grow and reproduce cells from that |
Digestion, hyper |
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Synthesis
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To combine or create |
Make |
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Decomposition
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The way organisms break dow into simpler forms of matter |
Dead, smelly |
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Biosynthesis
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The creation of complex molecules within organisms |
Printer, robots |
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Oxidation
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The loss of electrons |
Loss |
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ATP
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The part that stores large amounts of energy |
Batter, capacitor |
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ADP |
ATP before being turned into energy |
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