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35 Cards in this Set
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Nutrients |
They are raw nutrients that are needed in making complex molecules |
1. Healthy 2. Needed in your body |
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Heterotrophs |
They get their energy from digesting other organisms |
1. Eat alive and dead 2. Not homo but ____ |
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Autotrophs |
Get energy from abiotic things |
1. Bottom of ocean 2. Unusual |
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photoautotrophs |
Gets its energy from light and forms own organic compounds |
1. Word for picture 2. Trophy. |
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Photosynthesis |
A set of chemical reactions that make co2 into h2o |
1. C>>> HO 2. Death to life |
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Chemoautotrophs |
Gets energy from oxidation of inorganic things |
1. ___ therapy 2. Hydrogen sulfide |
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Chemosynthesis |
Set of chemical reactions creating organic compounds |
1. Not photosynthesis but__ 2. ___ therapy |
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Cell respiration |
Chemical reactions realeasing energy from organic compounds to do needed life functions |
1. Breathing 2. Release the Kraken |
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Producers |
Another word for autotrophs |
1. Prodeuces own food 2. The vegetable and fruit section |
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Consumers |
Another word used for heterotrophs |
1. You don't give but you___ 2. Eating food |
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Decomposers |
Gets energy and nutrients from decaying organic material |
1. What a banana does after time 2. After you die you ____ |
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Food web |
In an ecosystem, it is overlapping food chains |
1. Spiders 2. Internet or the ww___ |
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Biotic |
A living organism |
1. A ___ arm replaces a real one 2. The name of this class is in it. |
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Abiotic |
Non living organisms |
1. Opposite of another vocab term 2. A rock |
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Ecosystem |
An abiotic environment in a biological community |
1.All around us 2. Works together |
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Habitats |
Where an organism lives |
1. My house is my ____ 2. A tiger in its natural__ |
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Biosphere |
The part of the earth where life is found |
1. Has the name of this class in it 2. The shape of the earth |
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Energy |
The ability to do work |
1. That soccer game made me lose all of my ___ 2. No one has ___ on Monday |
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Chemical energy |
Energy stored in molecules |
1. Physical but _____ 2. Within something |
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Free energy |
Energy that can possibly do work |
1. Not locked up but ____ 2. Available to do |
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Heat energy |
Escaping heat from an external source |
1. Not cold but ___ 2. Summertime temperature |
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first law of thermodynamics |
Energy can't be created or destroyed but can be transferred or transformed |
1. The movie transformers 2. Bank account to bank account |
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Second law of dynamics |
Energy transfers and transformations increase the entropy in the whole universe |
1. Not the first but the ____ 2. Mrs. Cardosi's dad calls her son this |
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Entropy |
The degree of the disorganization of something |
1. Mrs. Cardosi' son 2. Me with my binder |
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Enzymes |
A protein molecule used as catalyst in biochemical reaction |
1. Used in not a dog but a ___alyst 2. muscle milk has ___ in it |
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Catalysts |
Chemicals that lower activation energy |
1. Like a cation 2. Instead of higher they___ |
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Active site |
Enzyme that attaches to substrate with weak chemical bonds
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1. Not sedentary but____
2. A web____ |
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Substrate |
The molecule that the enzyme acts on |
1. An actor 2. Subway:straight ahead |
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Metabolism |
All chemical changes that take place in organisms |
1. You can have high or low 2. Build up your____ |
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Synthesis |
The process when chemical compounds are built from smaller components by chemical reactions |
1. Synopsis 2. Big from small |
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Decomposition |
When substances break down into smaller units ( chemical) |
1. Banana after time 2. Plastic doesn't do this |
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Biosynthesis |
Formed from synthesis, makes larger, more complex biomolecules |
1. Name of the class 2. Not small but ___ |
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Oxidation |
The removal of electrons from a molecule |
1. Not adding but___ 2. Oxi clean |
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ATP |
The free energy released through oxidation. |
1. Three letters 2. Enerrgy-conservation |
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ADP |
Happens when ATP gives up a phosphate group |
1. Not take up but___ 2. Three letters |