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Leaving Cert Biology Unit 1 definitions

Leaving Cert Biology Unit 1 definitions

Pregunta 1 de 56

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What is an Abiotic factor?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Study of living things (organisms)

  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together
    to form larger molecules

  • A non- living factor

  • Part(s) of earth that supports life

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 56

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What is a Carnivore?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An animal that eats both animals and plant

  • An animal that feeds on animals only

  • Basic structural unit of a living organism (that possesses its
    characteristics)

  • Chemical reactions where larger molecules are broken down
    to smaller molecules

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 56

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What is Data?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Measurements or observations or information gathered from an experiment

  • Standard for comparison

  • The ability of organisms to exist from one generation to the next

  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins
    the resource

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 56

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What is Anabolism?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Chemical reactions where larger molecules are broken down
    to smaller molecules

  • The wise management of the environment or organisms

  • The decaying of a dead organism

  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together
    to form larger molecules

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 56

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What is Egestion?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Removal of the waste products of metabolisms

  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a
    ecosystem]

  • Removal of unabsorbed material from the body

  • The conversion of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 56

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What is Biology?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.

  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows
    which is the real pill and which is the placebo

  • The wise management of the environment or organisms

  • The Study of living things (organisms)

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 56

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What is a Quantitative survey?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not

  • A survey which records or estimates the numbers of a species (in a particular
    ecosystem)

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

  • A confrontation which results in each organism getting some of the resource.

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 56

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What is nutrition?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The obtaining or making of food by living organisms

  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.

  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates

  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem)

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 56

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What is a Hypothesis?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Grazing Food
    Chain
    Feeding relationship between organisms in which energy is transferred.

  • A proven theory.

  • Educated guess based on observation.

  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans)

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 56

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What is the Biosphere?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Organisms and their (interactions with) environment.

  • Part(s) of earth that supports life.

  • (Place) where a species (or an organism) lives

  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 56

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What is a Biotic Factor?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a
    (terrestrial) ecosystem].

  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).

  • A non- living factor

  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem].

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 56

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What is Catabolism?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together to form larger molecules.

  • Removal of the waste products of metabolisms.

  • Chemical reactions where larger molecules are broken down to smaller molecules.

  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 56

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What is a Cell?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey).

  • Basic structural unit of a living organism (that possesses its characteristics).

  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

  • Common features that separate living things from non-living things (organisation, nutrition, excretion, response & reproduction)

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 56

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What is a Climatic Factor?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).

  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates

  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a
    (terrestrial) ecosystem].

  • Factors relating to long term weather conditions [which affects the distribution
    of organisms in an ecosystem].

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 56

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What is Competition?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The ability of organisms to exist from one generation to the next.

  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins the resource.

  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.

  • When 2 or more organisms fight for a resource that is in short supply.

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 56

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What is Conservation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The obtaining or making of food by living organisms.

  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.

  • Make a duplicate(s) of an experiment or procedure.

  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans).

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 56

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What is contest competition?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins
    the resource.

  • A confrontation which results in each organism getting some of the resource.

  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

  • When 2 or more organisms fight for a resource that is in short supply.

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 56

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What is the continuity of life?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.

  • The ability of organisms to exist from one generation to the next.

  • (Place) where a species (or an organism) lives.

  • Interconnected food chains.

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 56

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What is a control?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Educated guess based on observation.

  • A proven theory.

  • Standard for comparison.

  • A proven hypothesis.

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 56

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What is decomposition?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The conversion of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen

  • The decaying of a dead organism.

  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates.

  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 56

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What is denitrification?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows
    which is the real pill and which is the placebo.

  • Measurements or observations or information gathered from an experiment

  • The decaying of a dead organism

  • The conversion of nitrates into atmospheric nitrogen

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 56

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What is Double-blind testing?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Control used in drug testing.

  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows
    which is the real pill and which is the placebo.

  • The reacting of an organism to stimuli.

  • An organism which makes its own food.

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 56

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What is Ecology?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Organisms and their (interactions with) environment.

  • Educated guess based on observation.

  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits.

  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 56

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What is an Ecosystem?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The position of an organism in a food chain.

  • Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.

  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.

  • Organisms and their (interactions with) environment.

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 56

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What is an Edaphic Factor?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).

  • Factors relating to the soil [which affects the distribution of organisms in a (terrestrial) ecosystem].

  • A non- living factor.

  • Factors relating to long term weather conditions [which affects the distribution
    of organisms in an ecosystem].

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 56

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What is Excretion?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Removal of unabsorbed material from the body.

  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.

  • Removal of the waste products of metabolisms.

