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7th Grade
01/16/2006

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What are the steps of the scientific method?
Definition
State problem, Gather info, form hypothesis, perform experiment, analyze data, draw conclusions (find out whether your hypothesis is supported or not, then repeat the experiment or share result if the hypothesis is supported, if not then revise the hypothesis)
Term
how can you get HIV/AIDS?
Definition
1. haveing unprotected sex with an HIV/AIDS infected person
2. sharing needles with a HIV/AIDS infected person
3. an HIV/AIDS infected mother can pass it on to her unborn baby
4. direct transfer of body fluid
Term
what happens when you get infected with HIV/AIDS?
Definition
1. your immune system shuts down.
2. all viruses you once had come back and the body can not fight them off
Term
if you have HIV/AIDS what do you die of?
Definition
the viruses your body cannot fight off
Term
who invented the first microscope?
Definition
Leeuwenhoek
Term
who discovered cells and what was he/she looking at?
Definition
a. Hooke
b. he was looking at cork and he thought the sells looked like jail cells
Term
what is the cell theory?
Definition
1. all cells come from other cells
2. all living things are made up of one or more cells
3. the cell is the most basic unit of organization in living things.
Term
what is the difference between prokaryotic & eukaryotic cells?
Definition
prokaryotic cells have no membrane-boundstructure, are in bacteria, and evolved first (remember PRO for before)
and eukaryotic cells have a membrane-bound structure, are in plants & animals, and evolved last
Term
name all the cell parts and what they do
Definition
•Cell wall (plants only)- protect the cell and form structure

•Cell membrane- protective layer around all cells, regulates what enters/exits the cell

•Cytoplasm- gelatin-like material filling cell, holds organelles in place

•Nucleus- controls all cellular actions, contains DNA

•Chloroplasts (plants)- where photosynthesis takes place

•Mitochondria- where sugar is broken down and respiration takes place

•Ribosome- where proteins are made

•ER- folded membrane that carries messages. smooth- no ribosomes. rough-ribosomes.

•Golgi bodies- sort proteins

•Vesicles- deliver cellular substances

•Vacuole- stores water

•Lysosome- digests dead cell parts
Term
what is a control group?
Definition
the group in an experiment that is the standard or that nothing happens to.
Term
what is an experimental group?
Definition
the group that the will have something done to it to prove a point.
Term
what is a variable?
Definition
something in an experiment that can change
Term
how many variables should there be and why?
Definition
a. 1 variable
b. because if there was more than one we wouldn't know which one was affecteng the experimental group.
Term
what are the 5 characteristics of life?
Definition
1. organized, made up of cells
2. reproduce
3. use energy
4.grow & develop
5. respond to stimuli
Term
needs of life
Definition
shelter & raw materials ( air, water, food, etc.)
Term
what is spontaneous generation and why did people think this?
Definition
a. the idea that living things come from nonliving things.
b. flies from meat, worms from rain, fish from mud
Term
explain Redi, Spallanzani, and
Needham's experiments.
Definition
redi- Redi put decaying meat in some jars, then covered half of them. When fly maggots appeared only on the uncovered meat, Redi concluded that they had hatched from fly eggs and had not come from the meat.

John Needham heated broth in sealed flasks. When the broth became cloudy with microorganisms, he mistakenly concluded that they developed spontaneously from the broth.

Lazzaro Spallanzani broiled broth in sealed flasks for a longer time than Needham did. Only the ones he opened became cloudy with contamination.
Term
what is biogenisis?
Definition
all things come from living things, THIS HAS BEEN PROVEN
Term
how are viruses living AND nonliving
Definition
living- infect living things, reproduce, has hereditary material (DNA/RNA)

