Midterm Vocab Review

Stable internal conditions (ex: body temp.)

• Metabolism
• Homeostasis
• Photosynthesis
• Cell respiration

All the reactions in your body that build/break down materials. Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration are examples of these reactions.

• Metabolism
• Homeostasis
• Photosynthesis
• Cell respiration

The reaction in living organisms that break down food for usable energy

• Metabolism
• Homeostasis
• Photosynthesis
• Cell respiration

The reaction that allows autotrophs to use solar energy to produce their own food

• Metabolism
• Homeostasis
• Photosynthesis
• Cell respiration

Covalent bonds ____ electrons between atoms

• share
• give/take

A water molecule is held together by polar covalent bonds. A polar bond is....

• ionic
• a covalent bond that shares electrons evenly
• a covalent bond that shares electrons unevenly

________________ are an attraction between the slight charges of neighboring water molecules

• covalent bond
• ionic bond
• hydrogen bond
• polar covalent bond

The combination of cohesion and adhesion used to move water through a tunnel, such as veins.

• capillary action
• density
• heat capacity
• universal solvent

The amount of energy required to break hydrogen bonds between water molecules in order to raise the temperature of water

• capillary action
• density
• heat capacity
• universal solvent

Removing a water in order to make a covalent bond

• dehydration synthesis
• hydrolysis