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Quiz sobre Leaving Cert Biology Unit 1 definitions , criado por Shona Mynes em 06-03-2016.
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Questão 1

Questão
What is an Abiotic factor?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 2

Questão
What is a Carnivore?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 3

Questão
What is Data?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 4

Questão
What is Anabolism?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 5

Questão
What is Egestion?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 6

Questão
What is Biology?
Responda
  • 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)

Questão 7

Questão
What is a Quantitative survey?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 8

Questão
What is nutrition?
Responda
  • 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)

Questão 9

Questão
What is a Hypothesis?
Responda
  • 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)

Questão 10

Questão
What is the Biosphere?
Responda
  • 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).

Questão 11

Questão
What is a Biotic Factor?
Responda
  • 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].

Questão 12

Questão
What is Catabolism?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 13

Questão
What is a Cell?
Responda
  • 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)

Questão 14

Questão
What is a Climatic Factor?
Responda
  • 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].

Questão 15

Questão
What is Competition?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 16

Questão
What is Conservation?
Responda
  • 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).

Questão 17

Questão
What is contest competition?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 18

Questão
What is the continuity of life?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 19

Questão
What is a control?
Responda
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • A proven theory.
  • Standard for comparison.
  • A proven hypothesis.

Questão 20

Questão
What is decomposition?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 21

Questão
What is denitrification?
Responda
  • [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

Questão 22

Questão
What is Double-blind testing?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 23

Questão
What is Ecology?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 24

Questão
What is an Ecosystem?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 25

Questão
What is an Edaphic Factor?
Responda
  • 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].

Questão 26

Questão
What is Excretion?
Responda
  • 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).

Questão 27

Questão
What is a Food Web?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 28

Questão
What is a Grazing Food Chain?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 29

Questão
What is a Habitat?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 30

Questão
What is a Herbivore?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 31

Questão
How do you define Life?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 32

Questão
What is Metabolism?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 33

Questão
How do you define Niche?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 34

Questão
What is Nitrification?
Responda
  • 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]

Questão 35

Questão
What is Nitrogen fixing?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 36

Questão
What is an Omnivore?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 37

Questão
What is Parasitism?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 38

Questão
What is a Placebo?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 39

Questão
What is Pollution?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 40

Questão
What is Predation?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 41

Questão
What is a Predator?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 42

Questão
How do you describe prey?
Responda
  • 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]

Questão 43

Questão
What is a Primary Consumer?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 44

Questão
What is a Principle or Law?
Responda
  • An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • A proven hypothesis.
  • A proven theory

Questão 45

Questão
What is a producer?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 46

Questão
What is a Pyramid of Numbers?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 47

Questão
What is a Qualitative Survey?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 48

Questão
What is a replicate?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 49

Questão
What is reproduction?
Responda
  • 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).

Questão 50

Questão
What is a response?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 51

Questão
What is scramble competition?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 52

Questão
What is a Secondary Consumer?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 53

Questão
What is symbiosis?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 54

Questão
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 55

Questão
What is a theory?
Responda
  • A proven hypothesis.
  • Educated guess based on observation.
  • A proven theory.
  • The functional role of an organism (in an ecosystem).

Questão 56

Questão
What is a trophic level?
Responda
  • 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

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