nonliving- not cells/organized, doesn't respond to stimuli, doesn't eat, doesn't grow, needs a host to reproduce
Term
how does a cell reproduce?
Definition
1. attach tail fibers to cell
2. injects hereditary material into cell
3. takesover the cell by making copies of its self
4. releases new viruses from cell and kills cell
Term
what are the parts of a bacteriophage?
Definition
capsid, hereditary material, tail, tail fibers
Term
order from smallest to biggest the things in the body.
Definition
cell-> tissue-> organ-> organism
Term
tell about the bacteria cell
Definition
1. divide every 30 min.
2. prokaryotic
3. have a cell wall
4.have a flagellum
Term
explain the surface area to volume ratio thing.
Definition
As the ratio of the cell size grows, the surface area grows as well. If it gets too large, the cell can’t live because its surface area is too large for anything to enter it.
Term
permeability?
Definition
Permeable- being able to pass through the cell membrane
Selectively permeable- allowing only some things to pass through the cell membrane
Impermeable- allowing nothing to pass through the cell membrane
Term
diffusion?
Definition
Diffusion- the movement of molecules from high concentration to low concentration
Term
active transport?
Definition
Active transport- the movement of molecules from a low concentration to a high concentration (proteins in the cell membrane)
Term
passive transport?
Definition
Passive transport- the movement of molecules from a high concentration to a low concentration (lipids of the cell membrane)
Term
equilibrium
Definition
when everything is distributed equally
Term
osmosis
Definition
the diffusion of water through the cell membrane
Term
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Definition
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Term
mitosis
Definition
the process of division in which a cell divides to form 2 cells identical to the parent cell.
Term
meiosis
Definition
process of all cell division that takes place in reproduction organs to form sex cells
Term
Asexual reproduction
Definition
living things reproduce with only 1 parent
Term
sexual reproduction
Definition
living things reproduce with 2 parents
Term
zygote
Definition
the product of when a sperm and egg meet (awkward silence)
Term
diploid
Definition
when cells have pairs of similar chromosomes
Term
haploid
Definition
sex cells that do not have pairs of chromosomes
Term
ecology
Definition
study of the interactions that occur among all organisms and their environment
Term
biosphere
Definition
the livable parts of the Earth
Term
community
Definition
populations of all species living in an ecosystem
Term
population
Definition
group of all of the same organisms living in one area
Term
arithmetic growth and exponential growth
Definition
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Term
biotic potential
Definition
an estimate of how many of 1 species an ecosystem could support without limiting factors
Term
carrying capacity
Definition
the number of organisms an ecosystem can support including limiting factors
Term
limiting factors
Definition
•Not enough food, water, or shelter
•Weather
•disease
•Predators
Term
competition
Definition
the fight for what an organism needs
Term
habitat
Definition
where the organism lives
Term
niche
Definition
how the organism survives in it’s habitat
Term
Predator/Prey relationship
Definition
there is ALWAYS more prey than predator
Term
symbiosis
Definition
the relationship between 2 different species
Term
mutualism
Definition
all benefit
Term
commensalism
Definition
1 benefits, other not affected
Term
parasitism
Definition
1 benefits, other hurt
Term
abiotic factors
Definition
non living part of environment
•Water
•Air
•Soil
•Sunlight
•Temperature
•Elevation
•Climate
•Wind
Term
consumers
Definition
eat producers and other consumers
Term
producers
Definition
create their own food through photosynthesis
Term
water cycle
Definition
condensation, precipitation, transpiration, evaporation
Term
Nitrogen cycle
Definition
The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to organisms and to the soil and back again
Term
Carbon Cycle
Definition
how carbon transfers from the living to the nonliving world
Term
Energy pyramid
Definition
Higher at the bottom, lowest at the top

Loss of 10% energy each time you go up a level
Term
Food web-
Definition
what eats what
Term
Brackish
Definition
• salt and fresh water mix
Term
salinity
Definition
amount of salt in water
Term
plant zonation
Definition
the distribution of plant species into zones in response to some habitat condition such as salinity or moisture
Term
point source pollution
Definition
pollution from a definable place
Term
primary producers
Definition
organisms using the sun’s energy and inorganic nutrients to synthesize organic compounds
Term
secchi disk
Definition
measurer of turbidity
Term
tributaries
Definition
streams and rivers that supply larger bodies of water
Term
turbidity
Definition
the measurement of water cloudiness
Term
watershed
Definition
area if land that feeds into a body of water
Term
what states does the chesapeake bay watershed go through?
Definition
new york, new jersey, delaware, virginia, west virginia, maryland
Term
who long is the bay?
Definition
8,000
Term
in the lab, when the rain hits the land, which material went fastest?
Definition
peatmoss
Term
which one gets more water out?
Definition
peatmoss
Term
how small is a virus?
Definition
smaller than bacteria
Term
what might limit a population from increasing in its habitat?
Definition
weather, predators, disease
Term
what is the human growth curve an example of?
Definition
exponential growth
Term
competetion limits what?
Definition
population size
Term
example of mutualism and why it is mutualism
Definition
african bird and an elephant, bird eats parasites so it gets fed and elephant is protected.
Term
example of commensalism and why it is commensalism
Definition
clownfish and sea anemone, clown fish gets shelter and sea anemone doesnt care
Term
example of parasitism and why it is parasitism
Definition
dogs and their worms, worms benefit from dog while dog slowly dies
Term
predator/prey relationship
Definition
predators eat many different prey
Term
transpiration
Definition
water droplets from leaves go into clouds as gas
Term
what is the surface area to volume ratio for a cell
Definition
high surface area to volume ratio
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