  • The creating of new individuals of its own kind by an organism (by either sexual or asexual means).

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 56

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What is a Food Web?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The position of an organism in a food chain.

  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

  • Feeding relationship between organisms in which energy is transferred.

  • Interconnected food chains or more than one species at each trophic level.

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 56

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What is a Grazing Food Chain?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Interconnected food chains or more than one species at each trophic level.

  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator

  • Feeding relationship between organisms in which energy is transferred.

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 56

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What is a Habitat?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Part(s) of earth that supports life.

  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.

  • (Place) where a species (or an organism) lives.

  • An organism which makes its own food.

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 56

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What is a Herbivore?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An animal that eats both animals and plants.

  • An animal that feeds on animals only.

  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

  • An animal that feeds on plants only.

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 56

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How do you define Life?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Common features that separate living things from non-living things (organisation, nutrition, excretion, response & reproduction).

  • The Study of living things (organisms).

  • Part(s) of earth that supports life.

  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 56

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What is Metabolism?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Chemical reactions where smaller molecules are joined together to form larger molecules.

  • The obtaining or making of food by living organisms.

  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.

  • All the chemical reactions taking place in living organisms.

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 56

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How do you define Niche?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates

  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator.

  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 56

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What is Nitrification?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans)

  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates.

  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.

  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem]

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 56

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What is Nitrogen fixing?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The process of converting ammonia into nitrites and/or nitrites to nitrates

  • The obtaining or making of food by living

  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.

  • The conversion of nitrogen into nitrates.

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 56

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What is an Omnivore?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Living (organism’s influence on another organism).

  • An animal that feeds on animals only.

  • An animal that feeds on plants only.

  • An animal that eats both animals and plants.

Explicación

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What is Parasitism?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.

  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans).

  • Removal of unabsorbed material from the body.

  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits.

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 56

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What is a Placebo?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.

  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

  • [Technique in which] neither the tester nor the person being tested knows
    which is the real pill and which is the placebo.

  • Control used in drug testing

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 56

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What is Pollution?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans).

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

  • An organism which makes its own food

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 56

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What is Predation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey).

  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator

  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

Explicación

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What is a Predator?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey).

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 56

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How do you describe prey?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The act of killing and eating another animal ( or organism) for food.

  • The animal hunted and killed by its predator.

  • An animal (or organism ) which kills and eats an animal (or organism or prey)

  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem]

Explicación

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What is a Primary Consumer?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A proven theory

  • An organism which makes its own food

  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

Explicación

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What is a Principle or Law?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

  • Educated guess based on observation.

  • A proven hypothesis.

  • A proven theory

Explicación

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What is a producer?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic.

  • An organism which makes its own food.

  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 56

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What is a Pyramid of Numbers?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

  • A survey which records or estimates the numbers of a species (in a particular ecosystem).

  • The position of an organism in a food chain.

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 56

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What is a Qualitative Survey?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A survey which records or estimates the numbers of a species (in a particular
    ecosystem).

  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not.

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

  • Control used in drug testing.

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 56

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What is a replicate?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

  • The creating of new individuals of its own kind by an organism (by either
    sexual or asexual means).

  • The reacting of an organism to stimuli

  • Make a duplicate(s) of an experiment or procedure

Explicación

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What is reproduction?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

  • Make a duplicate(s) of an experiment or procedure.

  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem].

  • The creating of new individuals of its own kind by an organism (by either
    sexual or asexual means).

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 56

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What is a response?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The harmful addition to the environment (by humans)

  • The numbers of a particular species [in a particular ecosystem]

  • The reacting of an organism to stimuli.

  • An organism which makes its own food

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 56

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What is scramble competition?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The wise management of the environment or organisms.

  • A confrontation which results in each organism getting some of the resource.

  • An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins
    the resource.

  • When 2 or more organisms fight for a resource that is in short supply.

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 56

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What is a Secondary Consumer?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.

  • An animal that feeds on plants only.

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 56

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What is symbiosis?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.

  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits.

  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

  • All the chemical reactions taking place in living organisms.

Explicación

Pregunta 54 de 56

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What is a Tertiary Consumer?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Relationship between (different) species in which at least one benefits

  • An organism which feeds on the primary consumer.

  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.

  • An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.

Explicación

Pregunta 55 de 56

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What is a theory?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A proven hypothesis.

  • Educated guess based on observation.

  • A proven theory.

  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

Explicación

Pregunta 56 de 56

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What is a trophic level?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The amount of organisms at each trophic level.

  • A survey which indicates if a species is present or not.

  • The position of an organism in a food chain.

  • Interconnected food chains or more than one species at each trophic level

Explicación

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